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Padmanabhan Palpu (2 November 1863 – 25 January 1950) was a physician from the Kingdom of Travancore who served as a chief medical officer of Mysore State. He led social activism for the Ezhava community in Kerala and a led a movement for social equality.
SNDP was founded in 1903 by Dr. Padmanabhan Palpu with the guidance and blessings of Narayana Guru. SNDP was the first organization to envisage Kerala as a whole. Vavoottu Yogam expanded and formed an organization known as Aruvippuram Kshetra Yogam. The Aruvippuram Temple Society, known as Vavoottu Yogam emerged in 1888.
In May 1895 Dr Palpu himself submitted a petition to Diwan Shankarasubbayar in his own capacity. When the discussion with the Diwan did not yield any results, under his leadership, in September 1896, a petition signed by 13176 members of the Ezhava community was submitted to the King, which came to be known as the Ezhava Memorial. [6]
An early Ezhava campaigner and their "political father", according to Ritty Lukose, was Padmanabhan Palpu. [45] In 1896, he organised a petition of 13,176 signatories that was submitted to the Maharajah of the princely state of Travancore, asking for government recognition of the Ezhavas' right to work in public administration and to have ...
The foundations of social change in Kerala can be traced back to the 16th century. The emergence of the Bhakti movement and the development of the modern Malayalam language and the influence of figures like Thunchaththu Ezhuthachan led to the breaking of Brahmin dominance over literature and knowledge.
The Ezhava are a prominent community in Kerala making up approximately 25% of the state's population. The following is a list of notable members of the Ezhava community.
Padmanabhan Palpu (1963–1950), a bacteriologist and social revolutionary; Padmanabhan Sivadas, an Indian cricketer; Sundararajan Padmanabhan, the former Chief of Army Staff of the Indian Army; Thanu Padmanabhan (1957–2021), an Indian theoretical physicist; Thinakkal Padmanabhan, a short story writer
Padmanabhan Palpu, physician from the Kingdom of Travancore who served as a chief medical officer of Mysore State. [15] S. S. Badrinath, ophthalmologist, founder of Sankara Nethralaya; C.O. Karunakaran, bacteriologist and founder of Government Medical College, Thiruvananthapuram [16] V. Mohan, diabetologist and Padma Shri recipient [17]