When Nehru wanted Periyar to be kept in a mental health facility for his vitriolic views on Brahmins
Uneven as a group of articles must be, Pillai crowds his canvas with all the main types that make history, with a thread of iconoclasm running through it
A 'history' of South India fails to focus on its subject, relies too much on colonial accounts and makes astounding claims on Periyar and Valmiki
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