My friend Abhed Kiran is a gentle man whose lineage is traced back to the erstwhile Travancore royal family. He is an avid reader, blogger and an intellectual. Most of his blogs concern about the pre-Kerala Travancore state, its' history, polity and culture.
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| Map of Travancore- 1871 |
His blog, Dharmosad Kuladaivatam, is extremely rich in dealing with the history of Kerala, something we Malayalis have chosen to forget. Out of many, two particular blog posts deserve attention, Travancore and Britannia and Kayamkulam War and Kurup's Lane. The former talks about the State of Travancore's diplomatic relations with the Great Britain during pre-Independence in general and latter deals with the Kurup families in Thiruvananthapuram and their legacy in relation with the Kayamkulam war. Both are enlightening and offers a perspective of an Indian princely state independent of North Indian dominated national history as such. Those who have a keen eye on History wouldn't miss either of them.
p.s: I don't subscribe completely to Abhed's viewpoint on history.
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