Friday 30 March 2018

MALAYALI MEMORIAL.

The Malayali Memorial was a petition submitted too the Maharaja of Travancore on The New Years Day in 1891.It was signed by 10028 persons belonging to all classes and creeds. It drew the attention of the Maharaja to the exclusion of the educated natives from the higher grades of public service. It pleaded for the natives a fair quota of government appointments.It was drafted on the basis of a popular cry Travancore for Travancoreans’.It was really a fair plea for privileges and positions.Its formulators were G.P. Pillai and K.P. Sankara Menon.The Government have taken no immediate action.Its attitude was unhelpful and reactionary.Outsiders continued to be appointed.Nevertheless the agitation served its purpose namely to arouse political consciousness of the people.It symbolised the emergence of the new educated middle class as a force to be reckoned with. 

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