ProtestMadras State (Congress era)
Sankaralinganar fasts to death for renaming the state Tamil Nadu
Gandhian Sankaralinganar began a fast in Virudhunagar demanding that Madras State be renamed Tamil Nadu and died after 76 days.
On 27 July 1956 the Gandhian activist Sankaralinganar began a hunger strike in Virudhunagar with twelve demands, the foremost being the renaming of Madras State as Tamil Nadu. He continued despite appeals from political leaders and was later moved to hospital in Madurai. He died on 13 October 1956 after 76 days of fasting. His death strengthened the renaming demand, which was finally met in 1969.
