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In 1893, a twenty-eight-year-old man from the lowest rung of Kerala's caste hierarchy climbed onto a bullock cart and drove down a public road that was forbidden to him. That single act of defiance launched a forty-year campaign that would dismantle centuries of caste-enforced bondage, win the right to education for half a million people, and reshape the social landscape of an entire state. Drawing on the scholarship of T.H.P. Chentharassey, M. Nisar and Meena Kandasamy, Robin Jeffrey, and other historians, this narrative nonfiction account traces the life of Mahatma Ayyankali from the slave-caste system of nineteenth-century Travancore through his campaigns for road access, education, labour rights, and political representation.

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