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Malayali Memorial, , Travancore on 3rd Sept 1896., The Travancore Ezhava Sabha, , • The Malayali Memorial was a, petition, , submitted, , too, , the, , Maharaja of Travancore on . on, , took the initiative in preparing, and, , presenting, , the memorial., , January 1, 1891 against the, appointment of Tamil Brahmins, in Government Service., , • It, , was, , signed, , members, , of, , community.It, • It drew the attention of the, , among, , by, the, , 13176, Ezhava, , pleaded, , for, , things,, , the, , other, , Maharaja to the exclusion of the, , extension of civil rights and, , educated natives from the higher, , government jobs to members of, , grades of public service. It was, , the, , drafted on the basis of a popular, , Ezhavas in particular., , cry, , Travancore, , lower, , castes, , and, , the, , for, • The Ezhava Memorial requested, , Travancoreans’., , the Maharaja to confer on the, • The brain behind the Malayali, , Ezhavas the same rights and, , Memorial was Barister G.P. Pillai, , privileges, , and, , It, , enjoyed by those of their caste, , symbolised the emergence of, , who had become converts to, , the new educated middle class, , Christianity., , K.P., , Sankaramenon., , which, , were, , being, , as a force to be reckoned with, • It also pleaded for the opening of, Ezhava Memorial, • Ezhava, Palpu, , public schools to the Ezhavas.It, , Memorial, is, , a, , under, , Dr., , memorandum, , submitted to the Maharaja of, , demanded that the Ezhavas be, made, , beneficiaries, , of, , these, , rights and privileges enjoyed by
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allow entry for untouchables into, , immediate, , the Guruvayur Temple., , temple entry for the Avarnas., , • The, , uncompromising, , attitude, , objective,, , namely, , Temple Entry Proclamation, , of the trustees of the temple.Viz., Zamorin led to the closure of the, temple, , for, , a, , short, , • The Temple Entry Proclamation, issued, , by, , Maharaja, , Chithira, , while, Guruvayur captured all, , Thirunal Balarama Varma, last, , India attention and the Zamorin, , king of Thiruvithamkoor, in 1936, , was, , abolished the ban on the so-, , requested, , to, , concede, , the demands of the Satyagrahis,, , called, , ‘low-caste, , people’, , or, , but of no avail., , avarnas from entering Hindu, temples in the Princely State of, , • The Satyagraha began on 1st, November,, , 1931, , with, , Travancore ., , the, , blessings of Gandhi. It was led, , • On, , his, , 24th, , birthday,, , he, , by K. Kelappan, who undertook, , proclaimed that all Hindus by, , a hunger strike for 12 days. K., , birth, , Kelappan,, , castes, will be allowed entry to, , Mannathu, , Padmanabhan,, , A.K, , all, , or, , faith,, , temples, , despite, under, , their, the, , Gopalan(volunteer captain) and, , governance of Thiruvithamkoor, , N.P DamodaranNair were the, , government. The event charted, , leaders of that agitation., , a new course in the history of, Kerala and India., , • The, , majority, , approved, , the, , of, , the, , people, , proposal, , for, , • The Ezhava Memorial, Vaikom, , temple entry. The Guruvayur, , Satyagraha,, , Satyagraha failed to achieve its, , Prakshobam, , Nivarthana, and, , Guruvayoor
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Satyagraha, , had, , already, , triggered many waves in the, Kerala society and the temple, entry proclamation was a perfect, successor to them., • In, , the, , wake, , movements,, , of, , Chithira, , these, Thirunal, , created a committee to study the, different aspects of allowing the, untouchables entry to temples in, 1932. Later in 1934, it was, decided that every public roads, and, , inns, , kingdom, , and, could, , wells, be, , in, , used, , the, by, , people of all castes., • In 1936 November, as per the, advice of Gandhi, a petition, signed by 50,522 Hindus of, forward castes was submitted to, the, , king., , The, , favourable, , decision of the committee and, the huge public support to the, cause encouraged the king to, carry out the proclamation.
