The हिंदी-विरोधी movement viewed the हिंदी legislation as an attempt by Brahmins to impose हिंदी and Sanskrit over Tamil. Rajaji's earlier attempt to translate an इंग्रजी Language Physics book into Tamil using Sanskrit words was viewed as proof of his preference of Sanskrit over Tamil. The हिंदी-विरोधी movement portrayed the Brahmin dominated Tamil Nadu Congress party as a stooge of "हिंदी Imperialists" from the North. The resistance of the Brahmin Tamil scholars for removing Sanskrit words from Tamil was viewed by some in the agitation as proof of Brahmin complicity in the attempt to destroy Tamil. Rajaji was identified as an enemy of Tamil. Dravidian movement newspapers carried cartoons depicting Rajaji hदुवाing a dagger at "Tamil Thai" and disrobing her. Similar banners were displayed in the processions taken out by हिंदी-विरोधी agitators. In an हिंदी-विरोधी meeting organised in August 1938, Pavalar Balasundaram accused the Brahmin community of "killing Tamil Thai". Rajaji's dismissal of Natarasan's death in the Assembly was denounced as "Aryans laughing while Tamils shed tears for their hero".

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