Vaikom Satyagraha 1924 Background
In AICC (All India Congress Committee) meeting in Kakinada 1923, T. K Madhavan along with Sardar Panikkar and K. P. Kesava Menon submitted a petition to the Travancore legislative council appealing to grant the right to temple entry and worship of gods for all sections of the society irrespective of caste, creed, and community while giving continuous memorandums to the Royal Government for abolishing and the ban for marginalized and depressed castes to access Vaikom’s temple and roads.
The efforts of T.K Madhavan were heard and the Congress party considered the eradication of untouchability in their forthcoming constructive programs and owed to lend full support to the Vaikom Movement. The charges for this constructive program were passed to Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC). Thus as per the Kakinada Congress resolution and considering its importance and need the KPCC held a meeting on 24 January 1924, at Ernakulam to give the initial shape and thus form an Untouchability Abolition Committee (UAC) with leading heads namely T. K. Madhavan, Kurur Neelakandan Namboodiripad, K. Kelappan (convener), T R Krishnaswamy Iyer, and K. Velayudha Menon. Five other members including T. K. Madhavan were core members of A Publicity Committee to propagate the movement.
Vaikom Satyagraha
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The Vaikom Satyagraha in Travancore is today known as Kerala is the first anti-caste movement. This movement was against the caste system as the pupil of the depressed class and untouchables were restricted from entering the temple. The movement originated and took its place at Vaikom, then part of the princely state Travancore in the vicinity of Mahadev temple in Kottayam district of Kerala during the period of 1924-1925.