This volume deals with the history of Kerala with special attention to selected historical personages who had played significant roles in shaping the history of

Reproduction of photographs of tableaux of makers of Kerala history, with biographical sketches, maintained in the Museum of Kerala History, Cochin, India.

In late-nineteenth-century Kerala, a man flamboyantly rode a villuvandi (bullock cart) along a road. What might sound like a mundane act was, at that time, a de

This work attempts to give a broad idea of the diverse aspects of the socio- cultural life of the people of Kerala in a historical perspective. Old traditions a