Kerala Renaissance Part- 4

• Who formed the organisation named Uralungal Koolivelakkarude Paraspara Sahaya Sangham as part of his social revolutionary mission to fight the caste barriers?

Ans: Vagbhatananda

• Who established the Muslim Printing House?

Ans: Vakkom Moulavi

• Which newspaper provided propaganda for the Malayali Memorial?

Ans: Malayali

• Who was the founder of Cheramar Mahasabha?

Ans: Pampadi John Joseph

• Which organisation's predecessor was Vavoottu Yogam?

Ans: SNDP Yogam

• Whom Mannathu Padmanab-han once dubbed as his 'Political Nephew'?

Ans: R. Sankar

• Vaikkom Satyagraha lasted for _____ months?

Ans: 20

• Which eminent figure of freedom movement of India accompanied Rabindranath Tagore when he visited Sree Narayana Guru?

Ans: C.F. Andrews

• Which ruler of Travancore ended the Devadasi System?

Ans: Sethulalcshmi Bhai

• Who was the President of the Guruvayur Satyagraha Committee?

Ans: Mannathu Padmanabhan

• Which was the mouthpiece of the Abstention Movement?

Ans: Kerala Kesari

• Who was the Secretary of the Committee for Abstention Movement in Travancore?

Ans: C. Kesavan

• Who launched the publication 'Prabuddha Keralam'?

Ans: Swami Agamananda

• Who was the first signatory of the Malayali Memorial?

Ans: K.P. Sankara Menon

• Which social reformer inspired the formation of 'Karshaka Sangham' in Malabar?

Ans: Vagbhatananda

• Who translated the 'Atmopadesha Shatakam' of Sree Narayana Guru into English with the title 'Centiloquy of the Self'?

Ans: Nataraja Guru

• In order to provide opportunity of education for poor children, what was organised by V.T. Bhattathirippad?

Ans: Begging March (Yachana Yatra)

• In which year was the Begging March held?

Ans: 1931

• Who advised the organisers of Vaikkom Satyagraha to conduct 'Savarna Jatha'?

Ans: Gandhiji

• Who became the first President of the Travancore Devaswom Board in 1949?

Ans: Mannath Padmanabhan

• Which organisation inspired Ayyankali to establish Sadhujana Paripalana Sangham?

Ans: SNDP Yogam

• In which year the Sadhujana Paripalana Sangham became Pulaya Mahasabha?

Ans: 1938

• Who conferred the title 'Vidwan' upon Pandit Karuppan in 1913?

Ans: Kerala Varma Valiakoyithampuran

• Who was the third signatory of the Malayali Memorial of 1891?

Ans: Dr. Palpu

• Who translated the dialogue between Tagore & Sree Narayana Guru into Malayalam during Tagore's visit to Sivagiri?

Ans: Kumaranasan

• At which place Gandhiji made his first public speech in Kerala?

Ans: Kozhikode (1920 August 18)

• Who translated the Kozhikode speech of Gandhiji into Malayalam?

Ans: K. Madhavan Nair

• Aggrieved by the death of Chattampi Swamikal, who wrote a condolence poem named 'Samadhi Saptalcam`?

Ans: Pandit Karuppan

• Which is regarded as the first work of Sree Narayana Guru?

Ans: Gajendramoksham Vanchippatt

• The foundation stone of which temple was laid by Annie Beasant & was consecrated by Sree Narayana Guru?

Ans: Sreekanteswara Temple (Kozhikode)

• From whom Mannathu Padmanabhan received the Bharat Kesari honour?

Ans: Dr. Rajendra Prasad

• The Ezhava Memorial of 1900 was submitted before 

Ans: Viceroy Curzon

• Who authored 'Athmanuthaapam'?

Ans: Kuriakose Elias Chavara

• Who founded the Thathva Prakashika Ashram at Kozhikode?

Ans: Vagbhatananda

• At which place Ayyankali started a school for the depressed classes in 1904?

Ans: Venganoor

• Which work of Chattampi Swamikal quashes the legend that Kerala was donated to Brahmins by Parasurama?

Ans: Pracheena Malayalam

• Along with whom Thycaud Ayya started Saiva Prakasa Sabha in 1884?

Ans: Prof. Sundaram Pillai

• Who is the author of 'Paropakari'?

Ans: Makthi Thangal

• Who was the first President of the Kerala Yukthivadi Sangham?

Ans: M.C. Joseph

• Who took initiative to file a counter memorial in favour of Brahmins, against the Malayali Memorial?

Ans: Chenkotta Ramayyar

• In which year Samastha Kerala Sahodara Sammelanam was held at Aluva?

Ans: 1921

• Who is called as the Father of Literacy in Kerala'?

Ans: Kuriakose Elias Chavara

• Which Satyagraha of Kerala was conducted after India's independence?

Ans: Paliam Satyagraha

• Kerala Yukthivadi Sangham was established at Thrissur in?

Ans: 1964

• Who was the official Editor of Vivekodayam, when it was started in 1904?

Ans: M. Govindan

• For the installation of idol in which temple, Sree Narayana Guru reached there with Chattampi Swamikal?

Ans: Poothotta Sree Vallabheshwara Temple

• In which year Rabindranath Tagore visited Sree Narayana Guru at Sivagiri?

Ans: 1922

• In which year Sree Narayana Guru gave the message of 'One caste, One religion, One god for men' at a conference held at Aluva?

Ans: 1924

• Who established Brahma Pratyaksha Sadhu Jana Paripalana Sangham in 1912, aimed at the welfare of Paraya community of Travancore?

Ans: Kavarikkulam Kandan Kumaran

• Which is the temple where Sree Narayana Guru met Chattampi Swamikal for the first time?

Ans: Aniyoor

• In which year Sree Narayana Guru & Kumaranasan met for the first time?

Ans: 1891

• In which year A. K. Gopalan led 'Starvation March (Pattini Jatha) from Kannur to Madras with 32 followers?

Ans: 1936

• Which social reformer of Kerala wrote the editorial 'Save the Soul of Gandhiji when he started fast unto death to protest against Communal Award in 1932?

Ans: Vagbhatananda

• Who called Kumaranasan as 'Poet of Renaissance'?

Ans: Thayattu Sankaran

• Who wrote 'Swaanthantrya Gaadha'?

Ans: Kumaranasan

• Who wrote introduction to Kumaranasan's work 'Nalini'?

Ans: A.R. Rajaraja Varma

• Kumaranasan's 'Veenapoovul, which marked the beginning of , romanticism in Malayalam was published in 1907 in which publication?

Ans: Mithavadi

• Which work of Kumaranasan is on the background of the Malabar Rebellion of 1921?

Ans: Duravastha

• The elegy 'Prarodhan.amr mourns the death of Kumaranasan's contemporary & friend _____? 

Ans: A.R. Raja Raja Varma