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Rettamalai Srinivasan at the Round Table Conference

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Rettamalai Srinivasan at the Round Table Conference
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Dalit leader Rettamalai Srinivasan represented the depressed classes alongside B. R. Ambedkar at the Round Table Conferences in London.

Rettamalai Srinivasan, a Dalit activist from the Madras Presidency, was nominated to represent the depressed classes at the Round Table Conferences in London. He and B. R. Ambedkar presented the case for political safeguards for the depressed classes. Srinivasan had earlier founded the Paraiyar Mahajana Sabha and worked for Dalit rights in Madras. His participation brought Tamil Dalit concerns into the constitutional discussions of the period.

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