London, Sept. 5 -- Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin released two books on social reformer E V Ramasamy Periyar's legacy at the Self-Respect Movement and its Legacies Conference 2025 at Oxford, reiterating his government's commitment to the Dravidian path.

Taking to social media platform X, CM Stalin wrote that 'Thanthai' (father) Periyar's Self-Respect Movement symbolised "revolutions without weapons - without bloodshed."

CM Stalin released two books -- The Cambridge Companion to Periyar, edited by historian A R V Chalapathy and Dr K R Manoharan, and The Dravidian Pathway, authored by researcher Dr K R Venkatesh -- describing them as works carrying Periyar's thoughts and documenting how the social reform movement became a mass politi...