Before segregation of South Indian states on linguistic basis, regions like Tirupathi, Bangalore, Kolar, Malabar etc were part of the erst while Madras state. Areas like Tirupathi were considered as traditional Tamil areas in those days. Balaji temple in Tirupathi has ninety percentage tamil inscriptions. Since at the time of segregation, those areas went into the hands of other language people as they were more. In Bangalore, during segregation, Tamils were majority in the cantonment area where as kannadigas majority in Bangalore rural area. Since rural Kannadigas outnumbered cantonment area Tamils, Bangalore went to Karnataka. Same with areas like Kolar also. And today every body knew the status of Tamils and Tamil language in Bangalore, not to say about other parts of Karnataka.. During reorganisation of states on language basis, Tamils were the people to lose much to others such that even today Tamil Nadu has no habit of celebrating state formation day as like the other three south Indian states. Many tamils lost their life in relation to border dispute in those days. Even after the segregation of other states on language basis from erst while Madras province, congress rulers refused to rename the left out part as 'Tamil Nadu'. In demand for the change, one Sankaralinga Nadar, who himself a congress man, went on fast for seventy days and died. Even after his death, congress party did'nt relent.All these events made Tamil people and intellectuals to suspect that congress
