Works by/on Periyar (E.V.R)

[umamah...@my-dejanews.com]

Does any one know of any literature about/or by Periyar (E.V.Ramaswamy)
existing in English language. Any articles, books or interenet stuff will
be of great help!

Thanks in advance
- Uma
email : suma 'at' rocketmail 'dot' com

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[mani...@hotmail.com]

umamah...@my-dejanews.com asked:

> Does any one know of any literature about/or by Periyar (E.V.Ramaswamy)
> existing in English language

Here's a list of books in both English and Tamil from a previous posting to
the soc.culture.tamil by Meenan Vishnu. Hope this helps.

- Mani

Subject: Re: Father of Dravidians
From: mvi...@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (Meenaradchagan Vishnu)
Date: 1998/03/31
Message-ID: <89138281...@globe.uwaterloo.ca>
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian,soc.culture.tamil

[snip]

If you want evidence that EVR neither advocated nor practised conversion
to any religion, read the following books:

1. E. V. Ramaswami Naicker - Periyaar A study of the influence of a
Personality in Contemporary South India, published by Department of
History, University of Lund, Sweden.

2. Regionalism and Religion; The Tamil Renaissance and Popular
Hinduism by Charles Ryerson. PhD thesis, Harvard University, 1988.

Meenan Vishnu

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Booklets by/on Periyaar.

1. aacaariyar aadciyil kodumaikaL (The Cruelties of Acarya's Rule)
Erode,1961.

2. aRivuc cudar (The Light of Knowledge), ThirucciraappaLLi, 1968.

3. aRivu virunthu (The Feast of Knowledge) ThirucciraappaLLi, 1968.

4. cinthanaikaL, Periyaar E. V. Ramaswami avarkaLin coRpozivaaRRalum
kadduraikaLum (Thoughts of Periyaar E.V.R.). Compiled and edited by V.
Anaimuththu, I-III, Madras 1974.

5. cuthanthirath thamiz naadu En ? (Why an independent Tamil Nadu ?),
Erode, 1960.

6. cuyamariyaathai iyakkaththai thORRuviththEn ? (Did I create the
Self-Respect movement?) ThirucciraappaLLi, 1975 (1937).

6. ezuththuc ceerthiruththam (Reform of Writing) ThirucciraappaLLi
1973 (1948).

7. inthu mathamum kaanthiyaarum periyaarum (Hindu Religion, Gandhi and
Periyaar), Erode, 1979 (1948).

8. iraamayaNak kuRippukkaL (Notes on Ramayana), Madras 1964.

9. kadavuL oru kaRpanaiyE ! (God is indeed an imagination)
ThirucciraappaLLi, 1971.

10. kiraamac ceerthiruththam (Reform of the Village), Erode 1944.

11. kOvil pakishkaram En ? (Why Temple Lockout?) Madras 1972.

12. manu neethi, oru kulaththiRku oru neethi (Manu's Laws, Laws for
one family [sic]) Erode 1968 (1960).

13. thanthai: moziyum aRivum (Word and Knowledge), ThirucciraappaLLi
1974 (1962) Sec. Edition.

14. navamaNikaL (nine gems) ThirucciraappaLLi 1974.

15. neethi keddathu yaaraal ? (By whom was Justice destroyed?)
ThirucciraappaLLi, 1971 (1957).

16. peN En adimaiyaanaaL? (Why did women became a slave?),
ThirucciraappaLLi, 1971, 11th edition.

17. Periyarana (??), translated by M. Dharmalingam, ThirucciraappaLLi
, 1976.

18. Philosophy, Bangalore 1959.

19. pirakiruthivaatam allathu mettiriyalisam (Prakriti or
Materialism), ThirucciraappaLLi, 1970 (3rd Edition).

20. Pon MozikaL (Golden Words) Vellore 1949.

21. puraddu imalayap puraddu (Overthrowing -- Himalaya overthrowing),
Erode 1961, (1953).

22. Ramayana, a true Reading, (English translation from Tamil)
ThirucciraappaLLi, 1972 (1959)

23. Social Reform or Social revolution? Madras 1965.

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[il...@csc.it.moc]

mani...@hotmail.com writes:
>
> umamah...@my-dejanews.com asked:
>
> > Does any one know of any literature about/or by Periyar (E.V.Ramaswamy)
> > existing in English language
>
> Here's a list of books in both English and Tamil from a previous posting to
> the soc.culture.tamil by Meenan Vishnu. Hope this helps.
>
> - Mani
>

> [deleted]

To know the other side of the story, you may also want to read
(if you can get a hold of it), a series of articles written by the
veteran freedom fighter Nellai Jebamani entitled "kandukoLvOm
kazhagangaLai", detailing all the blatantly opportunistic decisions
taken by EVR and his demagoguery. They appeared (either in the
mid- or early eighties) in the Tamil periodical Thuglak.

There is also a Ph.D thesis by a lady who studied EVR and his
contribution to TN. I cannot recall her name or the book's title
(there is a copy of the book in my house in India but I haven't
read it, although I have been wanting to); if I find out, I'll
post the details.