Complex sentence: Brought up by his mother, Salem attended the Maharaja's College in Ernakulam and then moved to Chennai to earn his Bachelor of Arts degree, becoming the first college graduate among the "meshuchrarim".
Split into simpler sentences: Brought up by his mother, Salem attended the Maharaja's College in Ernakulam. He moved to Chennai to earn his Bachelor of Arts degree, becoming the first college graduate among the "meshuchrarim".