Calicut Heritage

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

Karl Marx and British Torture of Malabar Peasants Peasant revolts of Malabar in the 19th and 20th centuries have been researched and written...

How does one perceive that the history of a region has hit a dead end? When orthodoxy remains unchallenged for a long period? Or when nothin...

I first heard about the Koman family from the writings of Mr Jayaprakash Mallay. I obtained more information later from the blog post,  Ha...

Calicut has had a long list of distinguished visitors. We all know about the visit of Ibn Batutta, Cheng Ho (Zheng He), and Vasco da Gama,...

When Vasco da Gama landed in Calicut in 1498, he had made clear his agenda - 'Pepper and Christ', in that order. He had been com...

Calicut was the favourite destination of Yemeni merchants even after the Europeans arrived. Traders from Hadramaut came in large num...