1. Role of Ayothidasa Pandithar
Dravidian Movement
Role of Ayothidasa Pandithar

2. Ayothee Dasa Pandithar Dalit Consciousness in South India
The basic components of Dalit consciousness that emerged during the late 19th and early 20th century in South India.
The features of Dalit consciousness that was represented by the Dalit thinker, Ayothee Dasa Pandithar ( ), became popular among the depressed people.
His writings were discovered and published very recently (Volumes I & II in 1999 and Volume III in 2003) by their editor G. Aloysious in three volumes.
Interestingly, Ayothee Dasa Pandithar lived in an age just immediately prior to Ambedkar and it seems that he has come to associate the Dalit consciousness and revival of Buddhism earlier to Ambedkar in south India.

3. Cont…
Knowledge about Ayothee Dasa Pandithar challenges the existing view that the Justice Party of the South Indian non-Brahmins is the pioneer movement in popularizing the themes of anti-Brahmanism, atheism, critique of Hinduism and caste system.
Ayothee Dasa’s construction of Dalit consciousness in Tamil context at the wake of 20th century is pertinent to understand the appearance of Marxist ideology in Tamil region because M. Singaravelu ( ), celebrated as the first communist of South India, started his political career along with Ayothee Dasa Pandithar, too participated in the Buddhist revival in South India and entered into certain debates with Ayothee Dasa to get evolved into a communist after the demise of the latter.
He participated in the Round Table Conferences along with B.R. Ambedkar.