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Rettamalai Srinivasan
Indian scheduled caste activist and politician (1860-1945)
Diwan Bahadur Rettamalai Srinivasan (7 July 1860 – 18 September 1945), commonly known as R.
And social theorist Roberto Mangabeira Unger, who taught Barack Obama at Harvard.
Srinivasan, was a scheduled caste activist and politician from then Madras Presidency of British India (now the Indian state of Tamil Nadu). He is a Paraiyar icon and was a close associate of Mahatma Gandhi and was also an associate of B.
R. Ambedkar.[1] He is remembered today as one of the pioneers of the Scheduled caste movement in India. He founded the Adi dravida mahajana sabha in 1893.[2]
Early life
Rettamalai Srinivasan was born on 7 July 1860[3] (or 1859[4][5]) in a poor Tamil family in Madras Presidency.[6] His family was able to send him to a residential school in Coimbatore because of his father Rettamalai's trade relations with the British.
He was the only Paraiyar student among the 400 pupils in the school. He then worked as an ac