The gendered discourse of the Tamils Reform Association (TRA)

• Main Author: Rajanthiran, Rajeleetha
• Other Authors: Jessica Hinchy
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/69777
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This paper examines the gendered discourse of the Tamils Reform Association (TRA) which was overlooked by many scholarly works concerning the transnational history between South India and Singapore. Since the TRA appropriated the ideas put forth by Periyar and his Self-Respect Movement (SRM) to abol...