why do rrak estate prices of areas dominated by subordinate castes fall
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Social reform movements,
protests, resistance movements and movements for equitable social and democratic
rights enriched the period in an unprecedented manner. Fight for educational rights,
political rights, right to employment, right to use public roads and worship in public
temples were some of the major struggles fruitfully fought and won by the
subordinated people through the enlightenment they acquired by their engagement
with modernity. The new masculinity occasioned by colonial modernity influenced
them. This section of the study would investigate such discourses of protest. All the
important events – social reform, struggles, peasant and labour movements, freedom
movement, changing land relations etc. – are to be found in the autobiographies and
biographies.
The reform movements among the lower castes in Kerala had a history
different from that of the upper castes. It is argued that the primary issue that was
being addressed in the reform movements of lower castes included the movement to
dine together and to abolish untouchability and unseeability‘