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1) Periyar Erode Venkata Ramasamy was a Tamil social activist and politician who founded the Self-Respect Movement and Dravidar Kazhagam. 2) In 1924, he led the Vaikom Satyagraha in Kerala, a non-violent protest against the denial of temple entry to lower-caste Hindus. He was imprisoned twice for his participation. 3) The Satyagraha was eventually successful in gaining entry to lower-caste Hindus to the streets around temples, and later to the temples themselves, setting an important precedent in the fi

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Dhivya Ramachandran

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