Thanthai Periyar: A Male Feminist in Patriarchal India

A democrat is attracted to the ideas, life and mission of Periyar because of the latter’s lifelong and praxological dedication to the promotion of social justice and scientific temper. These are values enshrined in the modernist sections of the Constitution of India. It can be said that the idea of social justice, going back to the age of the Buddha in the ancient period and Rousseau and Marx in the modern period, is actually quite old and this fact was known to the worthies who debated and drafted a Constitution for India between 1946 and 1949.