06-01-2006, 07:30 PM
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A correction, the dravidianist movement in the initial stages was vehemently anti Dalit, after Brahmins the most hated people by Periyar were the Dalits, we can see his disdain for them in his own writings and speeches, here is an article that I posted before that mentions this:
http://www.newstodaynet.com/2006sud/06mar/0803ss1.htm
As far as I know in the initial stages, only the non Brahmin Dwija castes were considered Dravidian, meaning Dalits and Brahmins were not, it was only later after the Dalit movement took off that the Dravidianists changed their tune and began to portray themselves as Dalit saviours.
A correction, the dravidianist movement in the initial stages was vehemently anti Dalit, after Brahmins the most hated people by Periyar were the Dalits, we can see his disdain for them in his own writings and speeches, here is an article that I posted before that mentions this:
http://www.newstodaynet.com/2006sud/06mar/0803ss1.htm
As far as I know in the initial stages, only the non Brahmin Dwija castes were considered Dravidian, meaning Dalits and Brahmins were not, it was only later after the Dalit movement took off that the Dravidianists changed their tune and began to portray themselves as Dalit saviours.