The Self-Respect movement was started by the Ramaswamy Naicker in 1925 with S. Ramanathan.
He was a highly influential person in Tamil Nadu.
This movement was basically the fight for the backward cast to have self-respect in society.
This is also called the Dravidian Movement, the self-respect movement was basically demanding the equal right for the backward cast, and the main focus of this movement was women's rights.