I express convictions! I must mention here that our family which was a great devotee of EVR has been following his self respect marriages (though as a rebel, I opted for a total Vedic wedding). Ramaswamy Naicker, E. Sa. Kerala Given all this, why is he being heralded as a great thinker by the Dravidian intellectuals? Periyars atheism was crude and obnoxious. Unlike B.R. His so-called research on the. So contemporary rationalism is more an after thought to defend actions that covered ones frustrations and hide personal ambitions. As he played gross games with his wife and succeeded, so he preserved with them in public life too. By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. Based on the committees finding that the dam was structurally and hydrologically safe, the court, in May 2014, struck down Keralas Act and allowed Tamil Nadu to maintain the level at 142 feet. EVRs desire for instant stardom in Congress was not achieved because of Leaders like Sathyamurthy and some other Brahmins who ran the party. P.A. The reason is simple. On the employment front, the total number of Brahmin gazetted officers were 620 in 1928. In the event of a dam failure, it would result in unfathomable human tragedy and submitted a case for decommissioning the dam, in whose place a new dam could be built to cater to Tamil Nadu's water needs. What made him what he was. He was forcibly married to a very pious girl with that fond typical South Indian belief that marriage cures all kinds of vagabounds and eccentric young men. EVR worked meticulously to break the moral shackles around him. The dharma of India is the dharma of criminal tribes. In 1921, during the anti-liquor campaign he cut down 1000 coconut trees in his own farm. In his love for English, he attacked Tamil culture including Tamil language, the Temples of Tamilnadu, the beliefs of Hindus, and attacked both Brahmins and Dalits on vulgar terms. He was a religious man and his songs often spoke of how he was chosen by god to lead the people to a better life. A devotee of Mahaperiyava, he would visit him whenever work permitted but all his decisions centred on the grace of Mahaperiyava. I am not able to remember where I read or heard that. There is also a National park which is known as the Periyar National Park in Thekkady located around the reservoir of dam. Of course, adept at manufacturing reasons for his objections to Sathyamurthy entering temple, Congressman EVR later staged a satyagraha on the streets leading to Vaikom temple in Kerala with his wife. Nowhere did EVR or EVRs protges condemned the upper castes of Chettiars, Nayakars, Reddiars, Mudaliars, Gounders, etc and their domination in social sphere. In the intervening years, Madras had a Brahmin chief minister for only four years (including the uncertain years between 1952 and 1954). The committee recommended raising the level to 142 feet, which was endorsed by the Supreme Court in February 2006. Tamil Nadu today) in 1931 was, of the population were graduating from these colleges. So is the new twist to Brahmanism as opposed to Brahmins. Note: This article was corrected on September 22, 2017, to state that reservations were first introduced in Tamil Nadu in 1927 with the support of the Swarajya Party, not the Justice Party as was stated earlier. As was usual with Dravidian politics, this focus and obsession of statues ironically began as an anti idol movement to reason out faith and beliefs of Hinduism to pamper to Islamic and Christian fundamentalists and as admiration of anything western. Hate had powers to attract mass attention and history shows hate can over throw powers and establishments as people mislead to misread it as revolution of love. (Tamil Brahmans: The Making of a Middle Class, Fuller and Narasimhan, 2014, appendix). EVR excercised selective hatred based on his personal experiences and remained and died as one. Baker, 1976, p. 46). WebOn 9 July, 1949, a 70-year-old Periyar, E V Ramasamy, married the 32-year-old Maniammai. Because of fundamental confusions in the logic of Dravidian politics, those anti Idol cries lead ironically to a huge spurt in grotesque statues across Tamilnadu which are seriously now believed to have lives, garlanded and worshipped proving existence of some recoil reverse effect to deliver what the opposite of rationalism that Dravidian politics claimed and propagated for decades. Their snakes dont have venom but the Tamil snakes do. Design of a new dam by He spent his long life tirelessly working in support of what he believed in and against what he detested. He was the angry man spewing vitriolic hate against society, blaming, abusing, mocking, vulgarising Tamils. The publicly read out marriage agreement became a superficial drama and in the melee, neither of the couple ever meant what they read out as an oath. It is like asking whether you hate thievery or the thief. Overall, there were about 15,000 Brahmins out of about 80,000 government employees (, Political Career of E.V. The total number of students in both the arts and professional colleges was around 3,000 in 1890 (. This politics has now amplified into construction of memorials across the state with tax payers money running into 100s of crores. There is a good chance that it is true. Apart from occupying public spaces and wasting enormous money that bring in no returns, they are analogous to the posters and banners that get erected. As I had defined and amplified in an earlier article, a great mind is one that influences a period of time. Similarly, while it is true that Periyar did agitate in 1951 when the Madras high court struck down the orders on reservation and the Government of Madras subsequently lost its appeal with the Supreme Court it was on the recommendations of the Congress Government of Madras and on consideration of the need for removing man-made equalities (in Granville Austins words) that the Nehru dispensation brought in the First Amendment to the Indian Constitution. EVR advocated Nazi-style anti-Brahminism. The total number of students in both the arts and professional colleges was around 3,000 in 1890 (The Politics of South India, C.J. No political party in India was exception to this rule but dynastic, Sychophantic parties went top gear installing ugly, disproportionately formed insulting ugly specimens as life like statues which exposed the hypocrisy of their intentions and the poor skill of the sculptors. M. Karunanidhi (front row, third from left) and Periyar (fourth). Viswanathan, 1983, p. 126). Leaks and leaching are also concerning, as the methods and materials used during construction are considered outdated, compared to the current building standards, it said. If that is what Rajinikanth has done, then it IS a big deal. The dam became a reality nine years later. He accused Ambedkar for selling himself to the Brahmins: The Brahmins had paid him a price. With a totally upper class bourgeois arrogance EVR had no compassion for the Dalits. Furnel, Inc. is dedicated to providing our customers with the highest quality products and services in a timely manner at a competitive price. EVR desired a free, no holds barred, condition free exciting life. What he said in cooler moments rare though they were are also available. EVR petitioned to the Raj to consider a separate South Indian Dravidian state if India was to be divided as a Hindu India and a Muslim nation. This would mean that around 4,500 students would have had to be passing out every year in the 1930s. Supreme Court last week considered a public interest litigation petition filed by a Kerala physician and two former local body representatives on the The Dravidian landscape, on the other hand, is an arid desert, and Periyar was the only cactus plant to have bloomed in it. Three shutters of the They involve different types of recognition, such as Speaking truth to power requires allies like you. The price is this: he asked for 10% reservation and they gave him 15%. Now it is known plainly as Poondi reservoir. And that an image of Lord Rama cutout in wood was set afire at the end of the parade. His followers never questioned him and he wont brook any such nonsense. Scholars like Christian Devaneya Pavanar helped further this with all kinds of defences and interpretations. In 2017 he called supporting DMK (in 1996) a political accident. The Jews are only interested in themselves, and nobody else. Thank God none of them ever blessed the newly married couple that they should ever live life as they did. EVR went hammer and tongs on CNA for his decision as was usual with him. But despite aging, EVRs habits and philistine life continued. Long story short, Rajinikanth mixed up the gods who got beaten with chappals and the gods who were paraded naked. Let's begin with the obvious question. Periyar was a anti-national personality. He campaigned the Aryan invasion theory and stated that Dravidians(south indians) are the real Indian and Sathyamurthy led Congress to victory in the Provincial elections in 1937 & became Mayor of Madras in 1939. Madurai: The The Madras high court on Wednesday directed the state government to consider a representation which sought to remove the false information in The water supplied from it through a tunnel to the water-scarce southern region of Tamil Nadu, especially the Vaigai basin, would be the lifeline for farmers of Theni, Dindigul, Madurai, Sivaganga and Ramanathapuram districts. The Chase Law Group, LLC | 1447 York Road, Suite 505 | Lutherville, MD 21093 | (410) 790-4003, Easements and Related Real Property Agreements. The Kerala Government, a respondent, argued for lowering the full reservoir level to 139 feet as the ageing dam was in a deteriorating condition. This then gives us two options. Great post, thank you so much for sharing this here. French Revolution was a singular example. Am aware that girl students in hostels run by the Dravidar Kazhagam trust in Tamilnadu provide nutritionless tastless food to girl students despite collecting huge fees. The decision to marry a girl fifty years younger to him exposed the hypocrisy of Dravida Kazhagam and his supporters realised that a storm of fury was blowing within. The Dutch loot - Part Two of European colonialism, EVR Periyar: A checkup on facts & propaganda. Soon, roads were renamed, portraits unveiled, housing colonies were to be named after politicians in Tamilnadu. Well this image clearly says the Opinion about the reservation of B.R. Ambedkar. His idea for reservation was not but later the politicians for the The Tamil Brahmins started migrating to cities both within the Tamil land and without whereas an overwhelming majority of them had been living in villages at the dawn of the 20th century. The acts of sending email to this website or viewing information from this website do not create an attorney-client relationship. Their land holdings dwindled to almost nothing as they had to sell them off to get higher quality education. UNESCO Debating may be popular on prime time but Dravidian politicians and supporters hate it. It is hilarious that many Dalit parties and Communists claim that EVR toiled for them. When 44 Dalits were massacred by non brahmin upper castes in Keezhavenmeni, he chose to be tactfully remain quiet. His words: India should never go anywhere near democratic principles. EVR was against higher education as he felt cheap labour would become unavailable then. Claims that he was friendly with Brahmins including Rajaji were eye wash. He was miffed that the Constitution did not provide reservations for non-Brahmins. The seeds were sown by the upper class elitist but anti brahmin Justice party which competed with Congress to solicit favours from the British. He objected to government favouring Muslims and it was only the Christians, he seems to have spared. , C.J. B R Ambedkar mocked and called Aryan Invasion an invention. There is no doubt that in the late 19th century and early 20th century, Brahmins dominated the educational scene in the state. Thomas, decided that the level had to be brought down from the full reservoir level of 152 feet to 136 feet to enable Tamil Nadu, which owns and maintains it, to carry out dam strengthening works. Brahmins had successfully resisted foreign rule for a thousand years and were considered custodians of Hindu culture. I had answered. NO ! , UNESCO ie) United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization did not credit EV Ramasamy with any award titled The Socrates of In his last ever speech, on December 19, 1973, he spoke that he had been striving for long to annihilate god, religion, the Congress, Gandhi and the Brahmin. Actor Rajinikanth said he refuses to apologise to those who are protesting his controversial remark on Periyar. How will their rule set right our country? (Periyars writings compiled by Pasu. However, this seems confused in hindsight. However, he. HOME; INTERIORS; EXTERIORS; OFFICE & PORTRAITS; PUBLICITY/EVENTS; CONSTRUCTION; INFO Ramasamy writing in his magazine Kudiyarasu, and he is being unusually mild here. Their snakes dont have venom but the Tamil snakes do. Overall, there were about 15,000 Brahmins out of about 80,000 government employees (Political Career of E.V. He then did NOT enter electoral politics. He mocked blouse wearing Dalit women as responsible for increase in the cost of clothes. Periyar, : So long as democracy exists, the honest will have no other option except to fade away, giving the dishonest room to dance around. In 1919, Sathyamurthy was selected by Congress Party as one of the representatives to the Joint Parliamentary Committee of the UK to protest against Rowlatt Act and Montagu Chelmsford reforms. Later, he declared that his organisation, Dravida Kazhagam will ever never aspire for power. The court will hear the case again on November 11. Their flowers were less fragrant than the flowers of Tamil Nadu. But as Granville Austin writes in his seminal book, (1999), After the Congress eclipsed the Justice party in the 1937 elections and later, it made compulsory discrimination very much its own policy even while led by Tamil Brahmins like [Chakravarti] Rajagopalachari., Periyar was clear that he was against Brahmins, not Brahminism. If you do not have an account please register and login to post comments. And this brings us to the next question. It was constructed The population of the presidency of Madras (a.k.a. Welcome! Ramaswamy was a great social reformer. At times, Periyar issued blood-curdling threats to Brahmins, but in action he did not believe in violence. He said, without so much as a pause, that Gandhi was killed by Brahmins because Gandhi was turning into a Periyar himself! All rights reserved. The Curse of Congress & Why it is AntiIndian! You should consult with an attorney licensed to practice in your jurisdiction before relying upon any of the information presented here. Happens when UN agencies are filled with evangelists and fundamentalists trying to remove diversities in culture in the name of protection. Certain parts of this website require Javascript to work. The national intellectual landscape is verdant. Their piousness and personal discipline irritated problem child EVR and he revolted. He wanted the British to continue to remain in power while simultaneously complaining that they were succumbing to the machinations of the Brahmins. At Furnel, Inc. we understand that your projects deserve significant time and dedication to meet our highest standard of quality and commitment. In the course of his life he divided races as Aryan and Dravidian, Tamils and non Tamils, Brahmins and non Brahmins, South Indians and North Indians, the elitist rich and the condemned labour, superstitious Hindus and Other religions. EVR hated communists to the core. But Kerala passed a law the Kerala Irrigation and Water Conservation (Amendment) Act, 2006, to prevent the neighboring State (TN) from raising the water level beyond 136 feet. The problem with Periyar was that he used his bludgeon only against the Brahmins while the oppressing classes belonged to a wider spectrum. Even in 1943, he called Communists a sugar coated poison as he thought Communists were threat to his bourgeois life. To those foreign to Indian political system, lets clarify that Congress in India is a political party and not some representative or democratic parliament as it was elsewhere. When Brahmin Sathyamurthy led Congress entered the famous Madurai Meenakshi Temple with Dalits, EVR objected. Water woes: The 2018 floods in Kerala and the erratic monsoons have put the 126-year-old dam in the spotlight. Politicising of tamil language began with the unveiling of statues on the Marina beach. Effigies and posters of Vishnu, Shiva, Parvathi, Ayyappa and other smaller Gods were paraded naked, and shown having sexual communion. It says it is taking steps to complete the remaining works to strengthen the dam, including those meant for the baby dam, situated alongside the main dam, for which clearances from the Kerala and Central Governments are required. Is there any sources for this or is it a legend? A series of tremors felt in the area in 2011 caused alarm. We offer full engineering support and work with the best and most updated software programs for design SolidWorks and Mastercam. The Tamil Brahmins started migrating to cities both within the Tamil land and without whereas an overwhelming majority of them had been living in villages at the dawn of the 20th century. Tamilnadu is limited by the filmi world and is not in a state to work out the mind beyond Kollywood factory. Yet, he was a die-hard devotee of Periyar. The only flowers. His parents were pious, morally upright and hereditarily wealthy. EVR the Congressman left after a short period as he also faced strong leadership in the party in Sathyamurthy and opportunities for office missing and despite the Assembly honouring him as Vaikom Veerar in an effort to please him. At Furnel, Inc. our goal is to find new ways to support our customers with innovative design concepts thus reducing costs and increasing product quality and reliability. Another case in point followed in 1968, when, in Tanjore district, 44 Dalits were butchered by the goons of a landlord. Subscribe To Our Daily Newsletter And Get News Delivered Straight To Your Inbox. Copyright 2023, THG PUBLISHING PVT LTD. or its affiliated companies. Having been limited by Congress stalwarts who were Brahmins he remembered the tricks of the Anti brahmin Justice Party and decided to adopt their modus operandi. He once sent sent his close friends to ogle and tease his wife while she was on a visit to a temple and succeeded in impressing her later that going to temples was unsafe for her as temples are filled with rogues and mischief makers. Tamil film actor Rajinikanth has courted controversy with his remark that at a rally in Salem district in 1971, attended by Dravidar Kazhagam (DK) founder Periyar E.V. What the whites aspired for was being done from within, destruction catalysed on a vibrant culture and so the Christian dominated UNESCO honoured EVR with an award in 1970 turning Nelsons eye to the fact that racism was banned by United Nations. They were arrogant, casteist and possessed a general contempt for the unwashed millions, and even the washed others. Nations that have no trace of human rights yet this hypocrisy called United Nations continues to exist as the biggest Tamasha on the planet. Thus, [my stand is] Brahminism grew out of the Brahmin and I am striving to annihilate the root. The Maharaja of Travancore signed a 999-year Periyar Lake lease agreement with the British government on October 29, 1886, for the construction of the Mullaperiyar Case in point, superstar Chief Minister MG Ramachandran. Colleges swarmed with them. Earlier Chief Minister CN Annadurai had unveiled statue of Film artist NS Krishnan. At the same time, Periyar was also paranoid that democracy would result in Brahmins completely taking over the reins of the government. Yet, he tweeted against Rajinikanth's statements, saying, "Periyar should be kept at the highest pedestal and respected.". Their land holdings dwindled to almost nothing as they had to sell them off to get higher quality education. The listing of verdicts, settlements, and other case results is not a guarantee or prediction of the outcome of any other claims. Does someone have any link proving it or stating that it is a folklore. Periyar breaks Murthis of Ganesha (1953) Remember UNHRC has as its members China, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Cuba, etc. The effigies of Rama and Seetha were fully clothed. Our dharmic civilisation is important than any individual or any group. Unfortunately, Periyar and his disciples could not look at the problem from this perspective. No, but he mixed up the details. EVR soon realised that as long as he stayed in Congress he cannot divide the castes and religions. His later joining the Congress party was because of his belief that political connections will further his fun life. Between 1949 and 1967, the former being the year his disciple Annadurai broke away from him and formed his own party and the latter being the year he formed the first non-Congress government, Periyars harshest abuses were reserved for his former disciples. Though he was personally liked by almost all political leaders, almost all of them considered him to be maverick, unrestrained and irresponsible. Tokenism was the key mantra. A temple has been built for atheist Karunanidhi near Gudiyatham by DMK cadre. We have migrated to a new commenting platform. This is what the DMK and the AIADMK think. He adds that in 1927, a Staff Selection Board had to select 467 persons. Even the most advanced digital propagandist tools can never harm ideas that are rounded and complete. C. Rajagopalachari was another tall brahmin leader whom EVR envied. Recently it has come to light that UNESCORTED did not give him any award but it was given by UNESCO MANRAM which was formed by ANBAZAGAN DMK brother .Please remove the relevant para. The dravidian parties like DMK, DK, ADMK follow the idealogies of Periyar and that is why a lot of problems occur in TN for a long time. Returning to his pet theory of hate of Brahmins, EVR conceived the Aryan invasion theory, Lemuria continent, Kumarikandam, etc to provide an intelligent scholastic interpretation to his thoughts. Maybe that's where I saw it. Its height is 53.6m (176ft) and length 365.7m (1,200ft). They hold a long list of achievements, beginning with the independence movement. A culture of a civilisation is judged by its contributions to sustaining a society. Skip to content Bringing science & development together through news & analysis They knew that even if they gave him 25%, not even three or four percent of qualified people would be available [among the Dalits]. The Justice Party came to power in 1920 and the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) in 1967. He did not think about others. (Periyar E.V.R. A meeting between the Chief Ministers to discuss the issue is being planned in December. But there was a report in The Hindu, the next day (25 January, 1971), by the Salem correspondent who wrote on the 'Superstition Eradication Conference', in which, 'a 10-foot long image of Lord Rama was carried on a vehicle and dozens of people kept beating it with chappals'. Another claim was that EVR stood for womens emancipation. On an average, 22 thousand million cubic feet (tmc ft) of water is diverted, irrigating about 2.20 lakh acres and meeting the drinking water requirements of people in the region. I predict that crazes will die naturally while excellence whether in art or culture will always prevail! Stalin, urging him to draw maximum quantum of water from the dam through the tunnel so that a large volume release would be avoided altogether. Since then, many pocket size influences had come and goneby. This number increased to around 14,000 in 1936. The material and information contained on these pages and on any pages linked from these pages are intended to provide general information only and not legal advice. Periyar was clear that he was against Brahmins, not Brahminism. Which is why, for a celebrity to speak against Periyar is to denounce him, and all of his work in toto. Fact remains that EVR married a teenager who was fifty years younger than him and threw to the dustbin his disdain for child marriages. Keralas Irrigation Design and Research Board is in the final stages . No. Fraud fellows. They have nerve to do a forgery and include that in children text books. Height of hypocrisy. Irony is, they call themselves as Thus, less than 1% of 1% of the population were graduating from these colleges. The longer the period of impact, the more conceptual the idea conceived is deemed to be of the impacting mind. Many Brahmins too are taken to his ideas as it is easy and convenient to follow him instead of the rigours of discipline, practices and restraints which tradition demanded of them. Nor the suppression by the Thevar community of scheduled communities objected to. Later while travelling abroad, he attended nude camps in Germany without any moral qualms and posed for pictures. Remember that the Congress party was not founded to demand independence and neither was the Justice party. The Dravidian landscape, on the other hand, is an arid desert, and Periyar was the only cactus plant to have bloomed in it. Only with this theory an attempt at ravaging Hinduism could be tried for projecting Brahmins as aliens to India and Hinduism. construction of the Mullaperiyar dam across the Periyar in the present Idukki district. The people of India are barbarians. By accepting all cookies, you agree to our use of cookies to deliver and maintain our services and site, improve the quality of Reddit, personalize Reddit content and advertising, and measure the effectiveness of advertising. He regularly contributes to various journals and magazines. Krishnan is an author in both English and Tamil. As long as the ones who follow Manu dharma exist, the nation will never have discipline, integrity, honesty and justice. Periyar was the only cactus plant to have bloomed in it. The population of the presidency of Madras (a.k.a. Here are 10 facts which every Indian should know about EVR. (, Tamil Brahmans: The Making of a Middle Class.
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