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Ezhavas in a speech at the National Conference in Pune in 1885, which was also editorialized in the Madras Standard. Pillai and Dr. Palpu also raised their questions regarding Ezhavas in the House of Commons in England in 1897. Palpu met with Swamy Vivekanda in Mysore and discussed the conditions of Ezhavas. Vivekanda has advised him to unite the Ezhava community under the leadership of a spiritual leader. He embraced this advice and associated with Sree Narayana Guru and formed the Sree Narayana Dharma Paripalana Yogam (S.N.D.P), registered in March 1903. By mid 1904, the emerging S.N.D.P Yogam, operating a few schools, temples, and a monthly magazine announced that it would hold an industrial exhibition with its second annual general meeting in Quilon in January 1905. The exhibition was skillful and successful and was a sign of the awakening Ezhava community.
829:. One of the initial aims of the SNDP was to campaign for the removal of the restrictions on school entry but even after those legal barriers to education were removed, it was uncommon in practice for Ezhavas to be admitted to government schools. Thus, the campaign shifted to providing schools operated by the community itself. The organisation, attracted support in Travancore but similar bodies in Cochin were less successful. In Malabar, which unlike Cochin and Travancore was under direct British control, the Ezhavas showed little interest in such bodies because they did not suffer the educational and employment discrimination found elsewhere, nor indeed were the disadvantages that they did experience strictly a consequence of caste alone.
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Buddhism by missionaries who had come from the north of India and from Ceylon. The Brahmins used their symbiotic relationship with the invading forces to assert their beliefs and position. Buddhist temples and monasteries were either destroyed or taken over for use in Hindu practices, thus undermining the ability of the Buddhists to propagate their beliefs.
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onwards the SNDP had stirred the ordinary Ezhava without materially improving his position." The division in the 1920s of 60,000 acres (24,000 ha) of properties previously held by substantial landowners saw the majority of Ezhava beneficiaries receive less than one acre each, although 2% of them
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Malabar in 1925 and for Travancore in 1933. The process of reform was more easily achieved for the Ezhavas than it was for the Nairs, another Hindu caste in Kerala who adopted matrilineal arrangements; the situation for the Nairs was complicated by
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Mappillas that they "... lived mainly in the ports and at inland trading posts on the banks of rivers. They were partly outside the village ranking system ... and were theoretically outside the Hindu religious hierarchy. Nevertheless Muslims were in some contexts
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Malabar have objected to being treated as Ezhava by the government of Kerala, arguing that the Ezhava in Malabar (locally known as Thiyyar) are a separate caste. They have campaigned for the right to record themselves as Thiyya rather than as Ezhava when applying for
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caste. This theory is based on similarities between numerous of the customs adopted by the two groups, particularly with regard to marking various significant life stages such as childbirth and death, as well as their matrilineal practices and martial history. Oral history, folk songs and other old
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of
Travancore, asking for government recognition of the Ezhavas' right to work in public administration and to have access to formal education. Around this time, nearly 93 per cent of the caste members were illiterate. The upper caste Hindus of the state prevailed upon the Maharajah not to concede
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has commented, they had "little to lose and much to gain by the economic and social changes of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries". They sought the right to be treated as worthy of an
English education and for jobs in government administration to be open to them. An early Ezhava campaigner and
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introducing such distinctions prior to the 8th-century AD. This argues that the Jains needed protection when they arrived in the area and recruited local sympathizers to provide it. These people were then distinguished from others in the local population by their occupation as protectors, with the
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was practised in within certain parts of Ezhava community, but has since died out. There are several proposed arguments for this, the Valiyagraman Ezhavas argue that they practised it for economic reasons, the argument that the older brother would marry first, and share his wife with his younger
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industry but the general notion of self-help was not easy to achieve in a primarily agricultural environment; the Victorian concept presumed an industrialised economy. The organisation lost members to various other groups, including the Communist movement, and it was not until the 1950s that it
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notes that their women began to prefer the style of jewellery worn by Nairs to that which was their own tradition. Further, since Nairs cremated their dead, Ezhavas attempted to cremate at least the oldest member of their family, although cost usually meant that the remainder were buried. Other
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In February 2013, the recently formed Thiyya Mahasabha objected to the SNDP treating Ezhavas and Thiyyas as one group, rather than recognising the Thiyyas in Malabar as being distinct. The SNDP was at that time attempting to increase its relatively weak influence in northern Kerala, where the
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The Buddhist tradition of the Ezhavas, and the refusal to give it up, pushed them to an outcaste role within the greater Brahminic society. This tradition is still evident as Ezhavas show greater interest in the moral, non-ritualistic, and non-dogmatic aspects of the religion rather than the
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became the centre of such manufacture and was mostly controlled by Ezhavas, although the lucrative export markets were accessible only through European traders, who monopolised the required equipment. A boom in trade for these manufactured goods after
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impacted in particular on the export trade, causing a reduction in price and in wages even though production increased, with the consequence that during the 1930s many Ezhava families found themselves to be in dire financial circumstances.
652:(MarchâApril). Poorakkali requires specially trained and highly experienced dancers, trained in Kalaripayattu. Standing round a traditional lamp, the performers dance in eighteen different stages and rhythms, each phase called a niram.
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were matrilineal with patrilocal property arrangements, whereas in northern Travancore they were matrilineal but usually matrilocal in their arrangements for property. Southern Malabar saw a patrilineal system but partible property.
452:. An upper section, by reason of wealth and/or influence, came into the position to acquire titles such as Panicker from the local rulers. These people lived in Nalukettu, had their private temples and owned a large amount of land.
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Gough describes Ezhava subtenants in Central Travancore, who worked land held by the Nair caste. One-third of the net produce from these lands was retained by the subtenants and the remainder was the property of the Nair
628:, Pazhayakunnummal and Thattathumala regions. In this, a group of eight performers, two each, twine around each other like serpents and rise up, battling with sticks. The techniques are repeated several times.
468:, another social anthropologist and himself a member of the caste, noted the mythical belief that the Ezhava brought coconut palms to the region when they moved from Ceylon. Their traditional occupation, or
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and by their usually much higher degree of property ownership. That said, certainly by the 1880s, the Ezhavas appear increasingly to have tried to adopt Nair practises in a bid to achieve a similar status.
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from where he preached his message of "one caste, one religion, one god" and a Sanskritised version of the Victorian concept of self-help. His influence locally has been compared to that of
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relating to a dispute involving communities who were not Ezhava. The Thiyya Mahasabha (a sub-group of the Ezhava in Malabar) has also opposed the SNDP's use of the Thiyya name at an event.
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farming in the region. Another version of the story says that the king sent eight martial families at the request of a Chera king to quell a civil war that had erupted against him.
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official posts and other jobs allocated under India's system of positive discrimination. They claim that the stance of the government is contrary to a principle established by the
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aspirational changes included building houses in the Nair tharavad style and making claims that they had had an equal standing as a military class until the nineteenth century.
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led to a unique situation in twentieth-century Kerala whereby there was a shortage of labour, which attracted still more Ezhavas to the industry from outlying rural areas. The
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took at least 40% of the available land. There was subsequently a radicalisation and much political infighting within the leadership as a consequence of the effects of the
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the request. The outcome not looking to be promising, the Ezhava leadership threatened that they would convert from Hinduism en masse, rather than stay as
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script that Ezhava castes used, for they were prevented from learning the more Sanskritised Aryazuthu script which was the preserve of the upper-castes.
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paste on the forehead, a red towel round the head, red silk around the waist and bells round the ankles form the costume. This is a combination of
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were also prominent in the movement for religious conversion, having established presences in the Travancore region in the early 19th century.
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from around the 9th century, due to the influence of Arab traders. These people, and other Muslim converts in the region, are now known as
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ballads describe Chekavars as forming the militia of local chieftains and kings but the title was also given to experts of Kalari Payattu.
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districts. The ritual is also called "Mayilpeeli Thookkam" because the costume includes a characteristic garment made of mayilppeeli (
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brother(s) until they could afford to marry. It was also common for one of the brothers to be away for long periods of time.
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tended to meld the different practices that existed in the other parts of Kerala. The family arrangements of northern
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status. Thus originated the Nairs." The Ezhavas, not being among the group protecting the Jains, became out-castes.
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others all being classed as out-caste. Pullapilly describes that this meant they "... were given
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1751:. Concept Publishing Company. pp. 137â138.
1559:
2506:. University of California Press. p. 304.
2370:. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge. pp. 193â194.
2037:Temple Arts of Kerala: A South Indian Tradition
1721:. University of California Press. p. 315.
1351:. University of California Press. p. 405.
1194:
1140:. University of California Press. p. 405.
673:a traditional matrilocal form of living called
3024:Sree Narayana Gurukulam College of Engineering
2673:"Plea to lower minimum qualification for jobs"
2418:
2416:
2077:
2075:
2073:
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780:The lowly status of the Ezhava meant that, as
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2651:"Thiyyas to move SC against Government order"
2590:, Robin Jeffrey, Manohar Classics. p. 187-190
2578:, Robin Jeffrey, Manohar Classics. p. 187-190
2566:, Robin Jeffrey, Manohar Classics. p. 187-190
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997:Sree Narayana Dharma Paripalana Yogam (SNDP)
940:Dispute between different Ezhava communities
815:Sree Narayana Dharma Paripalana Yogam (SNDP)
291:: 88, 366). The Tamil inscriptions from the
2422:
2413:
2310:Missionary Encounters: Sources & Issues
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2238:
2070:
1928:Alan Bicker, RF Ellen Peter Parkes (2000).
1927:
1801:
1648:
1646:
1644:
620:Makachuttu art is popular among Ezhavas in
564:Some Ezhavas practiced ayurvedic medicine.
2870:
2856:
2822:Religion and Social Conflict in South Asia
2649:Ramakrishnan, Kalathil (23 January 2012).
2600:Osella, Filippo; Osella, Caroline (2000).
2368:Being Middle-class in India: A Way of Life
2337:. In Mines, Diane P.; Lamb, Sarah (eds.).
2087:South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies
1683:Osella, Filippo; Osella, Caroline (2000).
1678:
1676:
1653:Osella, Filippo; Osella, Caroline (2000).
1624:Social Movements and Social Transformation
1473:Politics of Tamil Nationalism in Sri Lanka
1394:
1311:. University of California Press. p.
1301:
1100:. University of California Press. p.
1090:
43:
3029:Sree Narayana Polytechnic College, Kollam
2451:
1470:
1164:Radhakrishnan, M. G. (5 September 2012).
2399:. Pearson Education India. p. 329.
2235:
2030:
2028:
2026:
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1641:
1545:The Ezhava community and Kerala politics
751:, due to caste-based discrimination. In
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687:
571:
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454:
418:
3009:Sree Narayana College for Women, Kollam
2725:"Ezhava-Thiyya convention in Kozhikode"
2545:. Kerala Historical Society. p. 19
2538:
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2081:
2034:
1870:Pillai, Elamkulam P. N. Kunjan (1970).
1771:
1673:
1547:. Kerala Academy of Political Science.
1475:. South Asian Publishers. p. 122.
1308:Society in India: Continuity and change
1097:Society in India: Continuity and change
14:
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1961:
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692:An Ezhava family of early 20th century
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2002:. Northern book center. p. 312.
1995:
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508:
3132:Temples consecrated by Narayana Guru
2039:. Asia Book Corporation of America.
1368:
982:Temples consecrated by Narayana Guru
547:, these people acted as physicians.
323:are refers to coinages found in the
65:Regions with significant populations
2620:
2282:Kerala District Gazetteers: Palghat
1836:Joseph, George Gheverghese (2003).
1620:
1587:Joseph, George Gheverghese (2003).
1445:
596:temples of south Kerala, mainly in
539:Medicine and traditional toxicology
439:
24:
2789:. University of California Press.
1542:
1385:
1007:List of Sree Narayana Institutions
955:Communist Party of India (Marxist)
581:Arjuna Nrtam (Mayilpeeli Thookkam)
403:based on the actions of the Aryan
343:for the Ezhava. According to some
25:
3281:
3034:Sree Narayanaguru Open University
2877:
2779:
2699:"Thiyya forum lashes out at SNDP"
2485:
1748:Communal Road to a Secular Kerala
1733:Tiyyars (called Iravas in Cochin)
1450:. Sahitya Akademi. p. 4155.
1230:
934:system of positive discrimination
924:The Ezhavas are classified as an
401:caste system in the Kerala region
3204:Sree Narayana Jayanthi Boat Race
2606:. Pluto Press. pp. 16, 29.
1968:. Orient Blackswan. p. 82.
761:Basel German Evangelical Mission
624:and Chirayinkizhu taluks and in
355:(Sri Lanka) sent to what is now
150:and subsequent administrations.
27:Hindu community of Kerala, India
3111:Paravoor Sreedharan Thanthrikal
2818:. In Smith, Bardwell L. (ed.).
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2118:. Pluto Press. pp. 89â90.
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1989:
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1805:Religion and ideology in Kerala
1802:Lemercinier, Geneviève (1984).
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371:Social and religious divergence
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181:in the south of the region; as
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2628:"Central List of OBCs: Kerala"
2526:
2452:Wilkinson, Steven I. (2006) .
2139:Robin Jeffrey (27 July 2016).
1842:. Orient Longman. p. 20.
1808:. D.K. Agencies. p. 246.
1593:. Orient Longman. p. 18.
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715:Spiritual and social movements
501:An Ezhava couple, 19th century
238:inscription as well as in the
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3250:Brewing and distilling castes
2934:Muloor S. Padmanabha Panicker
1777:Economic and Political Weekly
1399:. Aivakam. pp. 134â135.
1056:
972:Travancore Labour Association
643:
615:
459:A Thiyya Couple, 18th century
307:), a class of toddy tappers (
160:
153:Ezhava dynasties such as the
3142:Jagannath Temple, Thalassery
2985:Sree Dharma Paripalana Yogam
2423:Padmanabhan, Roshni (2010).
2366:. In Donner, Henrike (ed.).
1397:Being a Tamil and Sri Lankan
7:
3125:Temples consecrated by Guru
3106:Perunnelli Krishnan Vaidyar
2498:Gough, E. Kathleen (1961).
2427:. In Raman, K. Ravi (ed.).
2339:Everyday Life in South Asia
2035:Bernier, Ronald M. (1982).
1996:Singh, Abhay Kumar (2006).
1659:. Pluto Press. p. 55.
960:
524:
10:
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2431:. Routledge. p. 106.
2397:Different Types of History
2312:. Routledge. p. 158.
1689:. Pluto Press. p. 8.
727:Some Ezhavas converted to
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567:
224:
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3137:Gokarnanatheshwara Temple
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3055:Temple Entry Proclamation
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2959:Velutheri Kesavan Vaidyar
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2395:. In Ray, Bharati (ed.).
2362:Wilson, Caroline (2011).
2333:Lukose, Ritty A. (2010).
2099:10.1080/00856407408730687
1899:10.1017/s0026749x00014104
1872:Studies in Kerala History
1627:. Macmillan. p. 23.
1303:Mandelbaum, David Goodman
1257:10.1017/s0026749x01002037
1092:Mandelbaum, David Goodman
821:, who had established an
808:Temple Entry Proclamation
768:London Missionary Society
464:labour and petty trade."
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303:), tax on toddy tapping (
213:. Some are also known as
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2781:Nossiter, Thomas Johnson
2500:"Nayars: Central Kerala"
2252:"Nayars: Central Kerala"
2221:10.1177/1097184X06287764
2145:. Springer. p. 50.
1934:. Routledge. p. 9.
1715:"Nayars: Central Kerala"
1012:
897:They were considered as
60:Approx. 8,000,000 (2018)
3230:Social groups of Kerala
3005:S.N Trust H.S.S, Kollam
2542:The abstention movement
2393:"Subjects of New Lives"
1962:Gadgil, Madhav (2005).
1745:Mathew, George (1989).
273:Eelattu Poothanthevanar
246:inscription found near
165:They are also known as
3265:Ethnic groups in India
3255:Other Backward Classes
2304:Kooiman, Dick (1996).
1621:Rao, M. S. A. (1979).
1543:G., Rajendran (1974).
1345:"Tiyyar: North Kerala"
1134:"Tiyyar: North Kerala"
1037:1875 and 1891 censuses
947:Supreme Court of India
775:Church Mission Society
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388:and the rulers of the
359:at the request of the
261:The Sangam literature
3060:Sri Narayana Jayanthi
2975:Alwaye Advaita Ashram
2812:Pullapilly, Cyriac K.
2539:Kusuman, K.K (1976).
2391:Kumar, Udaya (2009).
2279:Kareem, C. K (1976).
2209:Men and Masculinities
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101:Related ethnic groups
3116:Nitya Chaitanya Yati
3086:G. Balakrishnan Nair
1887:Modern Asian Studies
1245:Modern Asian Studies
926:Other Backward Class
887:Nair Service Society
804:C. P. Ramaswamy Iyer
412:functions, but only
221:in the same region.
3260:Hindu ethnic groups
2990:Sree Narayana Trust
2968:Social institutions
2929:Mithavaadi Krishnan
2504:Matrilineal Kinship
2425:"Learning to Learn"
2256:Matrilineal Kinship
1965:Ecological Journeys
1719:Matrilineal Kinship
1446:Lal, Mohan (1992).
1349:Matrilineal Kinship
1138:Matrilineal Kinship
1078:11 May 2022 at the
1002:Sree Narayana Trust
930:Government of India
893:Position in society
860:âan order of armed
423:A Thiyan girl, 1898
157:existed in Kerala.
39:
3163:Atmopadesa Ĺatakam
2949:Sahodaran Ayyappan
2248:Gough, E. Kathleen
1711:Gough, E. Kathleen
1341:Gough, E. Kathleen
1130:Gough, E. Kathleen
844:, orchestrated by
802:of Hindu society.
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144:Hindu caste system
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3074:Associated people
3065:Vaikom Satyagraha
2944:Padmanabhan Palpu
2902:Notable disciples
2833:978-90-04-04510-1
2796:978-0-520-04667-2
2731:. 1 February 2013
2705:. 27 January 2013
2613:978-0-7453-1693-2
2527:Pullapilly (1976)
2513:978-0-520-02529-5
2465:978-0-521-53605-9
2438:978-1-13515-006-8
2406:978-81-317-1818-6
2377:978-0-415-67167-5
2265:978-0-520-02529-5
2196:. 15 August 2020.
2152:978-1-349-12252-3
2046:978-0-940500-79-2
1849:978-81-250-2495-8
1783:(29): 1159â1165.
1758:978-81-7022-282-8
1728:978-0-520-02529-5
1696:978-0-7453-1693-2
1666:978-0-7453-1693-2
1600:978-81-250-2495-8
1575:Pullapilly (1976)
1531:Pullapilly (1976)
1431:978-2-85539-630-9
1358:978-0-520-02529-5
1206:Pullapilly (1976)
1147:978-0-520-02529-5
987:Padmanabhan Palpu
834:Vaikom Satyagraha
827:Swami Vivekananda
787:Padmanabhan Palpu
765:Congregationalist
532:Vadakkan Pattukal
394:Cyriac Pullapilly
390:Kingdom of Cochin
349:Vadakkan Pattukal
321:Eela-karung-kaasu
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