RELG 356 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Dravidar Kazhagam, Devadasi, Muddupalani
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Following gandhi"s advice, yamini purnatilakam, another woman whose. Essentially, in order to participate in the nation and the public sphere, women had. Gandhi related devadasis to prove or establish their sexual purity according to the standards of gandhian (hindu) morality ancestors were devadasis, began to create rehabilitation centers for devadasis, called. Saranalayams ( centers of refuge ) in the year 1922. They were set up in madras and other towns, and women would be brought into the centers from rural parts of south. They saw to the moral, vocational, and literary instruction of the inmates to wean them away from their traditional lives the vocational part of the instruction consisted of spinning, weaving, basket-making, and gardening. Bangalore nagaratnammal (1878-1952) woman who signed a petition. In an act of defiance, she published a text. Responsible for reprinting radhika santvanama by muddupalani (a previous. In the 1920s, bangalore had this text received and re-inserted the obscene .