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Ahead of the 1911 Delhi Durbar, which marked the coronation of King George V and Queen Mary as emperor and empress of India, many civil servants in India tried to curry favour with the colonial rulers.
The missionary, best remembered in Kerala for getting the first four books of the Bible’s New Testament translated to Malayalam, had served as a chaplain in Bengal for several years.
In 1936, the 24-year-old Maharaja Chithira Thirunal Balarama Varma passed the Travancore Temple Entry Proclamation decree, but this had no bearing on those who lived outside the princely state. Guruvayur was then in the Malabar district of the Madras province.
While serving as the Diwan of Cochin from 1919 to 1922, Vijayaraghavacharya focused on industrialization of the princely state as well as improving educational standards, including female literacy.
When Dr A Sankunni Mannadiar, a professor at Madras Medical College decided to marry a Scottish woman, it was an act of courage and defiance from both of them.
Renowned Marxist historian and academic KN Panikkar, a significant figure in the study of modern Indian history, communalism, and colonial society, passed away at the age of 89 in Thiruvananthapuram.
A correspondent of The Times, London, was so fascinated by backwaters and the old-world 'States of Cochin and Travancore'.
In 1911, the seat of British administration in India was shifted from Calcutta to Delhi. To mark the occasion, King George V of England visited India, prompting the British administration in Malabar to organise celebrations across the region.
The 146-page book, written under the pseudonym of Kerala Putra, critically analyses the Montagu–Chelmsford Reforms.
The sight of public activists M A Abdul Sathar and U P Mohammed purchasing stamps as the final customers of the post office on Friday turned into a poignant moment.
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