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Critically comment: “Sri Narayana Guru’s was a major intervention in the social reform movement from a subaltern perspective.”

  • UPSC 2017
  • Rise of Gandhi and the Gandhian Era

Unlike Brahmo or Prarthana Samaj reformers who critiqued caste from within upper-caste elite positions, Narayana Guru (1856-1928) spoke as an Ezhava, a caste treated as "avarna" and denied temple entry in princely Travancore — making his intervention genuinely subaltern in origin.

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