...EWS ON UNTOUCHABILITY W. B. Vasantha Kandasamy e-mail: vasantha@iitm.ac.in web: http://mat.iitm.ac.in/~wbv Florentin Smarandache e-mail:... ...andasamy HEXIS Phoenix, Arizona 2005 2 This book can be ordered in a paper bound reprint from: Books on Deman... ...m ISBN: 1931233-00-4 Standard Address Number: 297-5092 Printed in the United States of America 3 PERIYAR, THE P... ...e: Tamil Nadu for the Tamils alone. More than 1200 people were imprisoned in 1938, of whom two youths Thalamuthu and Natarasan (a Dalit) lost their... ...due to the beatings in prison. Periyar was also incarcerated. On 13 November 1938, while Periyar was in prison undergoing rigorous imprisonment, a ... ... Chennai conferred on him the title of ‘Periyar’ (lit. Great Man). On 29-12-1938, as Periyar continued to remain imprisoned, the Justice Party ele... ...ch a kind of Swaraj, why will he not ask for the rule of Pakistan, or rule of Afghanistan, or any other rule that is non-Aryan? This is our question...

...K.R.Narayanan was a lauded hero and a distinguished victim of his Dalit background. Even in an international platform when he was on an official visit to Paris, the media headlines blazed, ‘An Untouchable at Elysee’. He was visibly upset and it proved that a Dalit who rose up to such heights was never spared from...