Periyar Selected Writings  (Paperback, Telugu, Periyar Ramaswamy)

Hyderabad Book Trust brings to you, for the first time in Telugu, the Selected Writings of EV Ramaswamy Periyar, who can only be compared with Narayana Guru of Kerala and Phule of Maharashtra. Periyar dedicated his life to a fight against Brahmanical hegemony. The anti Brahman movement launched by him consummated in the Self Respect movement in Tamil Nadu, laying the foundations for alterative politics. In this selection we include three original writings of Periyar, a biographical sketch of Periyar by Nobel Laureate VS Naipaul and a commentary on Periyar’s view on Islam by Aloysius. Hyderabad Book Trust hopes that this series will play an important role in developing a comparative commentary on these first generation social reformers of modern India and their contributions. Author : Periyar V Ramaswamy, VS Naipaul, Aloysius. Translation : Prabhakar Mandara, John Wesley