Thachudaya Kaimal
The Thachudaya Kaimals were a lineage of ruling chiefs in
History
Historians are of the opinion that the first Kaimal of the temple was the Kulasekhara Perumal of the second Chera Empire a venerated saint in Vaishanavism [2][3] Despite this, the Thachudaya Kaimal combined their instinctive conservatism with the most liberal views.
Mahatma Gandhi, recognising that by ancient law and custom the Thachudaya Kaimal had ultimate spiritual authority over the Hindus, visited Irinjalakkuda during the 1930s to persuade the Kaimal to order by decree the Temple Entry Proclamation and to persuade the Maharaja to issue an ordinance to abolish untouchability.[4] Following Gandhi's visit and Temple Entry in Travancore, an attempt to depose the Thachudaya Kaimal as a ruling chief and outcaste the Maharaja of Travancore from Hinduism was instigated by the Raja of Cochin but the Kaimal was reinstated by the British Raj authorities with an order from the Viceroy and Governor-General of India.[5][page needed]
End of hereditary rights
Nominated by the
The penultimate Thachudaya Kaimal was named Bhaskara at birth on 22 June 1895 in the Mundanad branch of the
References
- JSTOR 752876.
- ^ Memoir of the Survey of Travancore and Cochin states, Lt. Ward and Lt. Conner 1893
- ^ "Biography of Eminent Nairs".
- ^ The Complete Works of Mahatma Gandhi, vol. 13.
- ISBN 978-8124010945under section titled 'The Thachudaya Kaimal Affair
- JSTOR 44147293.
- ^ K. P. Padmanabha Menon, History of Kerala Vol ii
- ^ "The Constitution (Amendment)". Archived from the original on 6 December 2011.
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- ^ Chattampi Swamikalude Gruhasta Shishyanma, Ananthakumara Press, Sivakasi