Iyothee Thass Pandithar : மணிமண்டபம் கட்டும் அளவுக்கு அப்படி என்ன செய்தார் அயோத்திதாசர்? The Legend

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Iyodhee Thass Pandithar (1845-1914) was beyond any doubt a pioneer to these leaders.

Born in 1845 to a family that had the backing of conventional education and practitioners of Siddha medicine from Chennai, Iyodhee Thass’s grandfather Kanthappan worked as a butler at the residences of Britishers. Butlers employed by the British were invariably Dalits.

When the Chennai Education Society was founded in 1812, inspired by Kolkata’s Asiatic Society (1784), and Chennai district collector Ellis was in the process of collecting important Tamil texts, Kanthappan was the one who provided the Tamil classic Thirukkural.

As Ooty came to be the summer capital of the Madras presidency and when employees serving the British were transferred, Kanthappan was also moved to the hill station. Iyodhee Thass, who also grew up in Ooty, began his social work by organising the tribals. Later, it led to the founding of Dravida Pandian magazine and the establishment of Dravida Mahajana Sabha that worked towards land, education and other civil rights of the people.

He was also one of the early critics of the idea of India being proposed at the time of freedom movement. He said it would merely end up catering to the benefits of the Brahmanical political class. When the Swadeshi movement got aggressive during the Bengal partition in 1905 and its influence was being felt in Tamil Nadu, Iyodhee Thass strongly opposed it.

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Host - Suguna Diwakar ,Camera - Kannan , Edit- Guna S

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