Narayana Guru
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Sree Narayana Guru was a philosopher, spiritual leader and social reformer in India. He led a reform movement against the injustice in the caste-ridden society of Kerala in order to promote spiritual
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Narayana Guru at Meditation. He meditated for 8 years at Pillathadam cave at Maruthwamala mountain and attained enlightenment. The area was secluded with heavy forest and inhabited with wild life.
Guru 1967 stamp of India
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Ezhava
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The Ezhavas, also known as Thiyya or Tiyyar in the Malabar region, and Chegavar/Chovar in the south, are a community with origins in the region of India presently known as Kerala, where in the 2010s t
Narayana Guru
…he exemplified how faith could be used to bring about social change. Narayanan, né Nanu, was born on 20 August 1856 to Madan Asan and Kuttiyamma in an Ezhava family of ayurvedic physicians, in the village of Chempazhanthy near Thiruvananthapuram, in the erstwhile state of Travancore. Unlike other Ezhavas who…
A Thiyan girl, 1898
A Thiyya couple, 18th century
An Ezhava couple, 19th century
The traditional attire of Thiyyar (Tiyya) Bridegroom and companions, in 1912