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'''Kesavan''' took an active part in organizing Travancore State Congress and became a member of its working Committee. During the agitation for responsible government in Travancore, he was arrested several times. During Quit India Movement in 1942, Kesavan was sentenced to one year simple imprisonment and was released on 19 July 1943. After Independence, '''Kesavan''' was elected to Travancore Assembly and became a member of the first cabinet headed by Pattom Thanu Pillai, but resigned after few months. Kesavan became Chief Minister of the erstwhile Travancore-Cochin (Thiruvithamkoor-Kochi) state in 1951 and was elected to State Assembly in 1952.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.stateofkerala.in/kerala_celebrities/c-kesavan.php|title=Kerala State - Everything about Kerala|last=stateofkerala.in|website=www.stateofkerala.in|language=en|access-date=2019-07-10}}</ref> '''C. Kesavan''' was considered to be one of the '''Triumvirate of Travancore (Thiruvithaamkoor) State Congress leadership''', the other two being Pattom A. Thanu Pillai and T.M. Varghese. | '''Kesavan''' took an active part in organizing Travancore State Congress and became a member of its working Committee. During the agitation for responsible government in Travancore, he was arrested several times. During Quit India Movement in 1942, Kesavan was sentenced to one year simple imprisonment and was released on 19 July 1943. After Independence, '''Kesavan''' was elected to Travancore Assembly and became a member of the first cabinet headed by Pattom Thanu Pillai, but resigned after few months. Kesavan became Chief Minister of the erstwhile Travancore-Cochin (Thiruvithamkoor-Kochi) state in 1951 and was elected to State Assembly in 1952.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.stateofkerala.in/kerala_celebrities/c-kesavan.php|title=Kerala State - Everything about Kerala|last=stateofkerala.in|website=www.stateofkerala.in|language=en|access-date=2019-07-10}}</ref> '''C. Kesavan''' was considered to be one of the '''Triumvirate of Travancore (Thiruvithaamkoor) State Congress leadership''', the other two being Pattom A. Thanu Pillai and T.M. Varghese. | ||
Kesavan wrote an incomplete autobiography, '''''Jeevitha-Samaram,'''''<ref>https://nastiknation.org/product/jeevitha-samaram-c-kesavan/</ref> consisting of two volumes that described his life up to the time of his political prominence. A third volume was planned to cover that later period but was unwritten at the time of his death. The work combined the story of his own life with a wider narrative concerning the plight of the Ezhava caste of which he was a member. Udaya Kumar says that his "early memories are tinged with two lines of injustice: the discrimination he suffered as an Ezhava boy on the streets and other public places, where he was forced to defer to upper-caste people, and the unjust exercise of authority by the elders and the upper sub-divisions within the Ezhava caste".<ref name="Ray322" /> | Kesavan wrote an incomplete autobiography, '''''Jeevitha-Samaram,'''''<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://nastiknation.org/product/jeevitha-samaram-c-kesavan/|title=Jeevitha Samaram – C Kesavan – Nastik Nation}}</ref> consisting of two volumes that described his life up to the time of his political prominence. A third volume was planned to cover that later period but was unwritten at the time of his death. The work combined the story of his own life with a wider narrative concerning the plight of the Ezhava caste of which he was a member. Udaya Kumar says that his "early memories are tinged with two lines of injustice: the discrimination he suffered as an Ezhava boy on the streets and other public places, where he was forced to defer to upper-caste people, and the unjust exercise of authority by the elders and the upper sub-divisions within the Ezhava caste".<ref name="Ray322" /> | ||
[[File:C. Kesavan statue in Thiruvananthapuram.jpg|thumb|Statue of C. Kesavan in Thiruvananthapuram.]] | [[File:C. Kesavan statue in Thiruvananthapuram.jpg|thumb|Statue of C. Kesavan in Thiruvananthapuram.]] | ||
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== Personal life == | == Personal life == | ||
C.Kesavan was married to Vasanthi who was the daughter of [[C. V. Kunhiraman]], the founder of [[Kerala Kaumudi]]. | C.Kesavan was married to Vasanthi who was the daughter of [[C. V. Kunhiraman]], the founder of [[Kerala Kaumudi]]. | ||
His son K. R. Bhadran died in an Air India Dakota plane crash near Mettupalayam in December 1950.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://sites.google.com/site/purnanprabhu/planecrash|title=planecrash - purnanprabhu|website=sites.google.com|access-date=2019-07-10}}</ref> At that time Kesavan was living in Ross House at [[Thiruvananthapuram]] which was widely considered as a haunted house and bad omen among political class of Kerala.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/indiascope/story/19781215-xyz-823197-2014-03-07|title=The haunted house| | His son K. R. Bhadran died in an Air India Dakota plane crash near Mettupalayam in December 1950.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://sites.google.com/site/purnanprabhu/planecrash|title=planecrash - purnanprabhu|website=sites.google.com|access-date=2019-07-10}}</ref> At that time Kesavan was living in Ross House at [[Thiruvananthapuram]] which was widely considered as a haunted house and bad omen among political class of Kerala.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/indiascope/story/19781215-xyz-823197-2014-03-07|title=The haunted house|last1=7 March|last2=December 15|first2=2014 ISSUE DATE|website=India Today|language=en|access-date=2019-07-10|last3=February 24|first3=1978UPDATED|last4=Ist|first4=2015 16:48}}</ref> | ||
===Autobiography of C. Kesavan=== | ===Autobiography of C. Kesavan=== | ||
[[File:C Kesavan Jeevitha Samaram.jpg|thumb|alt=Jeevitha Samaram|Autobiography of C. Kesavan - Jeevitha Samaram]] | [[File:C Kesavan Jeevitha Samaram.jpg|thumb|alt=Jeevitha Samaram|Autobiography of C. Kesavan - Jeevitha Samaram]] | ||
C. Kesavan's autobiography is ''Jeevitha Samaram'' ―''Life Struggles'' in English. He is very candid in his autobiography, in which he elaborately illustrates his struggles in personal and political life. This biography is a good reference material as to have an insight into the turmoils that are remarkable in the pre- and post-independent history of Kerala. It is ironical that the preface to his autobiography was written by none other than his rebellious son [[K. Balakrishnan]], who had vehemently opposed his father on his right-wing political stands; a son writing an introduction to his father's autobiography is an unparalleled occurrence in Malayalam literature.<ref>https://nastiknation.org/product/jeevitha-samaram-c-kesavan/</ref> | C. Kesavan's autobiography is ''Jeevitha Samaram'' ―''Life Struggles'' in English. He is very candid in his autobiography, in which he elaborately illustrates his struggles in personal and political life. This biography is a good reference material as to have an insight into the turmoils that are remarkable in the pre- and post-independent history of Kerala. It is ironical that the preface to his autobiography was written by none other than his rebellious son [[K. Balakrishnan]], who had vehemently opposed his father on his right-wing political stands; a son writing an introduction to his father's autobiography is an unparalleled occurrence in Malayalam literature.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://nastiknation.org/product/jeevitha-samaram-c-kesavan/|title=Jeevitha Samaram – C Kesavan – Nastik Nation}}</ref> | ||
* {{Cite book |url=https://nastiknation.org/product/jeevitha-samaram-c-kesavan|title=Jeevitha Samaram - C. Kesavan}} | * {{Cite book |url=https://nastiknation.org/product/jeevitha-samaram-c-kesavan|title=Jeevitha Samaram - C. Kesavan}} | ||
[[File:C Kesavan 2018 stamp of India.jpg|thumb|alt=C Kesavan in stamp|Commemorative/Special stamp issued by Government of India]] | [[File:C Kesavan 2018 stamp of India.jpg|thumb|alt=C Kesavan in stamp|Commemorative/Special stamp issued by Government of India]] | ||