Akhila Kumaran delves into the pitfalls of understanding certain communities merely as ‘outliers’ to Kerala’s so-called development model.
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Category: Issues
The Dewan and The Reformer: Sir C. P. Ramaswami Aiyer on Sree Narayana Guru
Historian and writer Uma Maheswari shares selected excerpts of a speech delivered by Sir. C.P. Ramaswami Aiyer in 1942 about Sree Narayana Guru, his teachings, and caste reforms.
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The World of Malabar Circuses
Accompanied by lively illustrations of her own, anthropologist Eléonore Rimbault takes us through the ways in which Kerala’s circuses are entangled with India’s history.
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Kerala during the ‘Age of Iron’: Findings from a Recent Excavation
Abhayan G. S. and Rajesh S. V. write about findings from the ongoing excavation of an Iron Age burial in Kerala, delving into the minute details that could unlock important clues to past human settlements in the Kerala region over two thousand years ago.
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Has Malabar History Reached a Dead End?
Recent research on Hoysala history has brought up interesting facts which contradict the assumption that the second Chera empire extended[…]
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(Mis)Representations of the NRI Gulf Kid in Malayalam Cinema
Aathma Dious argues that Malayali filmmakers have failed to move past popular—often stereotypical—tropes when it comes to representing second and[…]
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Ala Podcast: മൺപാത്രങ്ങൾ പറയുന്ന പ്രാചീനകഥകൾ: പുരാവസ്തു ഗവേഷണം കേരളത്തിൽ
ഇന്ന് കേരളം എന്ന് അറിയപ്പെടുന്ന പ്രദേശത്തിന്റെ പ്രാചീന ചരിത്രത്തെക്കുറിച്ചു ഐതീഹ്യങ്ങൾക്കപ്പുറം ശാസ്ത്രത്തിനെന്താണ് പറയാനുള്ളത്? പഴയ ധാരണകളെ മാറ്റിമറിക്കുന്ന ചില പുതിയ കണ്ടെത്തലുകളെക്കുറിച്ചു സംസാരിക്കുകയാണ് പുരാവസ്തു ഗവേഷകയായ ജസീറ[…]
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Provocative Sounds: Work, Leisure, and Malayalam Radio in Qatar
What can the radio-listening practices of working-class Malayalis in the Gulf, and the inter-ethnic tensions they produce, tell us about[…]
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Changing before their very eyes: Urban Expansion and Dispossession in Kammattipadam
Yadu and Sujeesh analyse how the visual world crafted by the 2016 movie Kammattipadam provides minute insight into the class[…]
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Mr. Family Historian (or kudumba-charitrakaaran): The Syrian Christian Case
Accompanied by original sketches, Nidhin Donald presents a tongue-in-cheek perspective of the trend of producing written ‘family histories’ among Syrian[…]
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