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  • We had checked into a hotel in Periyar after a 4 hr drive from Munnar.

    Pivli Dal Anjali 2006

  • We had checked into a hotel in Periyar after a 4 hr drive from Munnar.

    Archive 2006-10-01 Anjali 2006

  • Near the spice market was a quaint little restaraunt where we ate banana fritters that I enjoyed a lot and everytime I make my own I remember those fritters in Periyar.

    Archive 2008-02-01 Anjali 2008

  • Near the spice market was a quaint little restaraunt where we ate banana fritters that I enjoyed a lot and everytime I make my own I remember those fritters in Periyar.

    Banana Fritters Anjali 2008

  • In South India, the “self-respect” movement launched by E.V. Ramasamy (called Periyar, a Tamil thinker and political activist, 1879-1973) took a similar line.

    Herman Daly Festschrift~ Socially Sustainable Economic Degrowth 2009

  • Today India's Supreme Court will hear arguments in a controversy over a statue of E.V. Ramasami Naicker, known as Periyar, that was put up in front of Sri Ranganathaswamy Hindu Temple in Srirangam, a small town in southern India.

    Archive 2007-01-01 Howard M. Friedman 2007

  • However, over time Mr. Ambedkar and other leaders like E.V. Ramaswamy Naicker, commonly known as Periyar, from southern India concluded that actions such as these looked too much like lower castes asking to be treated as equals.

    NYT > Home Page By ANANYA VAJPEYI 2011

  • Caste struggles that took place in south India or Maharashtra led by Periyar and Ambedkar never took place in Gujarat.

    Kavita N. Ramdas: Reflections from a Colleague - Justice and Community Building Kavita N. Ramdas 2010

  • Caste struggles that took place in south India or Maharashtra led by Periyar and Ambedkar never took place in Gujarat.

    Kavita N. Ramdas: Reflections from a Colleague - Justice and Community Building Kavita N. Ramdas 2010

  • Caste struggles that took place in south India or Maharashtra led by Periyar and Ambedkar never took place in Gujarat.

    Kavita N. Ramdas: Reflections from a Colleague - Justice and Community Building Kavita N. Ramdas 2010

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