The atrocious casteist brahminism that had crept into hinduism through centuries of manipulations by one class that used brahminical arguments to suffocate and subjugate a majority of the people was defeated and hinduism was saved. the revolutionary movement of periyar was kept alive by the unparaleled leadership of karunanidhi. were it not for that movement,vast numbers of so called lower castes would still not have been allowed into temples and would have joined other religions in bigger numbers. periyar,annadurai and karunanidhi are the saviours of hinduism.