Joseph Mundassery



Joseph Mundassery was a renowned literary critic and Indian politician from Kerala state.

He was one among the towering literary critics in the Malayalam language and literature.

In Kerala politics, he is famously remembered as the Education Minister who is the mastermind behind the drafting of the controversial Education Bill of the first EMS communist ministry of 1957.

Joseph Mundassery was born at Kandassankadavu, Trichur. After his schooling from a local school he took his Bachelors degree in Physics and later the Masters degree in Sanskrit and Malayalam.

Mundassery entered politics through the Kochi Prajamandalam and was elected as a Member of the Legislative Council of the princely state of Cochin in 1948.

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