[The famous events of interdining organized by the eminent anti-caste reformer from Kochi, Sahodaran K Ayappan caused paroxysms of rage to lash the caste-elite dominated town of Thrissur from 1917. Kochattil Kalyanikkutty Amma, who participated in one such event in the mid-1920s, gives a first-person account of it, and the consequences she had to face afterwards, in her autobiography Pathikayum Vazhiyorathe Manideepangalum. Below is a translation.]
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