Kakkaya who was a close associate of Basava was a Harijan.
Until the late 1980s they were called Harijan, meaning children of God.
Institutions like Harijan Sevak Sangh doing yeoman service
and deserve a helping hand: Vice President.
But I know they can rise only when Shudra, Harijan, Women and Muslims also rise.
Kakkan was sworn in as the Minister for Public Works(excluding Electricity), Harijan Welfare, Scheduled Areas
On May 8, 1933,
Gandhi fasted 21 days for self-purification and started a one-year campaign to pursue the Harijan movement.
He. went even to the extent of
declaring that he was an illegitimate child of the servants of the Harijan devotee, Channayya.
Dalit leaders such as Ambedkar were not happy with this
movement and condemned Gandhiji for using the word Harijan for the Dalits.
Venkaiah Naidu has said that Institutions like Harijan Sevak Sangh doing yeoman service
and deserve a helping hand from philanthropists, corporate and other resource persons.
In 1932, after getting released from Rajahmundry jail, having been inspired by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi's"fast-unto-death" on the issue of untouchability,
Latchanna organised"Harijan Seva Sangam" at Baruva.
They went in a group to King Bijjala and
complained that his treasurer Basava had entered the house of a Harijan in defiance of the Varnashrama dharma.
I went to call a doctor--but he said he would not go to the house of a Harijan, nor was he prepared lo examine the child.
I went to call a doctor- but he said he would not go to the house of a Harijan nor was he prepared lo examine the child.
On July 7, 1946, in'Harijan', she wrote,"If it were my turn,
I would advise every single young woman in my influence to choose a characteristic Harijan youth as husband.".
Gandhi, however, reiterated his faith in an article in his English weekly, Harijan." To me the earthquake was no caprice of God,
nor a result of a meeting of blind forces," he wrote.
He also made a lot of efforts to destroy the tradition of untouchables from Indian society and
due to this he also gave the name of“Harijan” to the untouchables which mean“People of God”.
Following the 1957 elections when the Indian National Congress was re-elected to power in the Madras state,
Kakkan was sworn in as the Minister for Public Works(excluding Electricity), Harijan Welfare, Scheduled Areas
and Scheduled Tribes on 13 April 1957.
If I had the power and could legislate, I would stop all proselytizing … In Hindu households the advent of a missionary has meant the disruption of the family coming in the
wake of change of dress, manners, language, food and drink…”(Harijan: November 5, 1935).