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Mathilakom Rekhakal is written in Malayalam script, with pillars in the background.

The Mathilakom Records: Untold Vignettes from Travancore History

30th November 2019 Issue 15

Drawing our attention to a largely unexplored, and incredibly vast, archive of Travancorean history, Dr. Vysakh A. S. presents a few intriguing snippets from Uma Maheshwari’s book on the eponymous archive, Mathilakom Records.

Against Aachaaram: When is your cloth clean/pure/both?

30th September 2019 Issue 13

Traditional elites harboured peculiar notions of purity and pollution in pre-modern Kerala, which were revised by the neo-savarna of twentieth-century. This article reflects on notions of personal hygiene, cleanliness and clothing, using two excerpts from early-modern Kerala.

Translating Shakespeare in Kerala

31st July 2019 Issue 11

Ever since his works began to be translated into Malayalam in the mid-nineteenth century, Shakespeare’s adaptations have appeared as books, plays, comics and films in Kerala. Thea Buckley writes about the history of Kerala’s engagement with Shakespearean literature.

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The Mathilakom Records: Untold Vignettes from Travancore History

Against Aachaaram: When is your cloth clean/pure/both?

Translating Shakespeare in Kerala

Moments of New Legalities in British Colonial Malabar

Ancient Chera kingdom: Notes from the Sangam book Pathitruppathu

Kappiri Shrines and Memories of Slavery in Kerala

Travancore’s Pakistan Intrigues, 1946-47

Reading a “Neettu” from Nineteenth-Century Kerala

Rock Arts of Kerala

Monsoon Islam