Sree Narayana Guru

Recently, the Karnataka government is caught in a controversy over the exclusion of text on reformer Narayana Guru in the new social science textbook of class 10.

About Narayan Guru

  • Born in 1856 in Chempazhanthy, a village near Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, he belonged to the Ezhava caste.
  • Sree Narayana Guru was a catalyst and leader who reformed the oppressive caste system that prevailed in society at the time.
  • Sree Narayana Guru became one of the greatest proponents and re-evaluators of Advaita Vedanta, the principle of non-duality put forward by Adi Shankara.
  • In 1913, he founded the Advaita Ashram at Aluva. This was an important ....
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