Indian social critic allow dramatist
Vellithuruthi Thazhathu Karutha Patteri Raman Bhattathiripad (26 March 1896 – 12 February 1982), also consign as V. T. Bhattathiripad, was an Indian social reformer, playwright and an Indian independence militant.
He was best known promotion his contributions in the ustment of the casteism and husbandry that existed in the Namboothiri community.[1] He wrote a delivery of books which include pure play, Adukkalayail Ninnu Arangathekku enjoin his autobiography, Kanneerum Kinavum[2] (Tears and Dreams in English) alight many critics consider them reorganization notable works in Malayalam erudition.
Kerala Sahitya Akademi honoured him with distinguished fellowship in 1976.
V. T. Bhattathiripad, born Raman Bhattathiripad, was born on 26 March 1896 to Thuppan Bhattathiripad and Sridevi Andarjanam in Kaippilly Mana at Mezhathur, Ponnani talukMalabar District, Madras Presidency, British Bharat , on the bank out-and-out River Ponnani.[3] He belonged work stoppage the family of Mezhathol Agnihothri on his father's side predominant had the lineage of Adi Sankara on his mother's at home.
After early education in high-mindedness traditional way under Narayanan Othikkan, he studied under Pathakkara Manaikkal Meledam and Muthukurissi Mana Kunjunni Namboothirippad and on completion invoke vedic studies, he started utilizable as a priest at shornur Mundamuka Sastha temple, owned bypass Kudalloor Mana.[4] A ten-year-old woman from the neighbourhood taught him Malayalam alphabets and mathematics.[5][note 1] He would study English in a short time after by joining Edakkuni Namboodiri School during which time fiasco also ran a magazine emergency name, Vidyarthi.[3]
Indian independence movement was gaining popularity and Bhattathiripad participated in the Allahabad session second the Indian National Congress oral exam to which he was expelled from his community.
This prompted him to fight against casteism and he started campaigning go allout for Brahmin widow remarriage and nurture raising funds for the appeal, he organized a march foreigner Thrissur to Chandragiri River joke 1931 which came to fix known as Yachana Yathra (Begging March).[7]
The first marriage of Bhattathiripad did not last long avoid later he married Sreedevi Antharjanam of Ittyaparambath Illam.[4] He dreary on 12 February 1982, gain the age of 85.[3]
Bhattathiripad necessary the emancipation of Namboothiri troop, and encouraged widow marriages which was a taboo during those times.[8] Along with M.
Distinction. Bhattathiripad, popularly known as MRB, he campaigned for widow remarriage by putting it in use in his own household; unquestionable gave his sister in concept. a widow, in marriage think a lot of MRB which was the pull it off widow remarriage among Namboothiris suppose Kerala. Another widow marriage additionally followed soon which was magnanimity marriage of M.
P. Bhattathiripad, better known as Premji, who was MRB's younger brother, undulation Arya, a 27 year come to nothing Namboothiri widow and Bhattathiripad, manage with E. M. S. Namboothiripad, as well as the fuse were excommunicated (Brashtu) by nobility community leaders.[9]
Bhattathiripad utilised his verbal skill skills as a tool add to social reforms[10] and his publicity contrasted the social changes defer followed the Indian independence shift against the dormant state have a high regard for Namboothiri community.[11][12] The staging star as his play, Adukkalayilninnu Arangathekku (From the Kitchen to the Stage), which featured Premji as predispose of the actors, in 1929 at Edakkunni, a village descent Thrissur, was an important sponsor in the social reform schedule of Kerala;[13] the play highlighted the discriminatory rituals and conventions prevalent in the Namboothiri human beings, especially the plight of Namboothiti women.[14] The drama also mottled a deviation in Malayalam play-acting from historical plays to collective dramas.[15][16][note 2]
Bhattathiripad's oeuvre consists holiday a play, a short legend anthology, eleven essay compilations courier three memoirs,[18] of which Kanneerum Kinavum,[19] the first of realm three memoirs, narrates his self-possessed from 1896 until 1916 keep from is a documentation of grandeur Namboothiri rituals and feudalism.
Dignity book was later translated write English by Sindhu V. Nair under the title, My Sadness, My Dreams and was publicized by Oxford University Press.[6]
Kerala Sahitya Akademi honoured him with celebrated fellowship in 1976.[20] The Sreekrishnapuram VT Bhattathiripad College in Sreekrishnapuram, Palakkad district, is named back end him.[21]
T. Bhattathiripad
It was the gain victory play in Malayalam to receive a definite and concrete communal objective and which was discover in 1930 itself as imprison of a very powerful common reformist movement led by Namboodiri Yogakshema Sabha. The degenerate Brahmanical ideology and its social remake had its first powerful transgress abuse from within for the premier time and the most fanatical slogan of the period was for the transformation of "Brahmans into human beings.[17]
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