Who was E V Ramaswamy? Write a note on the Non-Brahman movement.

E.V. RAMASWAMY

a. E.V. Ramaswamy belonged to the middle-class family.

b. He was an ascetic and had read Sanskrit scriptures carefully.

c. He was a member of Congress, but soon left it when he realized the existence of caste discrimination in the seating arrangement-the lower caste was to sit far away from the upper caste.

d. He was the founder of the Self Respect Movement for the promotion of the rights of the ‘untouchables’.

e. He said that the Untouchables were the true holders of the original Tamil and Dravidian culture.

f. He felt that all the religions and some sort of inequality and must be appropriately fought so that everyone can get equal rights and equal treatment.