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.
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Travancore’s Pakistan Intrigues, 1946-47
A short glimpse into the tumultuous history of Travancore’s accession to the Indian Union and the eventful end to Sir[…]
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Reading a “Neettu” from Nineteenth-Century Kerala
Deepthi Murali For my dissertation research, I spent many months at the Kerala State Archives in Thiruvananthapuram and Ernakulam looking[…]
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