Q. Who established the first English language newspaper in South India, the Madras Standard?
Solution:
G. P. Pillai was the earliest leader of the INC from Kerala, and twice served as its General Secretary. He was well known as editor of the Madras Standard and as an activist for civil rights in Travancore State. A forceful writer and orator, he had wide contacts in Britain as well as India. Mahatma Gandhi acknowledged the help and guidance given to him by Pillai in the South African Indian issue and also in the temperance movement- a social movement against the consumption of alcoholic beverages.
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