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THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The movement began by Raja Ram Mohan Roy in India was an attempt at modernisation based on humanitarianism and it was a synthesis of Indian spirituality, rationalism and religion, according to T.P. Sankarankutty Nair, former professor of history at University College, Thiruvananthapuram.

He was delivering the Bodheswaran Foundation lecture on ‘Kerala Renaissance’ hereon Monday.

The European renaissance was in arts, science and literature and it began in the post-Chaucerian period. It was a revival of Greek and Roman Classics. The Kerala model of modernisation was based more on humanism, rationalism and democracy than on the European model of renaissance or reformation, he said.

Velayudha Panikker, an Ezhava social reformer, was the first to consecrate the Shiva temple at Mangalath near Edakkad in 1854. Studies on this pioneer had been sidelined by historians, he said.

Foundation secretary B. Hridayakumari presided over the function.

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