Solutions
• Kesavananda Bharati Swamiji, was the sole unwitting petitioner in the historic Fundamental Rights case, which prevented the nation from slipping into a totalitarian regime.
• Shri Kesavananda Bharati was the chief pontiffof Edneer Mutt in Kasaragod district, Kerala, India.
• He was a follower of Smartha Bhagawatha traditionand the Advaita Vedanta school of Hindu philosophy.
• He took Sanyasa at the age of 19 and headed the Edneer Mutt as the Peetadhipathi until his death.
• Kesavananda Bharati was aCarnatic and Hindusthani vocalist, and master of Yakshagana, an Indian art and theater form.
• He was a patron of education, Kannada culture and arts, including Yakshagana, music and dramas.
• In 1970, He had filed a case challenging theKerala Government’s attempts to acquire the Mutt’s property, through the Kerala Land Reforms Act of 1963 as amended in 1969.