page_title: Rettamalai Srinivasan
section_title: Memorials
hierarchical_section_title: Rettamalai Srinivasan / Memorials
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context_page_description: Rettamalai Srinivasan, commonly known as R. Srinivasan, was a Scheduled Caste activist and politician from the then Madras Presidency of British India. He is a Dalit icon and was a close associate of Mahatma Gandhi and was also an associate of B. R. Ambedkar. He is remembered today as one of the pioneers of the Scheduled caste movement in India.
context_section_description: Commemorative stamps have been issued in memory of Rettamalai Srinivasan by the Department of Posts of the Government of India. Cadres of the Viduthalai Siruthaigal party claimed to have discovered the remains of the Paraiyar leader in Otteri and constructed a memorial over his mortal remains and named it Urimai Kalam. On 6 July 2011, Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa had directed that his birth anniversary on 7 July be observed as a government function and ministers to honour him by garlanding his statue located inside Gandhi Mandapam, Chennai.
  His grandson B. Parameswaran became a minister in the Government of Tamil Nadu and a member of the Indian parliament.
caption: Statue of Rettamalai Srinivasan, Gandhi Mandapam, Chennai
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