Veeresalingam [1848-1919]
Kandukari Veeresalingam was a great social reformer lived in the South India. Born in a poor family in 1848. He started his career as a school teacher. He wrote a large number of pamphlets on social reform in the Telugu language.Earlier he was a follower of Prarthana Samaj. He worked for the re-marriage of widows, female education, and the general uplift of women. He started separate journals for women called Satihitabhodini and Hasyavardhini. In 1874, he started a journal Vivekavardhini.
He opened his first girls’ school in 1874. Day schools for adult women, night schools for workers, and schools for Harijans are some of his notable contributions. He started a widow’s home in Chennai. He worked against caste system, child marriage, polygamy, and institutionalization of prostitution. In 1878 he founded the Rajamundri Social Reform Association with the objective of promoting widow re-marriage. The Rajamundri Social Reform Association launched an anti-nautch movement [against the hiring of dancing girls for celebrations]. In 1906 he founded the Hitakarini Samaj to serve the people.
He was called as the Vidyasagar of the south. He wrote the first novel in Telugu, Rajasekhara Charitram. He was known as the father of renaissance movement in Andhra.
Kandukari Veeresalingam was a great social reformer lived in the South India. Born in a poor family in 1848. He started his career as a school teacher. He wrote a large number of pamphlets on social reform in the Telugu language.Earlier he was a follower of Prarthana Samaj. He worked for the re-marriage of widows, female education, and the general uplift of women. He started separate journals for women called Satihitabhodini and Hasyavardhini. In 1874, he started a journal Vivekavardhini.
He opened his first girls’ school in 1874. Day schools for adult women, night schools for workers, and schools for Harijans are some of his notable contributions. He started a widow’s home in Chennai. He worked against caste system, child marriage, polygamy, and institutionalization of prostitution. In 1878 he founded the Rajamundri Social Reform Association with the objective of promoting widow re-marriage. The Rajamundri Social Reform Association launched an anti-nautch movement [against the hiring of dancing girls for celebrations]. In 1906 he founded the Hitakarini Samaj to serve the people.
He was called as the Vidyasagar of the south. He wrote the first novel in Telugu, Rajasekhara Charitram. He was known as the father of renaissance movement in Andhra.
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