Known more by her prefix ‘Muvalur’, Ramamirtham (1883-1962) was a contemporary of Muthulakshmi Reddy (1886-1968). Both fought hard to abolish the Devadasi system. Along with E.V. Ramasamy, Ramamirtham left the Congress in 1926 and threw herself into anti-Hindi campaigns launched in 1938 and 1948