Movement Mohan Ram Equating poverty with race, and race with caste, E V Ramaswami Naicker founded the Dravidian movement to fight Aryan 'domination' which to him was synonymous with Brahmin domination and Brahminism. His anti-Brahmin movement had elements of Jyotiba Phule's Satyashodhak movement in Maharashtra and also a secessionist content. Even after Independence, Naicker's movement continued to represent the strong Tamil reaction to Brahminism as also the assertion of Tamil indentity vis-a-vis the rest of India.