The self-respect movement launched by Periyar (E.V. Ramasami Naiker) in 1926 questioned the ways in which the lower castes were systematically excluded from the Indian nation and constructed as the ‘Other’ by the Brahmin elites. While Periyar’s role within the movement has received critical and scholarly attention, women self-respecters and the issues they raised have gone largely unnoticed. This collection of essays and fiction by women self-respecters ...
