Lower Class People as Shown by Naladiyar

Abstract

People are living in a society where they are not getting any of the basic necessities of life and are struggling to fulfil those basic needs every day. So the economy is the biggest problem in their lives. And in terms of the economy, such people have to depend on the people at the top of society. The above reasons push such people to the status of base people. And even though economically backward people are called lower class people, such people can definitely recover from it and make efforts to raise their economy. But the question arises whether it is possible to live dependent on those at the top based on the economy, listen to the rhetoric of inferiority, and then acquire the rhetoric of superiority. It is also worth noting that people in such a situation have been recorded in association with their caste from early to modern literature. Although the so-called lower class people are said to go to the lowest level due to many factors, efforts can be made to recover from them and move to the top. But if we push them to the bottom with the rhetoric of cashless caste, we should also think about how they can rise above. As a result of thinking like that, this research has been carried out in order to find answers to questions like: what kind of explanation does the book Naladiyar give to the sayings of lower class people, and what is the basis of the distinction between superior and inferior?