Glossary in Tamil Nadu Political Thought

Glossary

Political Ideology : It is a certain set of ethical ideals, principles, doctrines, myths or symbols of a social movement, institution, class or large group that explains how society should work and offers some political and cultural blueprint for a certain social order.

Political Movement : It is a social group that operates together to obtain a political goal.

Social Movement : It is a type of group action. Social movements can be defined as organizational structures and strategies that may empower oppressed populations to mount effective challenges and resist the more powerful and advantaged elites.

Dravidian Movement : Dravidian movement developed in Madras Presidency which comprises the four major ethno-linguistic groups in South India.

Self-Respect Movement : The Self-Respect Movement is a movement with the aim of achieving a society where backward castes have equal human rights

Labour Movement : A movement organized for the betterment of labourers

Justice Party : Communal division between Brahmins and non-Brahmins began in the presidency during the late-19th and early-20th century, mainly due to caste prejudices and disproportionate Brahminical representation in government jobs.

Casteless Society : Of a society, an egalitarian society without caste structure Pure Tamil

Movement : Pure-Tamil Movement, a movement aimed at freeing the Tamil language from alien language words, particularly Sanskrit.

Social Freedom : The concept of interpersonal or social freedom refers to relationships of interaction between persons or groups, namely, that one actor leaves another actor, who is free to act in certain ways.

Home Rule Movement : Between the years 1916 and 1918, the Indian independence movement was sperarheaded by Dr. Besant's home rule league.

Politics : The activities associated with the governance of a country or area, especially the debate between parties having power.

Discrimination : The unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people, especially on the grounds of race, age, or sex.

Violence : behaviour involving physical force intended to hurt, damage, or kill someone or something.

Peace : It is the concept of harmony and the absence of hostility. In a behavioral sense, peace is a lack of conflict and freedom from fear of violence between individuals and heterogeneous social groups.

National Movement : A national movement is a social and political movement for obtaining and maintaining national identity and autonomy among a group of people that some of its members consider a nation.

Ideal State : It would be a nation state that only exists in the realm of ideas and does not exist or cannot exist in the material world. Everyone has their own concept of “ideal nation state”.

Welfare state : a system whereby the state undertakes to protect the health and well-being of its citizens.