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Temple Entry Movement

  • October 31, 2021
  • Posted by: OptimizeIAS Team
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Temple Entry Movement

Subject – History

Context – Brutal attack on Dalits as they turned up for the installation ceremony at a temple

Concept –

  • Vaikom, in the northern part of Travancore, became a centre of agitation for temple entry.
  • In 1924, the Vaikom Satyagraha led by P. Kesava, was launched in Kerala demanding the throwing open of Hindu temples and roads to the untouchables.
  • The satyagraha was reinforced by jathas from Punjab and Madurai.
  • Gandhi undertook a tour of Kerala in support of the movement.
  • Significant work in this direction had already been done by reformers and intellectuals like Sree Narayana Guru and Kumaran Asan.
  • K. Madhavan, a prominent social reformer and editor of Deshabhimani, took up the issue of temple entry with the Travancore administration.
  • Again in 1931 when the Civil Disobedience Movement was suspended, temple entry movement was organised in Kerala. Inspired by Kelappan, poet SubramaniyamTirumambu (the ‘singing sword of Kerala’) led a group of sixteen volunteers to Guruvayur.
  • Leaders like Krishna Pillai and A.K. Gopalan were among the satyagrahis.
  • Finally, on November 12, 1936, the Maharaja of Travancore issued a proclamation throwing open all government-controlled temples to all Hindus.
  • A similar step was taken by the Rajagopalachari administration in Madras in 1938.
History Temple Entry Movement

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