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How have the Dravidian movement, the Dalit movement led by Ambedkar and his successors, the Communist movement, and the Hindutva movement articulated by the RSS and the BJP each engaged with caste?
The Dravidian Movement used novels, plays, films and even politics to spread its ideology
Although the state of Tamil Nadu has been long rooted in the politics of self-respect, caste boundaries still shape social relations
Dravidianism developed as a challenge against the Aryan-supremacist and Hindu nationalist trends of India’s early nationalist movement. It continues to challenge Hindutva’s Vedic supremacist concepts
How Periyar and the Self-Respect Movement took shape in Tamil Nadu and why the state has done better than the rest of the country on many social, civil and public parameters
As Hindutva ideology reshapes political narratives across much of India, Tamil Nadu is emerging as a key battleground
When Nehru wanted Periyar to be kept in a mental health facility for his vitriolic views on Brahmins
After a hundred years, what has happened to the idea of self-respect in contemporary Tamil society?
Self-respect marriage remains a force of socio-political change even a century later
The Dravidian movement waged an ideological war against the devadasi system. As former devadasis lead a new wave of resistance, the practice is quietly sustained by caste, poverty, superstition and inherited ritual
Hope Bihar can once again be that impossibly noisy village in Phanishwar Nath Renu’s Parti Parikatha—divided, yes, but still capable of insisting that rights are not favours and development is more than a slogan shouted from a stage
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