Q. Which was the first Malayalam publication to gave support to the Russian Revolution of 1917?
Solution:
- Mitavati was known as ‘the Bible of Thiyyas and Bible of the Depressed Classes’.
Mithavadi was a Malayalam-language newspaper published from Tellicherry and later from Calicut in Malabar, British India. It was established by T. Sivasankaran in 1907. * Moorkoth Kumaran was the editor. He merged his Kerala Sanchari newspaper with Mithavadi. - In 1913, C. Krishnan purchased the newspaper and published it from his Empire Press, Calicut.
- Mithavadi was particularly popular among the Thiyya community and was instrumental in pioneering tenant agitations in Malabar.
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