JAMMU, Sept. 17 -- While speaking on this occasion Sham Lal Basson Gen Secy and former councilor said that E V Ramaswami was born in 1879 in the district of Erode in then Madras in a rich family of Shudra caste.A great thinker EV Ramaswami became the unchallengeable mass leader.Periyar started independent Rationalist Self Respect Movement. He declared that the objectives of his group was to establish a castless society on the basis of principles of equality; a society where there shall be Superstitions, orthodoxy and social ill. With his tremendous pressure the Government of Madras started giving reservation in jobs for sc st obc in 1928-29. Later on it was stopped on the ground that this provision was not enshrined in the Constitution of I...