Mathew Manjooran – The political activist who spearheaded the first major farmers’ agitation in the history of modern Kerala

Kerala

or Keralam is an Indian state located on the Malabar coast of south-west India. It was created on 1 November 1956 by the States Reorganisation Act by combining various Malayalam speaking regions....

. The movement that he precipitated soon snowballed into the famous Karshaka Prakshobham of 1932 of the erstwhile princely state of Cochin

Kingdom of Cochin

Kingdom of Cochin was a late medieval Hindu kingdom and later Princely State on the Malabar Coast, South India...

. When the agitation showed signs of getting out of hand, government arrested the prominent leaders of the movement.

Mathew Manjooran's three illustrious sons Cherian Manjooran, Mathai Manjooran

Mathai Manjooran

Mathai Manjooran was an Indian independence activist from Kerala, socialist revolutionary, Member of Parliament, Minister of Labour in the second E.M.S...

, and John Manjooran followed his footsteps into politics.