| 词条 | M. C. Rajah |
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| name = Mylai Chinna Thambi Pillai Rajah | image = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1883|06|17}} | birth_place = St. Thomas Mount, Madras | death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1943|08|20|1883|06|17}} | death_place = St. Thomas Mount, Madras | nationality = Indian | other_names = M. C. Rajah | occupation = Scheduled Castes rights activist, freedom fighter, politician | years_active = | known_for = | notable_works = | alma_mater = Madras Christian College }} Rao Bahadur Mylai Chinna Thambi Pillai Rajah (17 June 1883 – 20 August 1943) was a Tamil politician, social and political activist from the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. He was born into Paraiyar caste, which is a Scheduled Caste. Rajah was born to a Tamil family of Madras. He entered politics after graduation and was a leader in the Justice Party. However, he quit the party in 1923 over the party's treatment of Paraiyars and allied with B. R. Ambedkar until, in turn, parting ways again over ideological differences. Rajah died in 1943. In his heyday, Rajah was considered to be a person equal in stature to Ambedkar. Rajah, along with Ambedkar and Rettamalai Srinivasan, represented the Scheduled Castes at the Second Round Table Conference in London. Early lifeRajah was born to Mylai Chinna Thambi Pillai in 1883[1] at St Thomas Mount, Madras.[2] Chinna Thambi Pillai was the manager of Lawrence Asylum.[3] Rajah had his schooling at the Wesley Mission High School, Royapettah[3] and Wesley College.[4] He graduated from Madras Christian College{{citation needed|date=April 2015}} and worked as a school master.[5] Anti-Brahmin movementRajah joined politics at an early age and was elected president of the Chingleput district board.[6] In 1916, he became the Secretary of the Adi-Dravida Mahajana Sabha.[7] He was one of the founder-members of the South Indian Liberal Federation. Rajah was elected to the Madras Legislative Council as a Justice Party candidate during the first general elections held in November 1920.[4][8] He was elected Deputy Leader of the Justice Party in the house. Rajah was the first member of the scheduled caste community to be elected to the Madras Legislative Council.[9]{{qn|date=July 2017}} In 1922, Rajah passed a resolution demanding that the terms Paraiya and Panchama be dropped from official usage and instead be substituted with Adi-Dravida and Adi-Andhra.[7] In 1921, the Justice Party government of the Raja of Panagal introduced reservations for backward classes in government jobs. However, this act did not allocate quotas for scheduled castess.[10] Disenchanted, Rajah led a delegation of scheduled castes to protest the act and press their demand for inclusion. But the Justice Party did not respond.[10] Instead, when riots broke out in Puliyanthope the same year, top-ranking Justice Party leaders regarded the Government's policy of appeasement of paraiyars responsible for the strike.[11] Outraged at this, Rajah quit the party in 1923.[10][11] He remained a member of the Madras Legislative Council till 1926. In 1928, he created and became the president of the All India Depressed Castes Association. From 1926 till 1937, he was a member of the Imperial Legislative Assembly.{{Citation needed|date=October 2011}} During April–July 1937 he was the Madras Presidency's Minister for Development in the short lived interim provisional cabinet of Kurma Venkata Reddy Naidu.[12] Parting of ways with AmbedkarIn 1932, M. C. Rajah concluded a pact with two members of the Indian National Congress, B. S. Moonje[13][14] and Jadhav. According to this pact, Moonje offered reserved seats to scheduled castes in return for Rajah's support. This demand prompted Ambedkar to make an official demand for Separate electorates on an all-India basis.{{Citation needed|date=July 2017}} By late 1935, Rajah had already decided not to support Ambedkar's intention of religious conversion from Hinduism. Rajah, as well as other scheduled caste leaders, felt that conversion from Hinduism would undermine the morale of scheduled caste and forward-caste Hindu activists engaged in a two-front war against both "upper"-cast reactionaries as well as the British.{{Citation needed|date=July 2017}} Rajah said {{quote|The Congress, under the inspiration of Gandhi, has taken up the question of removal of Untouchability and the Hindu Mahasabha has followed suit. It is our duty to help them in their endeavor and not to throw obstacles in their way. […] Hinduism is our religion and it is sacred to us. It is our duty to preserve it and purify it. We do not want to cut away from the Hindu fold. We want better recognition - a recognition of the fact that we are men equally with the caste-Hindus. |source = M.C. Rajah, from a source quoted by Jaffrelot in Dr. Ambedkar and Untouchability: Fighting the Indian Caste System, p. 128[15]}} DeathRajah died on 23 August 1943 at his house on "St. Thomas Mount", today named as "Rajah Street".[6] Publications
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Notes1. ^{{cite book | title=The Times of India Directory and Year Book Including Who's who| last=Reed | first=Stanley| year=1929| pages=114| publisher=Bennett, Coleman & Co.}} 2. ^{{cite book | title=Dalit Identity in the New Millennium| last=Chandra| first=Romesh|author2=Sangh Mitthra | year=2003| pages=91| publisher=Commonwealth Publishers| ISBN=978-81-7169-765-6}} 3. ^1 {{cite book | title=Dalit Movement in India and Its Leaders, 1857-1956: 1857-1956| last=Kshirasagara| first=Ramachandra| year=1994| pages=302| publisher=M. D. Publications| ISBN=978-81-85880-43-3}} 4. ^1 {{cite book | title=Dictionary of Indian Biography| last=Indian Bibliographic Centre Research Wing, Indian Bibliographic Centre| year=2000| pages=348| publisher=Indian Bibliographic Centre| ISBN=978-81-85131-15-3}} 5. ^{{cite book | title=Colonialism, Conflict, and Nationalism: South India, 1857-1947| last=Chandrahekar| first=S.| year=1995| pages=110| publisher=Wishwa Prakashan| ISBN=978-81-7328-040-5}} 6. ^1 {{cite book | title=The Indian Review| last=Natesan| first=G. A.| year=1943| pages=425| publisher=G.A. Natesan & Co.}} 7. ^1 {{cite book|title=India's silent revolution: Rise of lower castes in North India|year=2003|last=Jaffrelot|first=Christophe |authorlink=Christophe Jaffrelot |publisher=C. Hurst & Co. Publishers|isbn=978-1-85065-670-8|page=169}} 8. ^{{cite book | title=NMML Manuscripts: An Introduction| year=2003| pages=410| publisher=Nehru Memorial Museum and Library| ISBN=978-81-87614-05-0}} 9. ^{{cite book | title=Dictionary of National Biography| last=Sen| first=Siba Pada| year=1972| publisher=Institute of Historical Studies}} 10. ^1 2 {{cite book|title=India's silent revolution: Rise of lower castes in North India|year=2003|last=Jaffrelot|first=Christophe|publisher=C. Hurst & Co. Publishers|isbn=978-1-85065-670-8|page=175}} 11. ^1 {{cite book | title=The Untouchables: Subordination, Poverty, and the State in Modern India| last=Mendelsohn| first=Oliver|author2=Marika Vicziany | year=1998| pages=94| publisher=Cambridge University Press| ISBN=978-0-521-55671-2}} 12. ^{{cite book | title=Justice Party Golden Jubilee Souvenir, 1968| edition=| author=| pages=| publisher=| isbn=}} 13. ^{{Cite web|url=http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/projects/mmt/ambedkar/web/individuals/6750.html|title=Rajah, Rao Bahadur M. C. |accessdate=5 January 2009|publisher=University of Columbia|author=Pritchett}} 14. ^{{cite book | title=Caste in Indian Politics| last=Kothari| first=R.| year=2004| pages=46| publisher=Orient Blackswan| ISBN=978-81-250-0637-4}} 15. ^{{cite book|title=Dr. Ambedkar and Untouchability: Fighting the Indian Caste System|year=2005|last=Jaffrelot|first=Christophe |authorlink=Christophe Jaffrelot |publisher=Columbia University Pree Publishers|isbn=0-231-13602-1|page=128}} External links
7 : 1883 births|1943 deaths|Tamil Nadu politicians|Madras Christian College alumni|Members of Central Legislative Assembly of India|Politicians from Chennai|Activists from Tamil Nadu |
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