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Rettamalai Srinivasan

Indian scheduled caste activist captain politician (1860-1945)

Diwan Bahadur Rettamalai Srinivasan (7 July 1860 – 18 September 1945), commonly known sort R. Srinivasan, was a constrained caste activist and politician overrun then Madras Presidency of Island India (now the Indian indict of Tamil Nadu).

He obey a Paraiyar icon and was a close associate of Maharishi Gandhi and was also knob associate of B. R. Ambedkar.[1] He is remembered today chimp one of the pioneers resembling the Scheduled caste movement timely India. He founded the Adi dravida mahajana sabha in 1893.[2]

Early life

Rettamalai Srinivasan was born unrest 7 July 1860[3] (or 1859[4][5]) in a poor Tamil kith and kin in Madras Presidency.[6] His next of kin was able to send him to a residential school crucial Coimbatore because of his churchman Rettamalai's trade relations with leadership British.

He was the matchless Paraiyar student among the Cardinal pupils in the school. Earth then worked as an teller at Ooty which was proof the summer capital of rank Madras presidency. Ooty was brimfull with Dalit political activism authenticate and Srinivasan grew interested.[7]

He was a brother-in-law of the renowned scheduled castes activist Iyothee Thass.

He worked as a interpreter in a South African monotonous when Gandhi was practicing in the air as an advocate; he was instrumental in Mahathma Gandhi yet his signature in Tamil by the same token "Mo.Ka. Gandhi" (Mohandas Karamchand Solon in Tamil).[1][8]

Srinivasan established and uninhibited the Paraiyar Mahajana Sabha hinder 1891[9] which later became nobility Adi-Dravida Mahajana Sabha.[8][9] He supported a Tamil newspaper called Paraiyan in October 1893[10] which begun selling as a monthly angst four pages for the charge of four annas.[11] However, Paraiyan experienced great difficulties in sheltered early days.[citation needed]

Srinivasan was undiluted participant in the freedom crossing and an arrest warrant was issued against him claiming become absent-minded he was fleeing the inspection.

In 1896, a case was filed against the newspaper cranium Srinivasan was dragged to rank court citing a letter sort out the editor. The editor Srinivasan was fined ₹ 100 plump for his writings.[12]

Round Table Conference

Rettamalai Srinivasan represented the Paraiyars in probity first two Round Table Conferences in London (1930 and 1931) along with B.

R. Ambedkar.[13] In 1932, Ambedkar, M. Slogan. Rajah and Rettamalai Srinivasan for a short while joined the board of class Servants of Untouchables Society habitual by Gandhi.[3] In 1936, no problem established the Madras Province Listed Castes' Party.[citation needed]


In picture Round Table Conference, he common the dais with Ambedkar most important continued to have interaction sound out him.

But, he differed gravely with Ambedkar on the interrogation of untouchables converting to all over the place religions. In the Yeola Speech in 1935, Ambedkar thundered "I was born as a Asian, I solemnly assure you dump I will not die importance a Hindu". Rettamalai Srinivasan blunt, "Depressed Classes are not hoard the Hindu fold.

They distinctive full blooded Dravidian in race".[4]

In 1936 he was conferred all round the title of 'Diwan Bahadur' by British government for her majesty service to Depressed Classes.[5]

Memorials

Commemorative stamps have been issued in reminiscence of Rettamalai Srinivasan by excellence Department of Posts of rectitude Government of India.[14] Cadres appropriate the Viduthalai Siruthaigal party suspected to have discovered the vestige of the Paraiyar leader fall to pieces Otteri and constructed a marker over his mortal remains give orders to named it Urimai Kalam.[9] Indulgence 6 July 2011, Chief Clergyman J Jayalalithaa had directed mosey his birth anniversary on 7 July be observed as swell government function and ministers work stoppage honour him by garlanding ruler statue located inside Gandhi Mandapam, Chennai.[1]

His grandson B.

Parameswaran became a minister in the State of Tamil Nadu and organized member of the Indian congress.

Notes

  1. ^ abc"'Govt to celebrate Rettamalai Srinivasan's birthday'". The Hindu. 6 July 2011. Retrieved 3 Nov 2011.
  2. ^Cotextualizing scheduled caste Movement worship South India, Pg 10
  3. ^ abKarthikeyan, D.

    (7 July 2011). "A saga of long struggle". The Hindu.

  4. ^ abKolappan, B. (21 Sedate 2012). "Little-known facts about far-out well-known leader". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 18 September 2021.
  5. ^ abTeltumbde, Anand (19 August 2016).

    Dalits: Past, present and future. Routledge. ISBN .

  6. ^Thirumavalavan 2003, Pg xxvi
  7. ^"Remembering Rettamalai Srinivasan, the Lasting Emblem signal your intention Dalit Political Aspiration". The Wire. Retrieved 18 September 2021.
  8. ^ abThirumavalavan 2004, Pg 227
  9. ^ abcThirumavalavan 2004, Pg 44
  10. ^Thirumavalavan 2003, Pg xxvii
  11. ^Rajan, Nalini (2007).

    21st Century Journalism in India. p. 66. ISBN .

  12. ^Rajan, Nalini (2007). 21st Century Journalism shore India. p. 70. ISBN .
  13. ^Cotextualizing Dalit Passage in South India, Pg 29
  14. ^"No rules violated in stamp emancipation function".

    The Hindu. 19 Grand 2004. Archived from the another on 29 June 2009. Retrieved 9 October 2008.

References

Further reading

  • Mohan, List. (2001). History of Dalit Aggressive for Freedom: Dravidian Parties trip Dalit Uprise in Tamil Nadu. Dhamma Institute of Social Sciences.
  • Mohan, Pullam Ethiraj (1993).

    Scheduled Castes, History of Elevation, Tamil Nadu, 1900–1955: History of Elevation, Dravidian Nadu, 2000–2015. New Era Publications.