Maraimalai Adigal, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Orator and writer
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Place of Birth: Nagapattinam, Tamil Nadu, India
About Maraimalai Adigal
- Maraimalai Adigal (15 July 1876 – 15 September 1950) was a Tamil orator and writer and father of Pure Tamil movement, who fervently followed Saivam.
- He wrote more than 100 books, including works on original poems tand dramas, but most famous are his books on his research into Tamil literature.
- Most of his literary works were on Saivism.
- He founded a Saivite institution called Podhunilaik Kazhagam.
- He was an exponent of the Pure Tamil movement and hence considered to be the father of Tamil linguistic purism.
- He advocated the use of Tamil devoid of Sanskrit words and hence changed his birth name Vedhachalam to Maraimalai. Politically he was inclined towards non-Brahminism and hence he and his followers considered that the Self-respect movement was born out of his efforts.
- Though he is scholer of Tamil he has good scholastic study over Sanskrit as well as English Nevertheless, the atheist, anti-Hindu ideologies of Periyar E.
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- Ramasamy were shunned by Maraimalai Adigal and caused years of differences between the two.
- Maraimalai Adigal spent most of his income on buying his books and after his death his collection were made into a library according to his will.
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