Periyar E.V. Ramasamy, social reformer and founder of the Dravidar Kazhagam, remains the central point of political discourse in Tamil Nadu decades after his passing in 1973. It has become ...

In his commentary (on I.iii.36), Shankara cites Manusmriti (X.126) in denying the purificatory rites for Shudras thus: “The Shudra belongs to the fourth caste and has but a single birth ...