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John Rathnam

John Ratnam was the editor of Dravida Pandian Magazine, which was started by Pandit Ayodhidoss. This movement requested the government to provide educational facilities and employment opportunities to the Scheduled Caste people. In 1887 John Ratnam started a school in the Thousand Lights area for Scheduled Caste people. In 1944 the South Indian Liberal Federation, under the leadership of E. V.Ramasamy at Salem, adopted the name Dravida Kazhagm in place of South Indian Liberal Federation. It is a leading non-Bralimin movement in Tamil Nadu. The real pioneer of the non- Brahmin organization was John Ratnam1 4, an untouchable leader.