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Abstract
A galaxy of social reformers and a few reform-minded elites emerged in the Nineteenth Century, to remove societal obstacles that stood in the way of women's
liberation and development. Of all the reformers, Periyar E.V.Ramasamy (E.V.R.)alone attacked, for the first time, the ideological basis of the "enslavement of women" insociety through his journals. Periyar considered his journals as powerful vehicles to spread his message to the Tamil Society. In 1925, he started a journal, Kudi Arasu, (People’s Rule) which was followed in 1928 by Revolt. Then he started a Tamil journal called, Puratchi. It was then replaced by Pagutharivu, (Rationalism), on 26 August 1934. He made quick substitutions of each banned journal.