Q. Who gave the leadership for Ezhava Memorial in 1896 ?
Solution:
Padmanabhan Palpu LMS, DPH (Cantab) FRIPH (London) was a bacteriologist and social revolutionary. Ritty Lukose describes him as the “political father” of the Ezhavas, who are numerically the largest caste in the region now encompassed by the state of Kerala. In 1903, he founded the Sree Narayana Dharma Paripalana (Society for the Propagation of the Religion of Sree Narayana, or SNDP) that had as its first president Narayana Guru, the guru who sought an end to the caste system and preached his concept of “one caste, one religion, one god.”
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