From Revolt

This selection of articles from Revolt has been made, keeping in mind the historical conjuncture in which the magazine was published. For heuristic purposes, the selection has been arranged under different heads, and as readers will find out, most pieces can and ought to be read across chapters and sections. Each of the four parts comes with its own brief introduction. Each part is further subdivided into thematic sections – these relate to events, personalities, ideas or particular ideological concerns. Each section is further divided into sub-sections. In the latter, wherever they relate to the same idea or topic or event, texts have been grouped together. Wherever necessary, we have provided brief notes on events and personalities.

We have reproduced the text of the articles as found in the original. Revolt appears to have not standardised spelling and transliteration of Tamil names and places and we have not attempted such a standardisation ourselves.
With regard to the issues of Revolt that were made available to us, a few were not readable at all. With respect to the rest, we have attempted to be accurate in our transcriptions of the original texts and retained original spelling and transliteration practices, even where these appear inconsistent to modern editorial taste. Wherever sentences appear unclear or have been smudged by time and indifference, we have used ellipses to indicate incompleteness.

We would like to thank all those who have supported our work, especially Punitha Pandian and Kolathur Mani for sustaining a consistent anti-caste politics in Tamil Nadu, and for giving their all to make this book possible. Special thanks are also due to Thamaraikannan of Periyar Dravidar Kazhagam and K.Buvanasekar for helping us prepare the manuscript; C. Arumugam for assisting with design and Shubashree for preparing the index.