Renaissance Study Centre in Vakkom Moulavi Foundation Trust - Thiruvananthapuram

The Renaissance Study Centre was launched in October 2014 to commemorate Vakkom Abdul Khader Moulavi, a renaissance son of Kerala whose interventions in the social life made revolutionary changes in the Kerala society.

The Centre aims to

Create awareness among young people, especially school and university students, of the contributions of Vakkom Moulavi and his editor Ramakrishna Pillai to the political awakening and development of Kerala, and an understanding of the period in which they lived and worked.
Provide authentic historic materials to schools, educational and cultural materials for teaching or socio-cultural activities related to the period.
The Centre has set up a permanent exhibit on the ‘Life and Time of Vakkom Moulavi’.

In order to provide a correct historical perspective, the Centre will host activities covering the social, economic, political and technological / scientific characteristics and developments of the momentous hundred years between 1850-1950, both national and international. These include the developments in the national liberation movement of India, in the Western world and the Islamic world, which had a critical influence on the leaders of the various renaissance and reform movements in Kerala.