Periyar’s Self Respect Movement

COLLECTIVE march AND COOPERATION ASSIGNMNET PERIYARS SELF RESPECT bowel motility SUBMITTED TO Prof. Sony Pellissery SUBMITTED BY Ashish Chaturvedi (29042) Avinash Dwarapu (29014) INSTITUTE OF RURAL oversight ANAND 2008 egotism Respect motion was galvanizeed by E. V Ramasamy Naicker. He was popularly know as Thanthai Periyar. This relocation was intended to show tally rights to non brahmin cacuminal castes in Tamil Nadu. All through his life, Periyar fought a succeedst Brahmin domination. E. V Ramasamy Naicker was born on eighteenth November in 1879.He was born in a rich high tier family. He was a normal put one across in e real instrument. He left wing school at an early mount up of twelve and joined his fathers business. He got married to Nagammai at the age of nineteen and started handling his fathers business after his fathers death. Very soon, he became well inform with the business. Periyar later entered politics. Periyar entered the public sen mnt with the governance of Madras Presidency Association in 1917. It is in this place that his convictions and ideals were strengthened. He was known for pickings ecisions on his own without the influence or pressure from others. At this time he showed some affiliation towards the congress subdivisiony. He found the ideals of Congress fellowship such(prenominal) as removal of untouchability, prohibition, improvement in the condition of plenty similar to his ideology. He joined congress in 1919. He became a staunch follower of Gandhian principles. In 1920 Gandhiji started the non cooperation effort. Periyar closed down his all sale business for the example and as well as in order to fully melt down for the congress.His commendable work during the Temperance Movement and Khalar Movement and also the Vaikom satyagraha make him very popular. He was given the title of Vaikom Veerar (Vaikom Hero). late Periyar started loosing faith in the principles of congress party, because he felt that so me leaders in the party itself were trying to spread differences establish upon community. He was also in competition to Gandhis and Nehrus meaning of granting immunity. Gandhis meaning of freedom had a phantasmal attachment to it, which Periyar never agreed upon.Nehru freedom depart be achieved only when we will be free from the clutches of the British. moreover periyar felt that true freedom means when one is free from all inequalities and everyone is the aforementioned(prenominal) in all conditions. This loss of faith in the principles of Congress, forced him to leave congress. unconnected from this he was also very in a bad stylus(p) by the inequalities present in the society. He realized that the stop number furcatees (the Brahmins) were the briny hatful who were propagating the inequalities. Incidents such as Kashi yatra and Vaikom were the seeds for egotism look on movement.Periyar at the age of 25 went Varanasi because it was believed to be a very holy place. W hen he went there he noticed that Brahmins were world given better give-and-take. Periyar being a non Brahmin was not given some(prenominal) food. He was also not allowed to unrecorded in the hostel because it was meant for the Brahmins. This experience made him altogether against Hinduism. The other event that wound him more than the previous was that which happened in Vaikom in Kerala. At Vaikom, the lower caste state were not even allowed to walk or pass through the streets where there were temples.These incidents unfeignedly frustrated Periyar and he decided to start a movement against these well-disposed evils that treat mass irrationally on the pedestal of the caste they took birth in. He was completely dejected to be a part of the kindly structure where one class of quite a little claimed to be superior to others. Periyar belonged to upper class and an sparingally well-off family so in real terms he was not being affected by the situation. Hence he entered as a n immaterial agent in the whole scene to stand with these population and motivate them to bear their voices against the age old exploitations.His extra-rational intentions to start this movement were to completely eradicate untouchability and to establish a united society based on brotherhood and sisterhood. The incidents of exploitation and ill treatment to the indisposed classes kept on mental synthesis the frustration amongst the neglected masses entirely the major incidents the likes of Vaikom episode instigated volume to rise against these exploitations. This incident can buoy be looked from the convergence approach where frustration and impetus keeps on building, until a collective fill is activated by an incident.This period was very the time of social unrest because it was the time when the individual action was getting modify into a collective action. The first Self Respect Conference was organized on 17th and 18th February Chegalpattu, Tamil Nadu where the main agendas related to tackling the situation of inequality were discussed. more than than six thousand common masses attended this conference basically to gain some insights regarding the social equality, social evils and ways of overcoming the forces of exploitation.Two more conferences took place in 1930 and 1931 with the common aim to make people realize the need for a movement to fight against all odds and request equality. It was actually after the conference of 1931 that the Self Respect Movement gained momentum and people started realizing that caste differences should never be encouraged. They started to relish that there should be equality in terms of social and economical considerations. The social service rendered by Periyar thus helped in the liberation nd upliftment of the neglected masses and brought them into the mainstream of National Life. Through this movement, Periyar wanted to irradiate the people by uprooting their ignorance. He utilise public forums to giv e liveryes and instigate people to bring about change in the institutions and values that lead to meaningless divisions and inequitable discriminations. He stuck to non-violence methods such as speech and other similar propagandas. He certified people to change according to the requirements of the ever-changing times and keep pace with the newfangled conditions.Periyar was of the opinion that everyone in politics was march to turn dishonest and betray the cause he is working for. So he tried his best to keep governmental service and social service discontinue and kept away from politics completely. The Dravid Kazhagam party to which he belonged was also a social party and not a policy-making one. Later, the political parties DMK and AIDMK were the offshoots of the Dravid Kazhagam party that still tamp down some similar ideologies of bringing economic and social equality in the society.This movement resulted in the change in the way people thought. Periyar was able to create this wakening among the people who had, for generations, got used to a get over position. They started recognising the importance of sending their children to school and demanding equal rights and status. The important results of the movement were self-respect for the backward classes, reduction in the domination by Brahmins, social reform, economic equality to the backward classes, eradication of caste, removal of caste names. in that respect were some other achievements that were not downstairs the agenda of the movement in the first but were achieved during the course of this movement like upliftment and equal rights for women and inter-caste marriages. The laudable social turn up that has been achieved now in Tamil Nadu can be attributed to the Self-Respect Movement and the untiring propaganda conducted by Periyar over the years. References 1. Social movements in India- Rao, M. S. A 2. A research musical theme by Louis Antony (http//snphilosophers2005. tripod. com/louis. pdf) 3. http//www. thanthaiperiyar. org/political-career/self-respect-movement/