Immanuvel Sekaran

Immanuvel Devendrar (9 October 1924 – 11 September 1957), who later took the name Immanuel Sekaran, was a civil rights activist, former soldier and a party worker for the Indian National Congress in Tamil Nadu, India.

Politics He took part in the Quit India movement from the age of 18 and was imprisoned for three months because of it. In 1945, he enlisted in the British army and, upon his discharge, he returned to his native Ramanathapuram district to work for the Indian National Congress party (INC). His time in the army had caused him to question the oppression of the Pallar caste in his district, which was particularly alarming.

Sekaran worked to improve the education, rights and representation of the Devendra's/Pallars. He tried to mobilise them to demand equality. The INC saw him as a useful opposition to Mottaya Kudumbar, T.V Sasivarna Thevar, velu Kudumbar who had defected from the party to join the Forward Bloc.

Thevar was accused and responsible for the death. Thevar was in fact arrested but later released without charge.