Perumal Pillai Subramoniam, known in common parlance as P.S. Moni was born on 7th February, 1916 in a respectable and well known family of Ramavarmapuram in the town of Nagercoil. His father, S. Perumal Pillai Was an engineering government contractor and his mother Anandammal was a member of a respectable family from Kulasekaranputhur, a hamlet in the vicinity of Nagercoil town, at about a distance of five kilo meters from the town. Perumal Pillai was a member of the family settled. In a village called Biimaneri from Tirunelveli, sometimes in the past. Such a belief exists among the members of a number of Vellala families of the Kanyakumari District that their families are the descendants of immigrants from the Tirunelveli District.

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