How the Dravidian Model of Development Succeeded in Tamil Nadu https://thewire.in/books/how-the-dravidian-model-of-development-succeeded-in-tamil-nadu
In prioritising the counter hegemonic articulations of the plebes against the exploitative Brahminical social order, Dravidianism evolved a new common sense of equity as the bedrock of popular, electoral democracy.
review of A. Kalaiyarasan and M. Vijayabaskar’s The Dravidian Model: Interpreting Political Economy of Tamil Nadu,
the sub-national variant in the developmental path produced in Tamil Nadu is the product of Dravidian political ideology. As we have seen, this variant mitigates the trend to rising inequality seen all over the world and ensures effective redistribution through state measures.
If this process is to be translated into the paradigm of capitalist transition that Piketty uses, it is possible to say that the Dravidian movement intervened in the transition of a society dominated by clergy and nobility to that of an ownership society resulting in the hegemony of the propertied class which once again accentuates inequality after a brief hiatus of reduction in inequality with the advent of democracy or social democracy.
In prioritising the counter hegemonic articulations of the plebes against the exploitative Brahminical social order – the disenfranchised sections of the ternary society in Piketty’s terms – for a fair share in economic growth and governance, Dravidianism evolved a new common sense of equity as the bedrock of popular, electoral democracy.