Hindu nationalism and regional political culture in India: A study of KeralaHindu nationalism represents an ambitious attempt to create a subcontinental national identity based upon what is actually a highly pl
Anandavalli Thiagarajan of Somerville regularly hosts her mother-in-law, Padmaja Venkatraman, who is originally from Thrissur, Kerala State, India, and is based in Mumbai. And while Venkatraman leaves her home garden behind each time, she has found that through the practice of saving seeds, she...
who is originally fromThrissur, Kerala State, India, and is based in Mumbai. And while Venkatraman leaves her home garden behind each time, she has found that through the practice of saving seeds, she is able to grow ingredients crucial to the Indian dishes she looks forward to preparing...
The traditional clothing of women in Kerala is the ‘Kerala Saree’ or the Mundum Neriyathum. This is in two pieces, one is draped on the lower part of the body and then the neriyathu is worn over a blouse. The men of Kerala tend to be more conservative than women and stick to trad...
Essay on Indian Culture and Tradition in English - Culture is an amalgamation of different ways and patterns of living. It is a collective way of how people live in a society having part specific and partly shared attitudes
“This is India; Cradle of human race, birthplace of human speech, mother of history, grandmother of legend, great grandmother of tradition, whose yesterdays bear date with the smoldering antiquities of the rest of the nations…India had the start of the whole world in the beginning of things...
A site found at Maraiyur in the eastern foothills of Kerala and dating between the 8thand 2ndMillennia BC revealed paintings, drawings and engravings on the interior of a rock wall 39ft high and 31 ft wide. At Langhnaj in Gujarat was a sand dune that showed evidence of long human occupa...
Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things. 1. Introduction Events in Arundhati Roy's novel The God of Small Things (1997) are located in Ayemenem, Kerala, in post-independence India, and cover days in the lives of characters in 1969 and International Review of Social Sciences and Humanities...
(i.e., in a living person) was found in Mehrgarh. Eleven drilled molar crowns from nine adults were discovered in a Neolithic graveyard in Mehrgarh that dates from 7,500-9,000 years ago. According to the authors, their discoveries point to a tradition of proto-dentistry in the early ...
This article combines political analysis with ethnographic fieldwork to theorise Communist party’s construction of political allegiance and their persistence of power in the democratic context at a local village level in the state of Kerala in India. We provide an inaugural scholarly conceptualisation ...