KERALA PSC / RENAISSANCE LEADERS OF KERALA / AYYA
VAIKUNDAR / NOTES
KERALA PSC / RENAISSANCE LEADERS OF KERALA / AYYA
VAIKUNDAR / NOTES
· Ayya Vaikundar (1809-1851), a great humanist and social
thinker, lived in the Princely Kingdom of Travancore in the early decades of
the 19th Century
· He is the first well known social reformer in India who
critiqued the caste discrimination and religious hierarchy and fought against
the practice of untouchability.
· Huis exhortation ‘ONE CASTE, ONE RELIGION, ONE CLAN, ONE
WORLD, ONE GOD’ is world famous. He was against idol worship. He did not allow
the portraitores to draw his figure. No evidence of any picture or any of his
human figure are kept to prove his visual identity
· His theory and practice like ‘samathva samajam’, ‘sama
panthi bhojan’, ‘thottu namam podunkal’, were much enough to cultivate a
thought of equality and unity in Indian minds
KERALA PSC / RENAISSANCE LEADERS OF KERALA / AYYA
VAIKUNDAR / NOTES
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