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	AYYAN-KALI
		Ayyankali grew up to be a tall, well built and handsome young man. He was known for his physical prowess and proficiency in martial arts.
		Ayyankali was tolerant towards all religions, he gave support to the struggle begun by PJ Joseph.
		Ayyankali retracted from any efforts to compete in organisational matters with his son in-law in public; and a clear divide had formed in the body of the Sangham.
	ambedkar.org /books/AYYAN-KALI.htm (19689 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Ayyankali
		Ayyankali (1863 - 1914) was a leader of the Indian lower caste Harijans ("Untouchables").
		Ayyankali was born in 1863 at Perunkattuvila in Venganoor in Thiruvananthapuram District in Kerala.
		In November 1980, then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi unveiled a statue of Ayyankali.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Ayyankali (171 words)

	Ayyankali - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ayyankali (1863 - 1914) was a leader of the Indian lower caste Dalits ("Untouchables").
		Ayyankali was born in 1863 at Perunkattuvila in Venganoor, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala.
		Ayyankali organized Dalits and fought against these discriminations.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ayyankali (159 words)

	Welcome to Kudassanad.com
		Ayyankali was born Kali to Ayyan and Mala of Vanganoor, 13 km North of Thiruvananthapuram in Travancore, on 28 August 1863 as one of their seven children in the Pulaya caste.
		While playing football with children of his age the ball kicked by Ayyankali fell on the roof of the house of a Nair, who was very angry and forbade him to play with upper caste children.
		Ayyankali formed an organization called "Sadhu Jana Paripalana Sangham (SJPS)" which took radical direct action to achieve justice for the oppressed and subjugated community.
	www.kudassanad.com /html/saints.htm (4570 words)

	Ayyankali’s 143rd birth anniversary celebration
		Ayyankali’s 143rd birth anniversary celebrations are being conducted at different parts of the state.
		Ayyankali was born on 14th Chingam, ME 1039 at Perunkattuvila in Venganoor in Trivandrum District.
		Scheduled caste welfare Minister A. Anil Kumar in the presence of Kodikunnil Suresh and Ayyankali's grandson Sasidharan paid floral tribute at Ayyankali Square in Vellayambalam in Thiruvananthapuram.
	www.my-kerala.com /cgi-bin/n/viewnews.cgi?newsid1126863742,11364, (83 words)

	Dalit Renaissance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Ayyankali was born in 1863 in venganoor in Trivandrum.
		This samgham led many struggles The perinattu riot for school admission, the discarding of “Kallumala” that the pulayas had worn as part of the caste regulation that hurt their pride and similar activities were also significant.
		The subject of conversion to christianity was not directly connected with Ayyankali Movement.
	www.saxakali.com /southasia/Dalit_renaissance.htm (3512 words)

	Anweshi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The temple entry proclamation of 1936 erased most of the discrimination against the low class communities.
		The great social reformer Ayyankali belongs to this community.
		The teachings of the great saint Sree Narayana Guru provided the Ezhavas with the necessary impetus to form The Sree Narayana Dharmaparipalana Yogam in 1903.
	www.malayali.com /religion.htm (543 words)

	Still the untouchable
		It is an irony that while Congress president Sonia Gandhi is keen to participate in the Platinum Jubilee of the satyagraha and thereby hog the limelight, the national leadership of the party was at that time in two minds on lending itsname and strength to the agitation which was more social than religious.
		It was in this milieu that Ayyankali, an illiterate Pulaya leader, began organising the docile Pulaya community.
		It is a truism that thefirst agricultural labour strike in Kerala that he organised was not to demand more wages but for the rights of the Pulayas to send their children to schools.
	www.expressindia.com /ie/daily/19990331/iex31073.html (1064 words)

	Sivaraja Yoga
		Ayyankali organized healthy Harijans and fought against the un touchability.
		During the feasts of, thaipooyam Ayya served meals (traditional Travancore sadyas on plantain leaf) to Ayyankali along with Brahmins, members of upper castes and himself.
		He set apart his life to achieve dignity of dalits, the right to use public roads, the freedom of dalit women to cover their torso, their education.
	drkanam1.tripod.com /sivarajayoga/index.blog?start=1057356727 (4622 words)

	domain-B : Indian business : companies : coca cola india : Coca-Cola faces ire as Kerala Maoist group ransacks go-down
		Kochi: The members of the Ayyankali Pada, claimed to be a Maoist group, have ransacked a go-down of Coca-Cola and other soft drink products at Kadavanthara, near here, and tried to set it ablaze.
		Members of the Ayyankali Pada have in recent years planned or resorted to a series of sporadic but high-profile acts of violence in Kerala, seeking to highlight perceived instances of injustice and inequity.
		In one sensational instance, they held hostage for nine hours the district collector of Palakkad, W R Reddy, in his office in 1996, over the issue of allotment of land to tribal people.
	www.domain-b.com /companies/companies_c/coca-cola_india/20030831_ransacks.htm (392 words)

	The Hindu : Ayyankali Pada ransacks KSEB office
		The group reportedly told the sweeper that it was part of the Ayyankali Pada and that it was going to burn the files and furniture.
		A statement issued in the name of the Ayyankali Pada said there was no point in just protesting the visit of Mr.
		The Ayyankali Pada signed off the statement with a call to rebel against the ``colonialist murderer Clinton and his Indian establishment''.
	www.hinduonnet.com /thehindu/2000/03/25/stories/04252119.htm (343 words)

	National Campaign on Dalit Human Rights (NCDHR)
		On December 7, the Rally held its first meeting at Thiruvangur, the birthplace of Dalit leader Ayyankali, who demanded equal rights for Dalits and education for Dalit girls.
		The Rally then travelled 30 km to Trivandrum, where a public meeting interspersed with a cultural programme was organised.
		Public meeting was held which was attended by the local leaders and even Ayyankali's grandson.
	www.dalits.org /wsf_dsrrallyupdate.htm (2636 words)

	Khaleej Times - Online
		The Ayyankali Pada, which became prominent after its members held the Palghat district collector hostage in 1996, was also found to be involved in the attack on a World Bank project office at Kothamangalam in 2000.
		The Ayyankali Pada was also responsible for the assault on one of the main accused in the sensational Suryanelli sex scandal, Jacob Stephen.
		The Ayyankali Pada and Poraattam are said to owe allegiance to the Maoist Communist Centre.
	www.khaleejtimes.co.ae /ktarchive/020502/subcont.htm (10870 words)

	Tributes paid to Ayyankali (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Family members and various social and cultural organisations paid tributes to the social reformer Ayyankali on his 139th birth anniversary here today.
		Kodikunnil Suresh, MP, after garlanding the statue of Ayyankali at Vellayambalam, said that the Department of Post would issue a special stamp next year to mark the `jayanthi' celebrations.
		Though the LDF Government had okayed a project to set up an Ayyankali Study and Research Centre, the project has made little progress.
	www.ambedkar.org /News/TributpaidAyyank.htm (251 words)

	Sivaraja Yogi Thycaud Ayya Swamikal
		Ayya Swamikal was the Guru of Sreenarayana Guru, Chattampi Swamikal, Ayyankali, Swayamprakasa Yogini, Swathy Thirunal,Raja Revi Varmma, A.R. Raja Raja Varmma, Petta Fernandus, Thakkala Peer Muhammad etc.For his disciples he was “Sivaraja Yogi Ayya Swami Thiruvadikal”, for people of Ananthapuri he was “Thycaud Ayya” for co-workers he was “Suprand Ayya”.
		Even though a yogi he was a family man Even before Gandhiji he took measures for eradication of untouchability (“ayitham”).
		He introduced “Panthibhojan” by placing Ayyankali by the side of Brahmins and himself for feasts in connection with his birthday and Thaippuyam.
	www.geocities.com /guruforum/Thycaud-Ayya-Swamikal.htm (618 words)

	The Telegraph - Calcutta : Nation
		The national and international leaders of the communist movement are conspicuous by their absence from hoardings put up for the conference.
		The hoardings are, instead, replete with the leaders of social renaissance in Kerala such as Sree Narayana Guru, Ayyankali and Chattambi Swamikal.
		Famous Malayalam litterateur and Gyanpeeth award winner M.T. Vasudevan Nair has been roped in as patron of the conference.
	www.telegraphindia.com /1030215/asp/nation/story_1672708.asp (468 words)

	Printer Friendly Version (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The person who challenged this was a Tamil admirer of Harischandra, Sinnatambou, who built a temple at Terre Rouge.
		The great Dalit leader, Ayyankali of Travancore, whom Bapu called on in 1937, would, as a boy, regularly enact Harischandra’s story with his friends for inspiration.
		Meanwhile, Harischandra is enshrined in another significant life: the first Indian film ever made was the silent Satyavadi Harischandra by Dadasaheb Phalke, premiered at the Olympia theatre, Mumbai, in April 1913.
	www.indianexpress.com /print.php?content_id=36778 (445 words)

	Re: Caste and Vedas
		The Protestant missionaries of the Church Missionary Society (CMS) and the London Mission Society (LMS) which were active in Kerala during a later period initiated social movements which led to a renaissance in thinking.
		This was followed by the emergence of social reformers such as Sri Narayana Guru and Ayyankali, and historic figures belonging to the the Left movement.
		Arundhati Roy was hailed by the Akademi as a person who, unlike others sharing her origins, had been totally purged of Hindu values.
	www.sikhnet.com /Sikhnet/discussion.nsf/3d8d6eacce83bad8872564280070c2b3/dd9d521847a99fd78725696200510c29!OpenDocument (2279 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The struggles of the Pulayas for access to roads and schools led to Pulaya riots at the turn of the century in Cape Comorin, Neyyattinkara and Vaikom and these riots were suppressed by the government.
		The struggle for education led by Pulaya leaders, Ayyankali and Vallikara Choti led the Tiruvitamkur Government to grant Pulayas the right of education in government schools in Balaramapuram and Pullattu in 1914.
		So the reformers who represented the backward communities such as Sree Narayana Guru, Kumaran Asan, Ayyankali, Vakkom Abdul Khadar Moulavi and many of their followers opposed the practice of limiting knowledge only to the upper strata of the society, the privileged few of the middle class who were the main beneficiaries of modern education.
	www.keralahistory.ac.in /casteandsocial.htm (13846 words)

	Sivraja Yogi Thycaud Ayya Swamikal-The Great Guru from Kerala
		Ayya Swamikal was the Guru of Sreenarayana Guru, Chattampi Swamikal, Ayyankali, Swayamprakasa Yogini, Swathy Thirunal,Raja Revi Varmma, A.R. Raja Raja Varmma, Petta Fernandus, Thakkala Peer Muhammad etc.For his disciples he was Sivaraja Yogi Ayya Swami Thiruvadikal, for people of Ananthapuri he was Thycaud Ayya for co-workers he was Suprand Ayya.
		Even though a yogi he was a family man Even before Gandhiji he took measures for eradication of untouchability (ayitham).
		He introduced Panthibhojan by placing Ayyankali by the side of Brahmins and himself for feasts in connection with his birthday and Thaippuyam.
	santha3.tripod.com (1015 words)

	News Kerala India,Kerala News,News India,World,Malayalam News,Kerala Shopping,Kerala Movies,Kerala Travel,Kerala ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Floral tribute performed at Ayyankali Square in Vellayambalam in Thiruvananthapuram.
		The function was inaugurated by the Scheduled caste welfare Minister A. Anil Kumar.
		Kodikunnil Suresh and Ayyankali's grandson Sasidharan attended the function.
	www.keralanext.com /news/index.asp?id=371453 (76 words)

	Dalit literature will replace Sanskrit
		On the other hand, we have the writings of Sumangala and Amrapali in Buddhist tradition," he said.
		That tradition of socio-spiritual liberation was carried forward by people such as Ayyankali, Sree Narayana Guru and Mahatma Phule.
		Today the Dalits in the country had reached a stage where they were no longer willing to fight for their cause with weapons.
	www.aiccindia.org /news/dalit_literature_will_replace_sanskrit.htm (462 words)

	The Hindu Business Line : Coca-Cola godown vandalised
		Policemen stand guard at the godown of Famous Marketing, which was attacked by suspected activists of the Ayyankali Pada in Kochi on Friday morning.
		SUSPECTED activists of the Ayyankali Pada, a banned Naxal outfit in the State, ransacked a Coca-Cola godown in the heart of the city and destroyed the soft drinks by dousing them with kerosene and diesel before setting them on fire.
		The incident took place on Friday at around 10.30 am in the godown of Famous Marketing Company located near Kadavanthra when 15 men launched the attack while cola bottles were being loaded into a delivery vehicle.
	www.thehindubusinessline.com /2003/08/30/stories/2003083000451700.htm (434 words)

	In solidarity
		The Protestant missionaries of the Church Missionary Society (CMS) and the London Mission Society (LMS) which were active in Kerala during a later period initiated social movements which led to a renaissance in thinking.
		This was followed by the emergence of social reformers such as Sri Narayana Guru and Ayyankali, and historic figures belonging to the the Left movement.
		Arundhati Roy was hailed by the Akademi as a person who, unlike others sharing her origins, had been totally purged of Hindu values.
	www.flonnet.com /fl1603/16030810.htm (1198 words)

	KERALA: India's radical success - Simply... KERALA old and new
		At the very bottom of the pile were the adivasi or indigenous people who have been in Kerala for 4,000 years.
		In 1893 a man called Ayyankali committed an outrageous act: although he was an 'Untouchable' he dared to travel in a bullock cart along a public road.
		There followed other challenges to the caste system, such as low-caste groups uniting to form Caste Improvement Associations.
	www.newint.org /issue241/simply.htm (1252 words)

	Top Page 7 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The temple was built in memory of Thycaud Ayya Swamikal, the first and the greatest social reformer of Kerala.
		He was the Guru of Sree Narayana Guru, Chattambi Swamigal and Ayyankali.
		The deity was installed in 1943 at the Samadhi place of the Ayya Swami.
	www.devaswam.com /t1.htm (317 words)

	Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		In this, they were willing to forgo the funds allocated for the welfare of the STs which could be diverted for compensation to the settlers — indeed a magnanimous and civilised gesture of a peace-loving people.
		Matters came to a head with the sensational hostage taking by an until then unheard of group calling itself ‘Ayyankali Pada’.
		W R Reddy, the then Palakkad collector, was taken hostage by four youths on October 4, 1996 demanding the withdrawal of the amendment.
	www.epw.org.in /showArticles.php?root=1999&leaf=05&filename=2619&filetype=html (7001 words)

	Hindutwa's Demographic Worries By Dr T T Sreekumar
		Abstention movement was the culmination of a series of caste struggles that challenged the upper caste domination in Travancore society in the beginning decades of the 20th century.
		Or perhaps from the time of the great Dalit leader Ayyankali’s famous “Villuvandi Yaathra” (travel in a bullock cart through public roads) in 1893 through forbidden roads defying the ban on Dalits’; access to public roads.
		NSS supported the Vaikkom Sathyagraha because the “Skhethra Thyaga Samaram” (Temple Avoidance Movement) organized by Ezhavas in Travancore during c.1820 was a huge success.
	www.countercurrents.org /communalism-sreekumar091004.htm (3005 words)

	BABU BHASKAR (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The highly compartmentalised society had thrown up many men of action, who, even as they worked amidst their own people, were striving to break down barriers and integrate all sections.
		Some of them are today household names by virtue of the far-reaching impact of the work, Sri Narayana Guru and Ayyankali being the best examples.
		The book under review seeks to rekindle the memory of one such person, E. John (1863-1942).
	uk.msnusers.com /BABUBHASKAR/malayalam20042.msnw (1753 words)

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