"If you don't allow our children to study, weeds will grow in your fields" Who said this?

Q. “If you don’t allow our children to study, weeds will grow in your fields” Who said this?

A

Chattampiswamikal

B

Ayyankali

C

Pandit Karuppan

D

Sahodaran Ayyappan

Solution:

Ayyankali was a social reformer who worked for the advancement of those people in the princely state of Travancore, British India, who were treated as untouchables.
Ayyankali opened a school to teach the children belonging to Dalit families at Venganoor which was set ablaze by upper caste people.
His demands included (a) stoppage of the practice of not giving tea in tea shops to Dalits who were given tea till then in coconut shells; (b) right to education for the Dalit children; (c) resting time for workers during work hours; and (d) replacement of the system of wages in kind by payment of cash.

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