In Tamil Nadu, who among the following started first political organization for the depressed classes?
Rettamalai Srinivasan
The depressed classes of the Madras Presidency began to organise politically in the last decade of the nineteenth century.
Rettamalai Srinivasan founded the Paraiyar Mahajana Sabha in the early 1890s, which is recorded as the first political organisation of the depressed classes in Tamil Nadu; it later became the Adi Dravida Mahajana Sabha. He also ran the journal Paraiyan and represented the depressed classes at the first two Round Table Conferences.
M.C. Raja entered public life later, became the first member from the depressed classes in the Madras Legislative Council in 1920 and led the community in the legislature, but he did not start the first organisation.
R. Veerayan was an associate in the Adi Dravida movement of the twentieth century, and Ayothidasa Pandithar is remembered chiefly for the Tamil Buddhist revival through the Sakya Buddhist Society and the weekly Oru Paisa Tamizhan.
Rettamalai Srinivasan option is correct.
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Code :
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Which organisation was established in 1817 to promote Western education among Indians?
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I Charity and welfare
II Generation of Income / Funds
III Relief and Rehabilitation
IV Service and Development of Human being
