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When Malayali friends heard I would be spending some time in Palakkad in April, I was warned against it. “It’s literally a cauldron at this time,” a well-wisher said, suggesting I hold off until the onset of the monsoons. While the weather was definitely on the warmer side (by Indian standards),
At the turn of the 19th to 20th centuries, Omeo, in Australia’s Victoria state was a boomtown, thanks to a gold rush. With wealth and prosperity came an awareness to know more about the world. To fill this need, a newspaper named The Omeo Mining and Standard Gazette published articles about faraway
By the time 32-year-old George Amos Dorsey, a professor of anthropology at the University of Chicago, came to southern India, he had already established a reputation as an ethnographer of the indigenous peoples of the Americas. On a world tour that covered more than 75,000 kilometres, Dorsey ended
Given the sheer magnitude of loot and plunder that took place in India over the centuries, the name William Kidd would not ring a bell for those familiar with infamous characters of yesteryear. The Dundee-born sailor came to be known as the pirate Captain Kidd at the end of the 17th century when he
Records indicate that the Germans first arrived in Calicut in 1834 before moving up to Mangalore in the north and Palakkad (then spelt Palghat) in the south.
In the early 20th century, cities like Penang, Kuala Lumpur, and Singapore were seen as a kind of El Dorado for Malayalis with a basic English education. They fulfilled the colonial demand for clerks, receiving a degree of preference from recruiters. One particular place that had a strong Malayali
For decades, the Malayalam film industry has produced great non-commercial cinema. These essentially catered to much smaller audiences than those to reach the masses. “Art Films”, as they were called, never had much appeal among families. It simply wasn’t practical to take children to the cinema to
Malabar became a household word in 1921 because of the events associated with the so-called Moplah Rebellion. With an expected pro-Britain angle, the Western press reported in detail about the disturbances that took place in Malappuram and Ponnani. Western dispatches and wire copies of violence
When the prestigious Banaras Hindu University’s vice chancellor makes it to the news, there is often a mention of his official residence - the Cochin House. It’s not a coincidence that his home is named after the city now officially called Kochi. The university, established in 1916, has had links
In 1857, a 29-year-old with a modern English education was appointed the dewan (prime minister) of Travancore, then widely regarded as a misgoverned kingdom. The man in question, a Marathi-speaking Brahmin named T Madhava Rao was no stranger to the princely state. His father Ranga Rao had served as
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