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Allowing untouchables to Hindu temples and roads
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Keeping the monopoly of temples to Brahmin class
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Allowing women to enter temple
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Sanskrit lessons to be imparted only to Brahmin family members and others to be devoid of it in order to preserve its purity.
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Detailed explanation-1: -It was a movement to allow lower caste people to enter temples. Its result led to people of lower caste being allowed to enter temples and also use and draw water from temple wells. Equal status for lower caste people was proclaimed through this movement. The aim was to reform Hindu society.
Detailed explanation-2: -The temple entry movement was the Gandhian or nationalist approach to fight caste oppression. In 20th century Kerala, the people of lower caste were not allowed to enter temple premises. Sree Narayana Guru led a social reform movement that called for allowing people of lower caste entry into state-operated temples.
Detailed explanation-3: -Answer: In 1927, Ambedkar started a temple entry movement, in which his Mahar caste followers participated.
Detailed explanation-4: -Ambedkar launched the Kalaram Temple entry movement in 1930 because the movement was the struggle for human rights and social justice. Kalaram Temple entry movement formed a pivotal role in the Dalit movement in India. Ambedkar led a protest outside the temple on 2nd March 1930 in order to allow Dalits into the temple.
Detailed explanation-5: -Vaikom Satyagraha was a movement in Travancore (modern-day Kerala) for temple entry of the depressed classes. It took place near the Shiva Temple at Vaikom, Kottayam district, Kerala during 1924-25.