Sahodaran Ayyappan
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| Born | 21 August 1889 Cherai,Kerala |
| Died | 6 March 1968 (aged 78) |
| Nationality | India |
| Other names | Ayyappan master |
Sahodaran Ayyappan (21 August 1889 – 6 March 1968) was a social reformer, thinker, rationalist, journalist, and politician of Kerala, India. He was one of the outspoken followers of Sree Narayana Guru. He was born at cherai in vyppin island. In 1917 at cherai, he organized a misra bojanam. He formed an organization called sahodara sangam. He was also known as pulaya ayyappan. He started the journel " sahodaram".He became the founder editor of the magazine "Yukthivadhi".
Sahodaran Ayyappan was born into a traditional Ezhava family of Cherai in Vypin Island of Ernakulam district as the son of Kumabalathuparambil Kochavu Vaidyar and Unnuli on 21 August 1889. He lost his father at an early age and was brought up under the guidance of his elder brother Achuthan Vaidyar. After having his school education primarily in Cherai and North Paravoor, Ayyappan did his pre-university course at the Malabar Christian College, Kozhikode. He had to discontinue his further education for the time being while at Madras due to ill health.
While at Kozhikode he began speaking in public platforms stressing the need for social reforms. It was at this time that he had the opportunity to interact closely with Sree Narayana Guru at whose encouragement he decided to continue his studies and took B.A. from Maharaja's College, Ernakulam, in 1916. He also met the poet Kumaran Asan during this time. By this time the social revolutionary in Ayyappan had come of age and was ready to fight against the social evil of caste system.
At Cherai, in 1917, Ayyappan organised a misra bhojanan (a grand feast of all castes sitting together under one roof). The feast was organised under the aegis of the Sahodara Sangham (The Brotherood Association), an organisation that Ayyappan himself had organised for the purpose of eradicating the evil of casteism. The feast was attended by about 200 people including the so-called untouchable Pulayas. This was opposed forcibly by conservative sections of society, including Ezhava lords. For a while thereafter, his detractors sarcastically called him Pulayan Ayyappan, a name which he took as an honour. From then on, Ayyappan came to be known as Sahodaran Ayyappan.
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