Justice Party, Growth of Rationalism - Self Respect Movement
Student support, the Madras United League, Dravidian Home and the Non-Brahmin Manifesto created the organisational base for the Justice Party in 1916.
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Justice Party Origins: Non-Brahmin Organisations, 1909-1916
Student support, the Madras United League, Dravidian Home and the Non-Brahmin Manifesto created the organisational base for the Justice Party in 1916.
Open article →Justice Party Press, Elections and Ministries, 1916-1926
Three newspapers carried Justice Party ideas into the 1920 dyarchy election, victory, first Indian cabinet in Madras and two successive ministry periods.
Open article →Madras Presidency Premier Sequence, 1920-1937
The Grade 11 table lists every premier from A. Subbarayalu and the Raja of Panagal through the short 1936-1937 entries and Rajaji's Congress transition.
Open article →Justice Party Social-Justice Reforms, 1921-1929
Justice Party rule widened public access, education, women's political participation, communal representation, recruitment and temple administration.
Open article →Self-Respect Movement: Rationalism, Education and Equality
The Self-Respect Movement defined rationality and dignity as birthrights, opposed birth-based hierarchy and linked women's freedom with universal elementary education.
Open article →Self-Respect Marriage and Rationalist Press, 1925-1935
Self-Respect marriage turned rationalist principles into social practice, while Periyar's newspapers and journals carried debate to a mass audience.
Open article →Justice Party Limitations, Decline and the 1937 Defeat
The textbook attributes Justice decline to lost support among depressed sections and minorities, a more radical Self-Respect Movement, and the party's elitist pro-British outlook.
Open article →Justice Party and Self-Respect Convergence, 1937-1944
The anti-Hindi agitation brought Periyar to Justice Party leadership and prepared the merger with the Self-Respect Movement and the 1944 Dravidar Kazhagam transition.
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