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Prominent reformist leaders such as Narayana Guru and Ayyankali hailed from castes that were deemed lower in the social hierarchy of 19th century Kerala. Consequently, leaders like Guru and Ayyankali focused on the abolition of the caste system rather than its reformation.
He criticized superstitious beliefs and orthodoxy practiced among the Muslim community and asked them to distance themselves from such acts. He helped form Kerala m Aikya Sangam in 1922, the first socio-religious organization of Muslims of Kerala. [8] The organization aimed to promote Muslims unity, education and to settle disputes among ...
Kumbalathuparambu Ayyappan (21 August 1889 – 6 March 1968), better identified as Sahodaran Ayyappan, was a social reformer, thinker, rationalist, journalist, and politician from Kerala, India. As a vocal follower of Sree Narayana Guru , he was associated with a number of events related to the Kerala reformation movement and was the organizer ...
The protests expanded to become a movement seeking rights of access to the interior of the temples themselves. These peaceful protests inspired the future, it widely criticized that Temple Entry Declaration was done in order to prevent backward caste people from converting in mass to Christianity.
Rao Sahib Ayyathan Gopalan (3 March 1861 – 2 May 1948), popularly known as Darsarji and Darsar Sahib ("Darsar" means "doctor", derived from Latin word "docere" for doctor), was an Indian doctor, surgeon, professor, writer, philanthropist, social reformer, and Renaissance leader from Kerala.
A number of Kerala youth were jailed during this period for participating in ‘violation of law’ movement as part of independence movement. At this time Kiran Chandra Das (brother of Jithendra Das ), Kamal Nath Thivari , Sen Gupta , T.N. Chandravarthi and Sarath Chandra Acharya were in a Kannur jail and Jayadev Kapur in a Vellore jail.
Vakkom Mohammed Abdul Khader Moulavi (() 28 December 1873 – () 31 October 1932), popularly known as Vakkom Moulavi [5] was a social reformer, [6] teacher, prolific writer, Muslim scholar, journalist, freedom fighter and newspaper proprietor in Travancore, a princely state of the present day Kerala, India.
Nossiter, Thomas Johnson (1982), "Kerala's identity: unity and diversity", Communism in Kerala: a study in political adaptation, University of California Press, ISBN 978-0-520-04667-2 Oommen, T. K. (September 2001), "Civil Society: Religion, Caste and Language in India", Sociological Bulletin , 50 (2): 219– 235, doi : 10.1177/0038022920010204 ...