Periyar Books in English

Social Exclusion (Two Essays)“The concept of social exclusion can help to ground the understanding of deprivation firmly in traditions of social sc...

Brahmanism Buddhism & Hinduism | Brahmanism Buddhism Hinduism

“The Politics of Indian Secularism”“The object of this paper is to unravel the entangled and often contradictory strands of Indian secularism. To t...

The Enfranchisement of Women“That the promoters of this new agitation take their stand on principles, and do not fear to declare these in their wid...

Pandita Ramabai Once MoreEight years after Rewriting History first came out Ramabai's life and times still enthuse me: I continue to engage with he...

Reminiscences of UntouchabilityThis incident has a very important place in my life….. This scene of a dozen Parsis armed with sticks lined before m...

The Noreast India: A ProfileThis monograph aims to provide a short profile of the region, by elucidating its complex issues such as persistent soci...

If the fact I have described above is true, then you will have to agree with the conclusion of it. The conclusion is, if you depend only upon your ...

Periyar E V Ramasami: A ProfileWith the Besantian growth of hair on his head, short, soft and of shining silvery hue, with his snow-white patriarch...

"….we are discussing China and India not as failures nor for their ancient wisdoms, but as dynamic modern economies. .. tell the world not to be af...

“One of the main points to be established in the present paper is that the prodigious first step to natuarl science was actally taken in ancient In...

"If there is a solvent for this spatially and socially clustered economy, it is more likely to be the state rather than the market. The state may o...

Social Exclusion & Social Solidarity:Three Paradigms"This article traces the evolution of the term "exclusion" over time, notably but not exclu...

Over the years, particularly after she moved to Kedgaon, she experimented with ideas that could provide women with space to grow and be self-suffic...

The Contexts of Social Inclusion“In Europe, welfare regime types include the Anglo-American liberal, Continental conservative or corporatist, Nordi...

Traditionally, the form of social critique that proceeds in this way has been called immanent critique. In a nutshell, an immanent critique of soci...

One can disagree with the author like i have in many points, but still have this text as a very good starting point for an informed debate or for a...

Periyar Erode Venkata Ramasamy (Tamil: பெரியார், 17 September 1879 – 24 December 1973), also known as Ramaswami, EVR, Thanthai Periyar, or Periyar,...

Erode Venkatappa Ramaswami Naicker, 1878-1973, social reformer and politician from Tamil Nadu | Periyar A Comparative Study

Waiting for a Visa is an autobiographical life story of B. R. Ambedkar written in the period of 1935–36. It consists of reminiscences drawn by Ambe...