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Monday, Jun 23, 2025
Residents of Anchuthengu must surely have been amused at the site of the Americans who were dumped in their fishing village.
The demigod, who is a part of Malabar’s celebrated folklore, received a great degree of negative publicity. An anonymous journalist writing for the now-defunct Madras Weekly Mail in 1896 made the demigod out to be a demon.
Colonel Heber Drury seemed to have mixed feelings about the city, highlighting what he liked but also being unsparingly critical on some aspects.
The old Principal’s bungalow that was built during British times near the district collector’s official residence at College Road has been turned into museum.
The city has a special connection with the British, who established a settlement there as early as the 17th century to export the highly sought-after commodities of pepper and cardamom.
Both buildings had a common owner, a Madras-based industrialist Muthiah Chidambaram Chettiar.
Narayana Iyer was one of the earliest to volunteer in the non-combatant section of the Field Service in Mesopotamia.
If the most feared man in the whole of Travancore, and perhaps its most protected, could be so daringly attacked, the royals knew better than to hold on to their dreams of an independent country called Travancore.
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