Editorial from 1910 published in The Svadeshabhimani critiques the role of certain publications in promoting religious hatred.
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Cilmem Mappilem: Qualifying the Mappila Representation in Popular Malayalam Cinema.
How is the Mappila ‘qualified’ in Malayalam Cinema? Ahnas Muhammed dives deep into the popular cinematic representations of the Malabar Muslim identities and explores how the changing representations have reshaped societal perceptions and cultural values.
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Mythical, Conventional, or Lost Histories: The Islamic and Cultural Heritage of Tirurangadi
In light of a lack of conventional historical sources, Sadik weaves a cultural and Islamic history of Tirurangadi using available archival materials and oral narratives from his fieldwork.
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The Holy Family Severed: Kaathal’s Reconstitution of the Heteronormative Family in Malayalam Cinema
The recently released film, Kaathal, has ignited public discussions of gender and sexuality in Kerala. But to what extent does it subvert Kerala’s norms around family, caste, and class? Sandra Elizabeth Joseph reflects.
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Democracy Breeds Its Own Violence: Understanding Political Conflict in North Kerala
Ala speaks to Ruchi Chaturvedi, whose book, Violence of Democracy, published this year, draws on years of engagement with political violence in north Kerala to think about the forms of violence produced by the very practice of democracy.
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Memories of Slavery: The Bonded Labour System in Valliyoorkaav Temple
Through oral narratives collected during their fieldwork, Shibina and Anjitha delve into the obscure history of a bonded labour system that was practiced in the Valliyurkaav temple of Wayanad.
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‘Everything Old is New Again’: Telling the Story of the Sabarimala Battle
In anticipation of Deepa Das Acevedo’s forthcoming book, The Battle for Sabarimala: Religion, Law, and Gender in Contemporary India (Oxford University Press, forthcoming), Ala spoke to Deepa about the nuances of the case, and the meeting of the old and the new in this heavily mediatised legal battle for women’s entry into a temple.
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Communism, Caste, and the Paradox of the ‘Party Village’ in Kerala
Kerala’s political fortunes and election outcomes have long interested researchers, but the phenomenon of ‘party villages’ and their centrality to electoral democracy in Kerala have been underexplored. Nitasha and Nisar offer us a glimpse into their study of everyday politics in a party village.
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പുലയത്തറയിലെ അടിയാള ജീവിതങ്ങൾ
ദളിത് ക്രൈസ്തവ ജീവിതാനുഭവങ്ങളെകുറിച്ച് 1962 ൽ പ്രസിദ്ധീകരിച്ച ഒരു കൃതി ഇന്നും പ്രസക്തമാകുന്നതിനെക്കുറിച്ചു സിതാര എഴുതുന്നു.
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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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