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Abstention movement, , hold the most important posts in, , (NIVARTHANA AGITATION IN, , the public service., , TRAVANCORE), •, , •, , The princely State of Travancore, , lies, , had, , and, , discrimination being followed by, , agitations of a political character, , the government of Travancore in, , from the very beginning of the, , providing, , British period. The aim ot the, , various castes and communities, , agitations was the establishment, , in the Legislature and public, , of good government and the, , services., , its, , own, , struggles, , achievement of political rights, , •, , The, , in, , the, , policy, , of, , representation, , membership, , of, , to, , the, , like the association of the people, , Legislature and public services, , with, , was, , the, , various, , levels, , of, , administration., •, , The genesis of this movement, , There, , the, , monopoly, , of, , the, , savarnas like the Brahmins, the, , was, , widespread, , Kshatriyas and the Nairs who, , resentment among the educated, , constituted only the minority of, , classes, , the population., , against, , the, , government’s policy of importing, persons, , from, , •, , The, , bulk, , of, , the, , Hindu, , outside,, , community comprised of the, , particularly Tamil Brahmins to, , Ezhavas, Depressed classes etc, together with the Christians and
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Muslims, , were, , denied, , the, , All Travancore Samyukta Rashtriya, , privilege of representation in the, , Samiti, , Legislature and public services, , •, , As the Government’s attitude, , in proportion to their numerical, , was, , strength., , Abstentionists, they formed an, , Qualification for franchise, , not, , favourable, , the, , organisation of their own to, , The main qualification for franchise, , achieve, , their, , demands.They, , or vote in the elections to the, , called it Joint Political Congress, , Legislature, , or, , was, , payment, , of, , a, , prescribed amount as an annual tax, on property. This property qualification, restricted, members, , the, , to, , Samithi., •, , In a meeting held on Jan 25,, 1933,, , the, , Samithi, , took, , the, , momentous decision to abstain, , communities like the Nairs. The vast, , from voting in the elections to, , majority of the people who belonged, , the legislature. Thus was born, , to, , the Abstention agitation. The, , Avarna, , the, , right, , Rashtriya, , advanced, , the, , of, , franchise, , Samyuktha, , communities, , and, , religious minorities got practically little, , Abstentionists, , or no representation at all., , vigorous agitation all over the, state, , against, , carried, , the, , constitutional reforms., , on, , a, , new
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C.Kesavan,, , N.V.Joseph, , and, , marked, , the, , end, , of, , constitutional, , P.K.Kunju emerged as the leaders of, , agitation and the beginning of direct, , the agitation. It was in connection with, , action in politics. It also paved the way, , the Abstention movement that C., , for the formation of Travancore State, , Kesavan delivered his famous speech, , Congress and the Cochin State Praja, , at Kozhencherry-Pathanamthitta (11, , Mandal., , May,1935) for which he was arrested, , Kerala pradesh congress committe, , and, , punished., , the, , • The formation of KPCC turned, , of, , out to be the significant land, , repression, it conceded the demands, , mark in the process of Kerala, , of the agitationists.It appointed a, , state, , public service commissioner to ensure, , pradesh, , congress, , fair representation to the backward, , [KPCC], , was, , communities in public services., , Malabar,, , government, , Although, , adopted, , a, , policy, , .The Government also agreed to, allot a specific number of seats in the, legislature, , for, , The, , kerala, , committee, , organised for, Kochi, , and, , Thiruvitamkur., • The, , Kerala Pradesh political, , three, , conference held at Ottapalamin, , communities.The final outcome of this, , 1921 was attended by people, , agitation, , from these three territories. The, , was, , to, , the, , formation., , break, , up, , the, , monopoly of political power enjoyed, , princely, , state, , by the upper caste Hindus.It also, , conference, , and, , peoples, all, , Kerala
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Kudiyan (tenant) conference, in, , inaugurated by the king of kochi-, , 1928, , separate, , Demanted that the Kerala state should, , resolutions demanding ‘ Aikya, , be formed with the princely sates of, , Keralam’ (Unified Kerala)., , Kochi and, , adopted, , Tiruvitamkur and the, , The combined meeting of the, , British occupied Malayalam speaking, , KPCC,Kochin state peoples Congress, , areas and Mahe, considering the, , and Tiruvitamkur state congress held, , geographical,, , in 1945 discussed the plans and, , economic and administrative aspects., , lnguistic,, , cultural,, , programmes to be adopted for the, formation of Kerala into a separate, , Congress Socialist Party, or (CSP), , state. The Sub-committee held its, , Congress Socialist Party, or (CSP),, , meeting at Cheruthuruthy in October, , was a left-wing group within the, , 1946 and decided to organize wider, , Congress. It was formed with Acharya, , meeting of representatives from all, , Narendra Deva as President and Jay, , over, , Prakash, , the, , state., , The, , ‘AikyaKerala, , Narayan, , as, , General, , Convention’ was held at Thrissur in, , Secretary in 1934., , April 1947, which, , party was due to the increased left, , was attended by, , the representatives from all over, , influence, , Kerala., , Congress. By 1935, one third of the, , The meeting was presided by the, congress, , leader,, , K.Kelappan, , and, , in, , the, , The rise of this, , Indian, , National, , Congress members were Congress, Socialists.
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These leaders rejected the idea of, Gandhi (which they saw as antirational)., , Though,, , they, , remained, , active in the workers and peasants, movement, they rejected the sectarian, attitude of the Communist Party of, India., , They, , were, , Marxism-Leninism., , influenced, The, , by, , members, , ranged from the advocates of arms, struggle, , to, , nonviolent, , resistance., , Many communists joined the CSP, it, adopted Marxism in 1936.
