Nārāyana Guru (नारायण गुरु,നാരായണ ഗുരു), also known as Sree Nārāyana Guru Swami, was a saint, sage and social reformer of India. He was born into an "Ezhava" family, in an era when the Ezhava caste, because of its precarious position between the upper and lowest strata in the caste hierarchy, faced much social injustice. Wikipedia
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A genius and a saint R. Ramdas Thampuran ( published in The Hindu 31 August 1997 ) Narayana Guru was the initiator of a non-violent social revolution in the late 19th century. www.geocities.com/guruforum/genius-and-saint.htm
Sree Narayana Guru, born three years after Vaikunta Swami's passing, had illustrious contemporaries in Vakkom Abdul Khader Maulvi, Ayyankali, Poykayil Yohannan, Vidyadhiraja Chattampi Swamikal and V. T. Bhattathiripad. www.hindu.com/2004/08/29/stories/2004082904420400.htm
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Birth and Childhood Narayana Guru was born in the year 1854 AD at Chempazhanthy, in the suburb of the city of Trivandrum, the present capital of Kerala State, India. www.sndp.org/Html/BiographyByDrSOmana.html