The Dutch landed at the Malabar Coast for spice trade 106 years after the advent of Vasco de Gama.
പോര്ട്ടുഗീസില് നിന്നും വാസ്കോഡിഗാമ കോഴിക്കോട് എത്തി 106 വര്ഷം കഴിഞ്ഞപ്പോള് സുഗന്ധവ്യഞ്ജന വ്യാപാരത്തിന് ...
Many of the mythological stories in Kerala are common with the rest of India coming from the same Vedic Storytelling History....
Trivandrum (Now Thiruvananthapuram) city and several other places in the district loom large in ancient tradition, folklore and literature....
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When the Indian struggle for independence began to spread the length and breadth of the country in the 1920s, the present state of Kerala existed as three different regions: Malabar in the north which was ruled by the British directly and two kingdoms – Cochin, and Travancore in the south. Cochin and Travancore were sovereign kingdoms, but they too were under the thumb of the British who kept a control on things through resident representatives who overtly and covertly interfered in the local affairs....
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The royal couple who were on a State Visit to India at the invitation of the President Ramnath Kovind paid a visit in Kerala on 17 October. The Royals were on a short visit in Kerala by the invitation of Mr Pinarayi Vijayan who was in the Netherlands months ago. The then Princely State of Cochin was under the paramountcy of the Netherlands during seventeenth century. The Bolgatty Palace in Cochin was constructed by them. The king and the queen visited the Mattanchery Palace which the Dutch renovated for the then reigning king of the Princely State of Cochin.They participated in the Seminar held in the Palace. The Royal couple watched a documentary on the Dutch rule in the then Cochin. Later Agreements were signed by the two countries for the exchange of archaeological documents. The king Willem later said that the co-operation with India would continue. The Royal couple visited on 19 October Kuttanad, and they together enjoyed the backwater cruising there. The king elicited from the officials the mode of cultivation as practised in Kuttanad. Later the Royal couple went for the Netherland via Cochin.
Netherland’s Queen Maxima and King Willem are being received at the International Airport, Cochin by His Excellency Muhammad Arif Khan Governor of Kerala, Mr Tom Thomas, the Chief Secretary of Kerala and Prof. C. Raveendranath, Minister for Education of the Government of Kerala.
Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan presents a memento to King Willem-Alexander of The Netherlands and Queen Maxima in Kochi.
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The Dutch landed at the Malabar Coast for spice trade 106 years after the advent of Vasco de Gama.
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The Imperial Gazetteer of India was a gazetteer of the British Indian Empire, and is now a historical reference work. It was first published in 1881. Sir William Wilson Hunter made the original plans of the book, starting in 1869.
Volume 1
Abar to Balasinor
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Volume 2
Balasor to Biramganta
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Volume 3
Birbhum to Cocanada
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Cochin to Ganguria
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Ganjam to India
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India
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English Essays and Poems by Ulloor S parameswara Iyer based on Onam
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Extract of history of Travancore - Madras from the book "Duke of Clarence and Avonodale in South India" by J D Ress published in 1891
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