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Joseph Mundassery was born on 17 July, 1903 in Trichur, Kingdom of Cochin (present-day Kerala, India), is an Indian politician (1903–1977). Discover Joseph Mundassery's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 74 years old?
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Literary critic, politician, social reformer, educationalist |
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74 years old |
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Cancer |
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17 July 1903 |
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17 July |
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Trichur, Kingdom of Cochin (present-day Kerala, India) |
| Date of death |
25 October, 1977 |
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India
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Joseph Mundassery Height, Weight & Measurements
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Joseph Mundassery Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Joseph Mundassery worth at the age of 74 years old? Joseph Mundassery’s income source is mostly from being a successful politician. He is from India. We have estimated Joseph Mundassery's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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Joseph Mundassery (17 July 1903 – 25 October 1977) was a literary critic and Indian politician from Kerala state.
He specialised in the Malayalam language and literature.
Mundassery entered politics through the Kochi Prajamandalam and was elected as a Member of the Legislative Council (MLC) of the princely state of Cochin in 1948 from the constituency of Aranattukara.
Until 1952, he was the Head of the Department of Foreign Languages at St. Thomas College, Trichur.
Later on, he became an MLC in the Travancore-Cochin Assembly in 1954, from Cherpu.
After the formation of the state of Kerala in 1956, he won the Assembly election in 1957, from Manalur, and went on to become Kerala's first Education Minister (1957–59) in the EMS Communist ministry.
In Kerala politics, he is remembered as the Education Minister who was behind the controversial Education Bill of the first EMS communist ministry of 1957.
Joseph Mundassery was born at Kandasankadavu, Thrissur.
After his schooling locally he took his bachelor's degree in Physics and later a master's degree in Sanskrit and Malayalam.
To a great extent, the proposed bill directly led to the snowballing of the Vimochana Samaram and the subsequent downfall of the E.M.S. Namboodiripad's first communist ministry in 1959.
Even though the Bill failed to pass through the Assembly, many of its provisions were later implemented by subsequent governments, albeit with amendments.
As the Education Minister of the first democratically elected ministry of the newly formed State of Kerala, Mundassery was instrumental in the establishment and restructuring of some of the early universities and prime educational institutions of the state, having had experience as the Vice Chancellor of the Cochin University of Science and Technology.
Mundassery was the guru of many pupils at St. Thomas College, Trichur, among whom were some of the future leaders of Kerala such as C. Achutha Menon and Mathai Manjooran.
He was the President of the Kerala Sahithya Parishad from 1965 to 1967, and an executive (and a founding) member of the Kerala Sahitya Akademi.
He was also instrumental in establishing the Kerala Sangeetha Nataka Akademi.
Mundassery's notability as an educationist rests partly on the reforms that he partially succeeded in bringing about in the educational sector in Kerala when he was the Education Minister.
He authored the controversial Education Bill of the First communist ministry of Kerala.
Finally, in 1970, he was elected as an MLA from Trichur constituency.
As a prominent figure in the field of Malayalam literary criticism, Mundassery was one among a well-known trio of Malayalam critics, the others being Kesari Balakrishna Pillai and M. P. Paul.
Through his controversial theory about Rooparbhadrata – formal excellence – Mundassery ushered in a new chapter of literary hermeneutics, which was unheard of in Malayalam until then.
According to the theory, the proclaimed aim of the author would inevitably lead to intentional fallacy, and an author should be evaluated on more objective criteria like his role as a spokesman of his age.
