Periyar's Impact: Examining the Influence of Periyar on Contemporary Feminism

Although he dropped out of school, he acquired great wisdom and intelligence. Periyar fought against superstitions, religious killings, social injustices, women's enslavement and untouchability, deprivation of education and unemployment among the lower classes, and the Brahmin's oppressive rule in the Hindu caste system. He believed that god was the root cause of all of these evils and declared "rout god" as his battle cry. He argued that freedom, equality and fraternity could not...
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Although he dropped out of school, he acquired great wisdom and intelligence. Periyar fought against superstitions, religious killings, social injustices, women's enslavement and untouchability, deprivation of education and unemployment among the lower classes, and the Brahmin's oppressive rule in the Hindu caste system. He believed that god was the root cause of all of these evils and declared "rout god" as his battle cry. He argued that freedom, equality and fraternity could not be achieved until god was abandoned.