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PERIYAR E. V. RAMASAMY - THE REVOLUTIONARY SOCIAL REFORMER
Periyar Ramasamy was known as the Voltaire of South India. He was atheist, social reformer, rationalist, prolific writer, effective speaker and an original thinker. He worked for downtrodden people. He started self-respect movement, Anti-Hindi agitation. He opposed the caste system of India. Thandai...
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Indian Streams Research Journal
2013
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| Online Access: | http://10.26.1.76/ks/005392.pdf |
| Summary: | Periyar Ramasamy was known as the Voltaire of South India. He was atheist,
social reformer, rationalist, prolific writer, effective speaker and an original thinker. He
worked for downtrodden people. He started self-respect movement, Anti-Hindi
agitation. He opposed the caste system of India. Thandai Periyar was a crusader for
social justice. He was born in an affluent family on 17th September 1879 at Erode in
Tamil Nadu State. His father was Venkatappa (Naicker) a rich popular merchant and his
mother was Chinathayammal. His school career ended within five years. He entered his
father's trade. His parents were deeply religions and they frequently arranged religion
discourses with great devotion, even in his early teens Ramasamy displayed a keen
rationalistic tendency and ridiculed the pundits who gave the talks by pointing out the
contradiction in their statements and also their incredible exaggerating. He married
Nagammai, aged 13 he reformed his orthodox wife and sowed rationalistic views in her
mind. He became the father of a female child, who expired within five months and
thereafter had no children. He undertook “renunciation” of family because of the harsh
reprimand of his father. He went first to Vijayawada in Andhra State. Then he proceeded
to Hyderabad and Kolkatta |
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| Physical Description: | Volume 3, Issue. 2, March. 2013 |