Indeed, apart from K. R. Gowri Amma (a former communist leader who became minister several times, coming from a lower-caste—Ezhava—background) and K. Ajitha (a former Naxalite leader and now organiser of a feminist NGO), there are not many women in Kerala who make it to such political prominence.
Sivadasan was born in Kadavoor on 11 March 1932, the son of M. Kesavan and Lekshmi, a Hindu Ezhava family.
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He was born in an Ezhava family to Raman and Kunjaliamma on April 30, 1909 in Kuzhikkalidavaka village in Puthoor, Kottarakkara.
Names of many such Ezhava Vaidyans from social renaissance period and on wards are noted by the community and recorded in the books.Itti Achuden was reportedly an Ezhava,who helped Gowda saraswatha Brahmin Vaidyans from south canara to identify local names of herbs seen in the mountain regions of Malabar to prepare a Dutch treatise Hortus Malabaricus on plants of Malabar.Eventually he became a notable person as a Vaidyar.