![]() “As he stood watching, a huge wave drenched him to the skin and he smilingly observed that the Goddess of the sea gave him a very wet reception. But Gandhi, being Gandhi, was in no mood to resist the ancient custom and left without entering the temple in Kanniyakumari, where the three seas confluence. Emperumal Naidu of Kanniyakumari, were at the forefront of the struggle, which lasted 603 days, from March 30, 1924, to November 23, 1925. Kesava Menon, George Joseph, Periyar E.V. Never mind, right at that very time there was a protest going on at Vaikom, demanding entry for the backward communities and ‘untouchables’ to the temple streets, and Gandhi himself was guiding the movement. ![]() ![]() ![]() In his autobiography, My Experiments with Truth, Gandhi says, “The order had no effect on me, and I took leave of the Sheth.” Gandhi, however, would have felt its effect years later when he was denied entry to the Bhagavathi Amman temple in Kanniyakumari in March 1925. When Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi decided to go to England to study law, the Sheth, the headman of his community, told him, “Our religion forbids voyages abroad.” The Sheth declared him an outcast after a determined Gandhi maintained that caste should not interfere in the matter. ![]()
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