Q. The first to establish a printing press in Kerala without foreign support:
Solution:
- Kuriakose Elias Chavara is called the father of literacy in Kerala.
- He was the first to establish a printing press in Kerala without foreign support. It was started at Mannanam in Kottayam.
- Deepika, the oldest daily in Kerala was printed for the first time in this press (1887).
- Saint Kuriakose Elias Chavara, C.M.I. was an Indian Catholic priest and social reformer. He is the first canonized Catholic male saint of Indian origin and belongs to the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church.
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