Prahladan Gopalan
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1922
Prahladan Gopalan | |
|---|---|
| Member of the Kerala Legislative Assembly | |
| In office 1960–1965 | |
| Preceded by | K. P. R. Gopalan |
| Succeeded by | K. P. R. Gopalan |
| Constituency | Madayi Assembly constituency |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Puthiyapurayil Gopalan 1922 |
| Died | 20 May 1969 (aged 46–47) Malappuram, Kerala, India |
| Children | 5 |
Puthiyapurayil Gopalan popularly known as Prahladan Gopalan was an Indian National Congress politician from Kerala, India. He represented Madayi Assembly constituency in the second Kerala Legislative Assembly.
Puthiyapurayil Gopalan was born on 1922, as one of the five children of R. Kunhiraman Master and P. Madhavi Amma, a Malabar District School Teacher.[1] His father was a man who was widely criticized for the Dalit upliftment put forward by Mahatma Gandhi and had to accept humiliation even from his own community.[1]
Gopalan became an untrained teacher in 1938 at the age of 16. At that time he participated in a teachers' strike against a meeting called Gurujan Sabha, which is compulsory every Saturday, conducted in RKUP school where his father was the manager.[1] His father was in favor of the meeting. People started calling Gopalan along with the name of Prahlada in Hindu mythology after he succeeded in his struggle against his own father over the issue.[1]
He died on May 20, 1969, at the age of 47 in a road accident in Malappuram.