Periyar E. V. Ramasamy and social reform: Difference between revisions

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'''[[Periyar E. V. Ramasamy]]'''<ref>[http://www.periyar.org/html/ap_bios_eng1.asp A biographical sketch] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050710000455/http://www.periyar.org/html/ap_bios_eng1.asp |date=2005-07-10 }}</ref> ({{lang-ta|பெரியார்}}) (17 September 1879&nbsp;– 24 December 1973), also known as '''Ramaswami''', '''EVR''', '''Thanthai Periyar''', or '''Periyar''', was a [[Dravidian peoples|Dravidian]] [[social reformer]] and politician from [[India]], who founded the [[Self-Respect Movement]] and [[Dravidar Kazhagam]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Political Ideas in Modern India: thematic explorations |author1=Thomas Pantham |author2=Vrajendra Raj Mehta |author3=Vrjendra Raj Mehta |year= 2006|publisher=Sage Publications|isbn=0761934200|url= https://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0761934200&id=KJejtAaonsEC&pg=PA48&lpg=PA48&dq=%22Self-respect+movement%22&ie=ISO-8859-1&output=html&sig=2MFf1OTrHpydPFBq6ZS4SdlaHjs}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Political Theory and Political Thought |author= N.D. Arora/S.S. Awasthy|isbn=8124111642|url= https://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN8124111642&id=szBpnYfmH0cC&pg=PA425&lpg=PA425&dq=%22Self-respect+movement%22&ie=ISO-8859-1&output=html&sig=zyuKCxtk4jFplHL8Y_JeaiDUb94}}</ref><ref name="Thakurta-1">Thakurta, Paranjoy Guha and Shankar Raghuraman (2004) ''A Time of Coalitions: Divided We Stand'', Sage Publications. New Delhi, p. 230.</ref> He wanted thinking people to realize that their society was far from perfect and that it is in urgent need of reform. Periyar wanted the Government, the political parties and social workers to identify the evils in society and boldly adopt measures to remove them.<ref name="Gopalakrishnan-12">Gopalakrishnan, ''Periyar: Father of the Tamil race'', p. 66.</ref>