100 years on, remembering Vaikom Satyagraha as an anti-caste civil rights movement

The Satyagraha was a fight for access to the roads surrounding the Vaikom Mahadeva temple for people of all castes, who were otherwise forced to use roundabout paths to reach their destinations.

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