Village Reconstruction

Village Reconstruction book by E. V. Ramasami Periyar and translated by G. Aloysius

E V Ramasami Periyar (1879-1973), the great anti-caste and feminist ideologue of the previous century, like many of his colleagues elsewhere, started out his political career as a Congressman…….

However, to many of the policies and programs of the Congress, Ramasami had his own, usually more direct and radical interpretation. For example, untouchability meant for him caste-varna itself and the eradication he dreamed was that of the phenomenon itself. Again, prohibition for him was a social mission as drunkenness was a mass evil. But he found, on the other hand,  the Congressmen trying to isolate physical-literal untouchability as the evil to be abolished and not caste or  itself….