1943 Travancore private card with 6 Cash stamp from Quilon to Alleppey, with a brief history of the first Newspapers of Kerala..all started from Kottayam.
'Malayala Rajyam' founded by K G Shankar, was a prominent Malayalam daily newspaper established in 1929 from Quilon, as a weekly and later converted to a daily in 1931.
The newspaper was aimed to support the Indian independence movement and the activities of the National Congress.
It was particularly popular among the Nair community of Kerala
The newspaper eventually ceased publication in the late 1960s.
A brief history of the first newspapers of Travancore.
The first daily newspaper in Travancore was 'Rajyasamacharam', published in June 1847 by Dr. Hermann Gundert...a religious journal published by the Basel Evangelical Mission Society.
Nasrani Deepika is the oldest Malayalam newspaper still in circulation, established in 1887, followed by The Malayalam Manorama in 1888.
The newspaper 'Nasrani Deepika' was first published in 1887 by Fr. Emmanuel Nidhiry.
It was initially printed on a wooden hand press at St. Joseph's Printing Press, Mannanam, near Kottayam. The newspaper was a realization of a dream to have a publication for the Christian communities.
In 1939, the newspaper transitioned from a weekly newspaper to a daily, and it also dropped "Nasrani" from its name and became "Deepika".
