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Download Solution PDFWho founded the Adi Dravida Mahajana Sabha in 1893?
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- Rettaimalai Srinivasan (1859–1945), was born in 1859 at Kanchipuram.
- He fought for social justice, equality and civil rights of the marginalised in the caste order.
- He experienced the horrors of untouchability and worked for the progress of the deprived castes.
- He founded the Adi Dravida Mahajana Sabha in 1893.
- He served as president of the Scheduled Castes Federation and the Madras Provincial Depressed Classes’ Federation.
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- Rettaimalai Srinivasan was honoured with such titles as Rao Sahib (1926), Rao Bahadur (1930) and Divan Bahadur (1936) for his selfless social services.
- His autobiography, Jeeviya Saritha Surukkam (A Brief Autobiography), published in 1939, is one of the earliest autobiographies.
- A close associate of Dr B.R. Ambedkar, he participated in the first and second Round Table Conferences.
- He was a signatory to the Poona Pact of 1932.
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