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100 Years of Vaikom satyagraha
April 6 , 2024
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- Vaikom, a temple town in the princely state of Travancore, saw the start of a non-violent agitation on March 30, 1924.
- This is the first among temple entry movements that would soon sweep across the country.
- The satyagraha had foregrounded social reform amidst the growing nationalist movement, bringing Gandhian methods of protest to the state of Travancore.
- The Vaikom satyagraha was sustained for over 600 days.
- The issue of temple entry was first raised by Ezhava leader T K Madhavan in a 1917 editorial in his paper Deshabhimani.
- Madhavan met Gandhi in 1921, and secured the Mahatma’s support for a mass agitation to enter temples.
- In the 1923 session of the INC in Kakinada, a resolution was passed by the Kerala Provincial Congress Committee to take up anti-untouchability as a key issue.
- In November 1936, the Maharaja of Travancore signed the historic Temple Entry Proclamation which removed the age-old ban on the entry of marginalised castes into the temples of the state.
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