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Figure 4.4 The Hindu, 2 October 1935.
For example, the popular story of Nandanar, the “Untouchable Saint”
(Dalit) was advertised as “a story of self-help and self-realisation which is
not without topical value at the present day; how a man, low born and
uncultured can rise superior to his surrounding influences through sheer
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force of his unconquerable faith is the moral of the story.” While devotional
