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• Mannathu Padmanabhan was an Indian social reformer and freedom fighter from Kerala.

• Padmanabhan is considered as a visionary reformer who organised the Nair community under the NSS.

• On 31 October 1914, with the help of a few others, he established the Nair Service Society. His main ambition was to uplift the status of the Nair community. From 1915 onwards, he gave up law practice and became full-time secretary of the Nair Service Society.

• He took part in the Vaikom(1924) and Guruvayoor(1931) temple-entry Satyagrahas.

• In 1949, Padmanabhan became a member of the Travancore Legislative Assembly.

• In 1959, he along with Christian Churches led a united opposition against the State Communist Ministry, which became known as the Vimochana Samaram (liberation struggle).

• Mannath Padmanabhan is also known as Bharatha Kesari.