Cherupaithangal (Malayalam: ചെറുപൈതങ്ങൾ. Full title: ചെറുപൈതങ്ങൾക്ക ഉപകാരാർത്ഥം ഇംക്ലീശിൽനിന്ന പരിഭാഷപ്പെടുത്തിയ കഥകൾ) is the first Malayalam book ever to be printed in Kerala.[1][2][3] It is not the Malayalam book ever to be printed. The first Malayalam book ever to be printed is Samkṣepavedārththham authored by Clemente Peani and printed in Rome in 1772.[4] Cherupaithangal is a collection of seven stories for children translated from English by the British missionary Benjamin Bailey and printed in C. M. S. Press, Kottayam in 1824. It is also the first book in Malayalam that could be categorized as children's literature. The existence of this book was long forgotten and, in modern times, it was brought to public awareness by George Irumbayam, an Indian literary critic and literature researcher, in June 2024.[5] The digital version of the book was made publicly available by Kerala Sahitya Akademi on 8 February 2014.[6]
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- ^ "Benjamin Bailey". keralamediaacademy.org. Kerala media Academy. Retrieved 13 July 2024.
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- ^ Srijith E. (14–20 July 2024). "മലയാളപാഠാവലികളുടെ ആദ്യകാലചരിത്രം". Mathrubhumi Weekly. 102 (17): 74–85.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: date format (link) - ^ Jisha Surya (30 March 2014). "Now, read the first Malayalam book printed in country on Net". The Times of India. TNN. Retrieved 13 July 2024.
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