Keraliya Suguna Bodhini (also known as Keraliya Sugunabodhini) is considered the first women's magazine in Malayalam.[1] It was first published in 1886 in Trivandrum.[1][2] It was incorporated by Kerala Varma Valiya Koyi Thampuran, N.C. Narayana Pillai and K. Chidambaram Vadhyar.[3]
The 1976 edition of Sugunabodhini take on this sequence of writings that energise the moral conscience, cookery, biographies of ideal women, and other such enlightening topics promoting the domesticated, dedicated, motherly lady. It published nothing related to politics.[4]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Teena Antony (2013). "Women's Education: A Reading of Early Malayalam Magazines". Journal of Social Sciences. 12 (3). Retrieved 15 February 2017.
- ↑ "When women make news". The Hindu. Retrieved 30 June 2016.
- ↑ "What Led to the End of Kerala's Matrilineal Society?". Retrieved 30 June 2016.
- ↑ "A magazine much ahead of its time". Retrieved 30 June 2016.