The Freedom Struggle and the Dravidian Movement

The Freedom Struggle and the Dravidian Movement

Author: Pi Rāmamūrtti

Publisher:

Published: 1987

Total Pages: 142

ISBN-13:

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Valuable To The Historian And Interesting To The Layman, This Book Contains Answers To Many Of The Political, Geographical, Ethnic And Linguistic Problems Which Face Tamil Nadu.


The Dravidian Movement

The Dravidian Movement

Author: Robert L. Hardgrave, Jr.

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2022-06-30

Total Pages: 133

ISBN-13: 100060876X

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The foundations of politics in Tamil Nadu today are rooted in the rising consciousness and various organizations of what may be broadly termed "the Dravidian Movement" of the late nineteenth century and first decades of the twentieth century. This book focuses on the emergence of a new awareness of Tamil identity though a range of organizations for Dravidian uplift such as the Non-Brahmin Movement, the South Indian Liberal Federation (popularly known as the Justice Party), the Self-Respect Movement, the Dravida Kazhagam (DK), and its dynamic off-shoot, the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK). The most prominent leaders of the Dravidian Movement were E. V. Ramaswamy Naicker, known as Periyar, "Great Sage," and C. N. Annadurai—Anna—who in 1967 was to become Chief Minister of Madras State. Today there are many books on Tamil politics, but until the 1960s no book had addressed the movement that was to become the dominant force in the political life of Tamil Nadu today. It was a young American, Robert L. Hardgrave, Jr., in 1960 who took up the project to portray the Dravidian Movement. With several months in Madras, he met leaders of the DMK and attended a number of conferences, and he collected all the pamphlets and papers he could find on the movement, many going back to the 1930s. As a graduate student at the University of Chicago, he brought this together for his Master’s degree thesis, completed in 1962. It was published as a book, The Dravidian Movement, in Bombay in 1965. Long out-of-print, the pioneering volume is again available in this new reprint edition.


Anna

Anna

Author: R Kannan

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 2017-06-13

Total Pages: 491

ISBN-13: 8184753136

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AN ILLUMINATING ACCOUNT OF THE DMK AND ITS CHARISMATIC FOUNDER In 1967, C.N. Annadurai became the chief minister of Madras state, when his party, the DMK, swept to power for the first time. In this definitive biography, R. Kannan traces the growth of Annadurai—from a young protégé of the radical thinker Periyar E.V. Ramasamy into a revered leader known as Anna, or elder brother. Kannan draws on Anna’s considerable body of writing, and the memoirs of other leaders and authors in Tamil, to candidly examine Anna’s complex relationship with Periyar and his disillusionment with the corruption he witnessed when in power. Featuring luminaries like Rajagopalachari and Kamaraj, K. Karunanidhi and MGR, among many others, Anna offers a warm and rounded portrait of a man who showed the way for the democratic expression of regional aspirations within a united India.


Breaking India

Breaking India

Author: Rajiv Malhotra

Publisher: Bright Sparks

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9788191067378

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This book focuses on the role of U.S. and European churches, academics, think-tanks, foundations, government and human rights groups in fostering separation of the identities of Dravidian and Dalit communities from the rest of India. It is the result of five years of research, and uses information obtained in the West about foreign funding of these Indian-based activities. The research tracked the money trails that start out claiming to be for education, human rights, empowerment training and leadership training, but end up in programs designed to produce angry youths who feel disenfranchised from Indian identity. The book reveals how outdated racial theories continue to provide academic frameworks and fuel the rhetoric that can trigger civil wars and genocides in developing countries. The Dravidian movement's 200-year history has such origins. Its latest manifestation is the Dravidian Christianity - movement that fabricates a political and cultural history to exploit old faultlines. The book explicitly names individuals and institutions, including prominent Western ones and their Indian affiliates. Its goal is to spark an honest debate on the extent to which human rights and other empowerment projects are cover-ups for these nefarious activities.


Competitive Elections in Developing Countries

Competitive Elections in Developing Countries

Author: Myron Weiner

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 1987

Total Pages: 452

ISBN-13: 9780822307662

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This is the latest in the At the Polls series, in which Duke University Press has joined with the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research to publish studies on the electoral process as it functions around the world. Cited by Choice for its "high standard of scholarly analysis and objectivity," the series provides both a chronicle of events and a thorough analysis of the election results.


Rule of the Commoner

Rule of the Commoner

Author: Rajan Kurai Krishnan

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2022-08-31

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 1009276700

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The Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) has been singular in heralding and establishing a firm regional polity among the Indian states after the Indian Union was inaugurated as a republic. Academic scholarship has often treated the DMK as a Tamil nationalist or ethno-nationalist formation without conceptual clarity or critical insight. Rule of the Commoner demonstrates with persuasive evidence that the DMK appealed to a federalist and not nationalist imagination. The DMK's combining of the non-Brahmin Dravidian identity and allegiance to Tamil language led to a counter hegemonic formation of the plebes and left populism. Drawing on Ernesto Laclau, the book argues that the DMK achieved the construction of a people as Dravidian-Tamil, with Tamil being the empty signifier of the social whole, Brahmin vs. non-Brahmin divide functioning as the internal frontier leading to the formations of the political. It elaborates the conceptual scheme under the three rubrics of Ideation, Imagination and Mobilization.


Towards a Non-Brahmin Millennium

Towards a Non-Brahmin Millennium

Author: Va Kītā

Publisher: Bhatkal & Sen

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 580

ISBN-13:

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The Revised Edition Of The History Of Non-Brahmin Assertion To Brahmin Hegemony In The Old Madras Presidency Argues That This Complex And Layered Pst Has To Be Critically Reclaimed For Our Times. An Analytical Study Of The Gestation Of The Movement, Of Its Forebears Like Lyothee Thass And His Contemporaries, The Book Also Provides An Incisive Discussion On The Contributions Of Periyar, E. V. Ramasami, The Pathbreaking Founder Of The Self-Respect Movement.


John Frith, Scholar and Martyr

John Frith, Scholar and Martyr

Author: Brian Raynor

Publisher:

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 440

ISBN-13: 9781871044782

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John Frith was one of the outstanding academics of his time. He had a clear logical mathematical mind, was highly respected and influenced many. Yet, in 1553, at the age of 30, he was burnt at the stake for writing books supporting doctrines of Reformation. This work discusses his life.


Plain Speaking:

Plain Speaking:

Author: A. N. Sattanathan

Publisher:

Published: 2020-12

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9788178245546

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Memoirs and lectures of the author, Collector of Customs and Central Excise, Calcutta and Chairman of the first Tamil Nadu Backward Classes Commission.