• The Justice party was formed by non-Brahmin elites in 1917.
• The Justice party originated with the Madras United League which was initially started as a work group that helped non-Brahmin students in Madras with accommodation and later grew into a political party under the efforts of leaders like [[C. Natesa Mudaliar]], [[P. Theagaraya Chetty]] and [[T. M. Nair]].
• The party was named South Indian Liberal Federation (S. I. L. F.) – popularly known as Justice party.
• The party had been in power in Madras Presidency since self-governance was introduced in 1920, until it was defeated by the Indian National Congress in 1937.
• By the time Annadurai joined the Justice party, Periyar was the party president. Annadurai served as the sub-editor of the Justice magazine.
• He later became the editor for Viduthalai (Freedom in English) and was also associated with the Tamil weekly paper, Kudi Arasu.
• He started his own journal Dravida Nadu (named after the Dravida Nadu – an independent state that the party called for).
• In 1944, Periyar renamed the Justice party to Dravidar Kazhagam and gave up contesting in the elections.