Sunday, July 7, 2024

Calicut's Opium Trade ... the hidden story

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                                                        Tomb of Cornwallis at Ghazipur  As per the Malayalam calendar,  Thiruvathira Njattu...
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Tuesday, May 28, 2024

When the Gods sought refuge in Kozhikkode

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The year, 1323 AD. It was the final day of the festival at the famous Srirangam Temple, known as the most important Sri Vaishnava shrine in ...
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Sunday, December 31, 2023

The Zamorins' Life in Exile (1766 - 1795). Manorama Thampuratti and Dharma Raja

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 Although we conventionally adopt 1766 as the year in which the Zamorin era eclipsed, the seeds of the decline and fall of this power starte...
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Monday, January 30, 2023

Zamorin’s old Palace – Tangible evidence of the French testimony

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Last fortnight, a team of amateur archaeologists led by CHF Vice President and veteran archaeologist, Sri K K Muhammed stumbled on a valuabl...
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Friday, March 18, 2022

Pandit P Gopalan Nair and Captain Braithwaite : Story of a Strange Friendship

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Pandit P Gopalan Nair (1869 - 1968) Pandit P Gopalan Nair is a household name today, as the scholar who introduced Srimad Bhagavatham to Mal...
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Friday, December 3, 2021

Calicut's patronage of letters - how a negative comment can spur scholarship

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 We had occasion to write about Calicut's long tradition of encouraging scholarship here  and here . Rulers like the Manavedan Zamorin w...
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