The government responded with a crackdown resulting in the death of two protesters and the arrest of 1,198 persons including women and children. The agitation, which lasted three years, was multifaceted and involved fasts, conferences, marches, picketing and protests.
Ramasamy (Periyar) and the opposition Justice Party (later Dravidar Kazhagam). The first anti-Hindi agitation was launched in 1937, in opposition to the introduction of compulsory teaching of Hindi in the schools of Madras Presidency by the first Indian National Congress government led by C. The agitations involved several mass protests, riots, student and political movements in Tamil Nadu, and concerned the official status of Hindi in the state and in the Indian Republic.
The Anti-Hindi agitations of Tamil Nadu were a series of agitations that happened in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu (formerly Madras State and part of Madras Presidency) during both pre- and post-Independence periods.
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