The Arunattu Vellalar are a Tamil-speaking agrarian community predominantly found in Tamil Nadu, India.
The term "Arunattu" signifies their ancestral origins tied to specific regions in Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu.
[1][2] The earliest occurrence of the term Velaalar (வேளாளர்) in Sangam literature is in Paripadal where it is used in the sense of a landowner.
[8] The Arunattu Vellalar trace their roots to Tamil society's feudal agrarian system.
[9] They are concentrated in Tiruchirappalli district, parts of Namakkal, Salem, Chennai, Coimbatore and Dindigul districts of Tamil Nadu and have spread across Tirupati of Andhra Pradesh, Sri Lanka, Malaysia and Singapore.