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The Paraiyar On The Elephant: How Dharma Revives What Politics Relegated To The Pages of History

The Paraiyar On The Elephant: How Dharma Revives What Politics Relegated To The Pages of History by Aravindan Neelakandan - Mar 1, 2021 11:02 AM Thyagaraja temple, Thiruvarur Snapshot Hindu organisations of Thiruvarur have finally been successful in reviving a traditional ritual of the Paraiar leader mounting the elephant that bears the deity. This also signifies the cleansing of the stigma created around the word ‘Paraiah’ by colonial forces. The last three centuries have seen a unique phenomenon in India. Colonisation created impoverishment. This in turn created widespread social stagnation. The colonisers in turn essentialised Hindu culture and religion with the manifest ill-effects of social stagnation.

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