A 100 years of the Self-Respect Movement in Tamil Nadu
This year marks the centenary of the Self-Respect Movement, which changed the course of the political discourse in Tamil Nadu. Though the movement was recorded to have started in 1925, historians contend it did not possess a singular moment of origin. V. Geetha and S.V. Rajadurai, in their book, Towards a Non-Brahmin Millennium (From Iyothee Thass to Periyar), write: “The Self-Respect Movement comes to us, as it were, in process, as an ideological impulse, an energetic mobilising of men and women across castes and classes, a vision of a society
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