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Awaiyar an eminent poetess of ancient 'Tamil land sa),s that thc Icarncd people are adored wherever they go. 150 Plato a great Greek thinker prescribes education fbr ruling. His pupil Aristotle also euologises education. The French philosopher Rousseau also places education high. Learning refines one's thinking and outlook. It is expected to instill equality in the minds of all. It also plays a role in enhancing humanity. In India untouchability has been a cruel disease though the la\vs arc very severe to curb it. It exists mostly in the rural areas where ignorance and illiteracy parade. Learning is a weapon for the crusaders of social evils. Rajaji also hi^^ taken this weapon to bring dignity and honour for the people \vho are depressed and oppressed socially Even education was denied to the sociall\, oppressed classes, thc Harijans, in the culture void places where the dark minds rcigncd. On one side there arose a social reform movement that was led by Pcriyar E.V.Rarnasamy [Periyar E.V.R] to eradicate untouchability and other social evils and on the other side there appeared the application of Gandhian principles to eradicate untouchability. Rajaji was a follower of Mahatma Gandhi and he fought against Casteism wherever it was possible. Though the Government was powerful it could not make all the students study in the same schools. This was because the parents of the so-called high
class were reluctant to send their children to the schools where the I-larijan students were admitted. This made the governn~ent to establish separate for the Harijans. 151 Rajaji's Crusade against Casteism Rajaji's main aim was to educate the deprcsscd class cl11ldrt.11. Ilndcr his leadership the Congress Party before and aftcr indcpc~lrlcncc rcndereci jcltlcsb service to the helpless Scheduled Castes. The Go\ crnmcnt of Madras \+as tile first Provincial Government in India to undertake the 14orh of a~nelioration oi' the Scheduled The Government under Itajaji ~nadc institutionaliscd efforts to promote education among the Scheduled Castes through the Labour Welfare ~e~artment.~ Rajaji's Government gave free concessions in the educati~rlal institutions to the students who belonged to the most back~vard class likc Kallar, Maravar Yenadi and above all the socially oppressed class peoplc. '' During 1939-40 the economically and socially depressed class students who were appearing for various examinations had been exenlpted from the payment of fees.33 Every Harijan hamlet with a population of 500 and above could get a primary school during Rajaji's tenure as Chief ~inister." Building schools exclusively for the Harijans was not justified after independence, since it was
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