Mannathu Padmanabha Pillai
Mannathu Padmanabhan was a social reformer and a freedom fighter from the State of Kerala, India. He is recognised as the founder of the Nair Service Society, which claims to represent the Nair community that constitutes almost 14.5 of the population of the state. Padmanabhan is considered as a visionary reformer who organised the Nair community under the NSS.
Mannathu Padmanathan was born in Perunna village in Changanacherry, Travancore, British India onJanuary 1878 to Eswaran Namboothiri of Nilavana Illam and Mannathu Parvathy Amma. He began his career as a teacher in 1893 in a Government primary school. After a few years, from 1905 he changed his profession and started practising law, in the Magistrates Courts.
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