His mother tongue was Kannada but he was very fluent in Tamil Kannada and Telugu languages.
He married Nagamani at his age of 19
Political life
He was elected the chairman in 1918 to erode municipality
He joined in congress party in the year 1999 and participated in the non-cooperation movement during the year 1920
In 1921 he conducted agitations against liquor shops in erode.
He was elected as a president to the Madras state Congress committee in the year 1922-1923
In 1924 he conducted a movement in vaikkom Kerala which enabled the backward class people to enter the Hindu temples.
Hence, he was called Vaikkam Veerar. George Joseph took him To Vaikkom.
George Joseph fondly called Rosappu Durai by the people of Madurai.
During 1925 he opposed the and teachability system followed in that cheranmahadevi Ashram run by VVS Iyer.
In 1925 he demanded communal representation in the Congress party during the state Congress meet Kanchipuram under the leadership of Thiru. Vi.Kalyanasundaranar.
Since the party people opposed is demand he resigned from the Congress party.
He started the self-respect movement in the year 1925.
Its first state-level meet was conducted at Chengalpattu in the year 1929.
He released a book named family planning in the year 1930.
In 1938 he was awarded the title Periyar in the women’s Congress held at Chennai under the chairmanship of neelambigai, daughter of Maraimalai Adigal.
The title was given by Dr. Dharmambal.
He was sworn in as a leader of the justice party in the year 1938 and demanded a separate Dravidian country in the year 1939.
In 1944 justice party renamed gravida as proposed by Annadurai.
He married Maniammai (28) at his age of 70.
He died on December 24 1973 at his age of 94.
In 1936 Periyar got Dr. BR Ambedkar’s Annihilation of cast translated into Tamil immediately after it was written.
The Anti-Hindi agitation (1937-39) had a big impact on Tamil Nadu politics.
Priya was imprisoned for his role at the moment.
Periyar work on women empowerment
Priya was critical of patriarchy.
He Condemned child marriage and the devadasi system.
Periyar had been emphasizing women’s right to divorce and property.
he rejected two terms like giving in marriage instead of using that he used life partner taken from Thirukural.
Areas most important pieces of work on this subject is “why the woman is enslaved?”
He will come to equal rights for males and females in property guardianship and adoption.
He was a strong champion of birth control and contraception and said that motherhood was a burden to women.
The Hindu succession Tamil Nadu amendment Act of 1989, which ensure equal rights to the ancestral property for women.
View on religion:
Priya wanted religion to be replaced by Rationalism.
Religion means you accept superstitious belief -he said
Periyar spends his entire life champion against superstition through thinkers or rationalist forums.
Periyar objected to the hereditary priesthood in temples.
He encouraged the people to boycott the Brahmin priest and their Vedic rituals.
He advocated inter-caste and self-respect marriages devoid of any such rituals.
Periyar argued that whoever had the right religious knowledge, even if they are common people can become Priest.
Journals:
Kudiyarasu (1925) – the magazine becomes the mouthpiece of the moment.
Revolt (1929) – English journal
Revolution (1933)
Pagutharivu (1934) – with this newspaper he brings Tamil language reforms, he used to the roman number system.
Viduthalai (1935)
Dravidian – he used to write a character with the surname “Sithiraputhiran” in justice party journal.
