Question

What was the social work undertaken by Kudmul Ranga Rao for the upliftment of the Harijans?

Answer 1

Explanation:

Kudmul Ranga Rao (29 June 1859 – 30 January 1928) was a social reformer ... He is my teacher when it comes to the upliftment of the untouchables".

Answer 2

ANSWER:

Kudmul Ranga Rao was a social reformer from Karnataka who was one of the pioneers of oppressed class movements within Southern India for providing better housing,employment, education, and empowering the oppressed classes socially by shielding them against mistreatment by upper class people in the latter half of the 19th century.

EXPLANATION:  

    Ranga Rao did not like the way untouchables (Harijans) were treated during his time and he desired to bring belief, intellectual consciousness, and social awareness amongst each other, along with dignity, good righteousness, self-respect, intellectual refinement amongst the untouchables.

So as to realise his dreams, he had planned several changes. Some of the key changes were: he had opened residential schools for the untouchables to make them educated, in order to abolish slavery and improve the living conditions of the untouchables he developed small-scale industries to help the untouchables become self-employed, and he purchased lands from rich land owners and gave these lands to the Harijans for building house and irrigation system.