Kerala
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FlyDie, Volume Two
Nineteen more FlyDie comments across six threads: the three pillars of caste, what the Mughals took from the land, how the Rig Veda got written, Kerala’s three-cornered trade, and Bollywood…
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FlyDie on South India
X.T.M reposts FlyDie’s comments on South India. FlyDie argues that Tamil Nadu’s elite traces to Telugu country through the Vijayanagara Nayaks, that pre-colonial empires ran on a shared elite culture,…
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The god of small comments
A reader’s reply on the assembly elections thread, reposted in full, explains how Kerala’s Christians divided into sectarian groups from the pre-colonial period, including the Knanaya and older communities, and…
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Open Thread
Open thread relaying four items from Formerly Brown: arrests near Myanmar, Tamil Nadu’s election, Kerala’s fronts, and 215 new women’s seats in the Lok Sabha.
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India’s sugar was bitter, until her first female scientist made it sweet
X.T.M retells the story of E.K. Janaki Ammal, born in Kerala in 1897 to a Thiyya family, the first Indian woman with a doctorate in botanical science, who crossbred sugarcane…