The Cultural Movements Based on Script and Language – Essay
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Brahmin is a person who belongs to the upper most group in the hierarchical order of Varnashrama Dharma who has the exclusive Vedic and ritual rights. The only common ground of the non- Brahmins is that they are not Brahmins and Non- Brahmin is a consciously constructed political category whose referents were shifting and various.
Non Brahminism emerged as a result of the making of public space and emergence of a notion of rights which were the by products of colonial rule in India. Generally speaking it was the presence of British and all that it implied which enabled the non-Brahmin groups to attempt and succeed in their challenges to and defiance of social and religious creed and custom.
The emergence of non Brahminism in different parts of India has to be looked into differently. The advent of political non Brahminism in the southern part of India took place with the formation of the South Indian Liberal foundation or Justice Party, as it is popularly known, in 1916. While in the western India the real challenge to Hindu orthodoxy came from Jothirao Phule in the nineteenth century. But the protest against caste, casteism and the Brahminical order probably reached its peak in the modern era under the influence of B.R Ambedkar.
The approaches were different but the ideal was the same, to restore the self respect of the oppressed masses. Ambedkar aimed at bringing about social changes through the instrument of law and he clearly emphasized the centrality of the state and recognised the possibilities arising out of using it as leverage for ensuring social justice, whereas E.V Ramasamy Naicker (popularly known as Periyar), the advocate of Dravidian Movement, was far more critical about the power of state, this was clearly evident in his overall aversion to electoral politics and his efforts to keep the Dravidar Kazhagham as a radical social organisation focussing on radical social movement. Unlike both Ambedkar and EVR, Jotiba Phule resorted to more non- political measures. He believed educating the masses will lead to their empowerment.
But one premise was common to all that Britishers are saviours of sudras, earlier advocated by Jotiba later followed by both Ambedkar and EVR. This was the reason due to which the followers of non-Brahminism were termed as traitors and pro- British by the nationalists.
Non Brahminism emerged as a result of the making of public space and emergence of a notion of rights which were the by products of colonial rule in India. Generally speaking it was the presence of British and all that it implied which enabled the non-Brahmin groups to attempt and succeed in their challenges to and defiance of social and religious creed and custom.
The emergence of non Brahminism in different parts of India has to be looked into differently. The advent of political non Brahminism in the southern part of India took place with the formation of the South Indian Liberal foundation or Justice Party, as it is popularly known, in 1916. While in the western India the real challenge to Hindu orthodoxy came from Jothirao Phule in the nineteenth century. But the protest against caste, casteism and the Brahminical order probably reached its peak in the modern era under the influence of B.R Ambedkar.
The approaches were different but the ideal was the same, to restore the self respect of the oppressed masses. Ambedkar aimed at bringing about social changes through the instrument of law and he clearly emphasized the centrality of the state and recognised the possibilities arising out of using it as leverage for ensuring social justice, whereas E.V Ramasamy Naicker (popularly known as Periyar), the advocate of Dravidian Movement, was far more critical about the power of state, this was clearly evident in his overall aversion to electoral politics and his efforts to keep the Dravidar Kazhagham as a radical social organisation focussing on radical social movement. Unlike both Ambedkar and EVR, Jotiba Phule resorted to more non- political measures. He believed educating the masses will lead to their empowerment.
But one premise was common to all that Britishers are saviours of sudras, earlier advocated by Jotiba later followed by both Ambedkar and EVR. This was the reason due to which the followers of non-Brahminism were termed as traitors and pro- British by the nationalists.
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