KERALA PSC / RENAISSANCE LEADERS OF KERALA / KURIAKOSE ELIAS CHAVARA / NOTES

 

KERALA PSC / RENAISSANCE LEADERS OF KERALA / KURIAKOSE ELIAS CHAVARA / NOTES

KERALA PSC / RENAISSANCE LEADERS OF KERALA / KURIAKOSE ELIAS CHAVARA / NOTES

·       The Blessed Kuriakose Elias Chavara, was the co-founder and first Prior General of the first congregation for men in the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church, now known as the Carmelites of Mary Immaculate, and of a similar one for women, the Sisters of the Mother of Carmel

·       He was also a social reformer, an educationalist and had played a major and significant role in educating women and people of lower sections of society

·       He first introduced the system called “A school along with every church” which was successful in making education and knowledge available for everyone for free. Thus, schools in Kerala are also called ‘pallikudam’ (‘palli’ means church)

·       Chavara was beautified, along with Saint Alphonsa, on February 8, 1986, by Pope John Paul II, in the course of a papal visit to India. His memorial is celebrated on January 3

 

KERALA PSC / RENAISSANCE LEADERS OF KERALA / KURIAKOSE ELIAS CHAVARA / NOTES

KERALA PSC / RENAISSANCE LEADERS OF KERALA / VAKKOM MOULAVI / NOTES

 

KERALA PSC / RENAISSANCE LEADERS OF KERALA / VAKKOM MOULAVI / NOTES

KERALA PSC / RENAISSANCE LEADERS OF KERALA / VAKKOM MOULAVI / NOTES

 

·       Vakkom Muhammed Abdul Khadir Moulavi, popularly known as Vakkom Moulavi was a social reformer, teacher, prolific writer, Muslim scholar, journalist, freedom fighter and newspaper proprietor in Travancore, a princely state of the present day Kerala, India.

·       He was the founder and publisher of the newspaper Swadeshabhimani which was banned and confiscated by the Government of Travancore in 1910 due to its criticisms against the government and the Diwan of Travancore, P.R Rajagopalachari

 

KERALA PSC / RENAISSANCE LEADERS OF KERALA / VAKKOM MOULAVI / NOTES

KERALA PSC / RENAISSANCE LEADERS OF KERALA / DR. PALPU / NOTES

 KERALA PSC / RENAISSANCE LEADERS OF KERALA / DR. PALPU / NOTES

KERALA PSC / RENAISSANCE LEADERS OF KERALA / DR. PALPU / NOTES

 

·       Padmanabhan Palpu was a bacteriologist and social revolutionary

·       Dr.Palpu was a relentless fighter for the cause of the Ezhavas in Kerala

·       He wrote many articles in English newspapers published from India highlighting the degrading customs in Kerala that made the condition of the Ezhavas miserable

·       He formed the ‘Greater Ezhava Association’. The first meeting held at Thiruvananthapuram. He decide to submit a mass petition to the government signed by ten thousand Ezhavas demanding the abolition of the discrimination against them. Dr. Palpu himself took the initiative to get the signatures, and on 1896 September 3^rd the petition, the historically famous ‘Ezhava Memorial’ signed by 13176 people was submitted to the Government

 

KERALA PSC / RENAISSANCE LEADERS OF KERALA / DR. PALPU / NOTES

KERALA PSC / RENAISSANCE LEADERS OF KERALA / V.T BHATTATHIRIPAD / NOTES

 

KERALA PSC / RENAISSANCE LEADERS OF KERALA / V.T BHATTATHIRIPAD / NOTES

KERALA PSC / RENAISSANCE LEADERS OF KERALA / V.T BHATTATHIRIPAD / NOTES

·       V.T Bhattathiripad (1896-1982) was an Indian social critic, well-known dramatist and a prominent freedom fighter

·       He encouraged widow marriage in the Brahmin society and tried to reform the conservative practices of the “Namboodiri community in particular and the society at large”

·       He conducted the first mixed-race marriage in the Brahmin society. He is credited with starting the progressive theater movement of Kerala during which “the stage and performance became a highly conscious social activity in the hands of social reformers and political activists”

·       His drama Adukkalayilninnum Arangathekku was a turning point in this context

 

KERALA PSC / RENAISSANCE LEADERS OF KERALA / V.T BHATTATHIRIPAD / NOTES

KERALA PSC / RENAISSANCE LEADERS OF KERALA / MANNATHU PADMANABHAN / NOTES

 

KERALA PSC / RENAISSANCE LEADERS OF KERALA / MANNATHU PADMANABHAN / NOTES

KERALA PSC / RENAISSANCE LEADERS OF KERALA / MANNATHU PADMANABHAN / NOTES

 

·       Mannathu Padmanabhan (January 2, 1878-February 25, 1970) was a social reformer and a freedom fighter from the State of Kerala, India.

·       He is recognized as the founder of the Nair Service Society. Padmanabhan is considered as a visionary reformer who organized the Nair community under the NSS

·       He fought for social equality, the first phase of being the Vaikom Satyagraha, demanding the public roads near the temple at Vaikom be opened to low caste Hindus

·       In 1924 he took part in the Vaikom and Guruvayoor temple-entry and anti-untouchability agitation

·       In 1949 Padmanabhan became a member of the Travancore Legislative Assembly

·       He was honoured with the title Bharata Kesari by the President of India. He also received Padma Bhushan in 1966

 

KERALA PSC / RENAISSANCE LEADERS OF KERALA / MANNATHU PADMANABHAN / NOTES

KERALA PSC / RENAISSANCE LEADERS OF KERALA / PANDIT KARUPPAN / NOTES

 

KERALA PSC / RENAISSANCE LEADERS OF KERALA / PANDIT KARUPPAN / NOTES

KERALA PSC / RENAISSANCE LEADERS OF KERALA / PANDIT KARUPPAN / NOTES

 

·       Pandit Karuppan was a poet, dramatist and social reformer who lived in Kerala, India. He was born on May 24, 1885, at Cheranelloor, near Ernakulam

·       Pandit Karuppan emerged as a relentless crusader against untouchability and social evils

·       He was called the “Lincoln” of Kerala for steering socio-economically and educationally backward communities to the forefront

·       As the first human rights activist of the Cochin State, he used his literary skill and organizational ability to combat illiteracy, social injustice, casteism and superstitions

·       He campaigned for the rights of lower-caste people, who at that time were not even permitted to enter Ernakulam.

 

KERALA PSC / RENAISSANCE LEADERS OF KERALA / PANDIT KARUPPAN / NOTES

KERALA PSC / RENAISSANCE LEADERS OF KERALA / POIKAYIL YOHANNAN (KUMARA GURU) / NOTES

 

KERALA PSC / RENAISSANCE LEADERS OF KERALA / POIKAYIL YOHANNAN (KUMARA GURU) / NOTES

KERALA PSC / RENAISSANCE LEADERS OF KERALA / POIKAYIL YOHANNAN (KUMARA GURU) / NOTES

 

·       Poykayil Yohannan (Eraviperoor, 17 February 1878-1939), known as Poikayil Appachan to his followers, or Kumara Gurudevan

·       He was a Dalit activist, poet, Christian preacher and the founder of the socio-religious movement Prathyaksha Raksha Daiva Sabha (“God’s Church of Visible Salvation”)

·       He brought 125 acres of land in different parts of Travancore for the use of PRDS. The new organization was headquartered at Eraviperoor

·       Poikayil Yohannan set up schools and industrial training centers in different places in addition to constructing buildings for religious ceremonies and public functions

·       Poikayil Yohannan was also a member of the Dalit advocacy group Sadhujana Paripalana Sangham (SJPS) which had been founded in 1905 by another Dalit leader of Kerala, Ayyankali

·       Yohannan was also twice nominated, in the years 1921 and 1931, to the Sree Moolam Praja Sabha, the legislative council of the princely state of Travancore

 

KERALA PSC / RENAISSANCE LEADERS OF KERALA / POIKAYIL YOHANNAN (KUMARA GURU) / NOTES