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Mithavaadi Krishnan | |
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മിതവാദി കൃഷ്ണൻ | |
Born | C Krishnan June 11, 1867 Kerala, India |
Died | November 29, 1938 | (aged 71)
Alma mater | Presidency college chennai |
Occupation(s) | Advocate, social reformer, socialist, periodical publisher |
Changaramkumarath Krishnan Vakkeel was a community leader, banker, social reformer, and journalist from Kerala, India.[1] He was a champion of implementing the revolutionary socialist reforms proposed by Sree Narayana Guru for the upliftment of the downtrodden people of Kerala. He was called Mithavathi―a minimalist―after the newspaper he published from 1913 to 1938 to spread the message of the reformist movement. He was well-educated and hailed from an influential family. Although he could have entered the government service and risen to higher positions with his education and wealth, he renounced all these for the liberation of the backward classes from the clutch of pathological social system. [2]
When the kings and the ruling class passed oppressive laws against the weak sections of the people, Mithavadi protested through its editorials that their judgments were against poor people. It also pointed out that the true owners of the land were the people and not the kings or the people in power. It reminded the King of Travancore of the Russian rulers who were overthrown by the revolutionaries and asked his highness to take this as an indication.[3]