#the British in Kerala

[keralatravelnews]

The Timeless Beauty of St. John's CSI Christian Church-Wayanad

A Glimpse into Wayanad’s Colonial Past Nestled atop a serene hill near Vaithiri in Wayanad, the St. John’s CSI Christian Church stands as a testament to the region’s rich colonial history. This 150-year-old Gothic-style church, built during the British era, exudes an old-world charm that transports visitors back to a bygone era. As one of the oldest Christian churches in Wayanad, it holds…

[beenasarwar]

Local flavour, global dialogue: Amidst a season of ‘litfests’ across Southasia, a view from Kerala 

The Kerala Literature Festival is one among many such events taking place across Southasia – ideas hubs and cultural melting pots that provide a meeting place for writers, artists, musicians, booklovers, activists – and children  By Neha Kirpal / Sapan News The ‘litfest season’ that takes place across Southasia during the cooler winter months is winding to a close. From the Dhaka Literary…

[moonmausoleum]

The Haunted Mysteries of 25 GB Bungalow in Bonacaud

An abandoned house in Bonacaud known as 25 GB Bungalow by an old tea plantation is now thought to be haunted. A story about a British child who died under mysterious circumstances started to circulate and it is said that her ghost is haunting her home.

An abandoned house in Bonacaud known as 25 GB Bungalow by an old tea plantation is now thought to be haunted. A story about a British child who died under mysterious circumstances started to circulate and it is said that her ghost is haunting her home. Atop a hill in Bonacaud, Trivandrum, 25 GB Bungalow stands as a relic of the past, overlooking a sprawling tea plantation and estate bordering…

[edvoroindia]

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[probablyasocialecologist]

Many on the right have sought to depict the protesters as extremists, but the sheer scale and regularity of the protests and actions are in fact a sign of how mainstream pro-Palestinian feeling is within British society. The question, assuming the movement succeeds in ending the Israeli assault, is where does it go next? What becomes of movements when they stop moving? Traditionally, social movements went through phases of emergence, coalescence, institutionalisation and decline, followed by dissipation and co-optation by mainstream parties. This usually took decades, the classic case being the US civil rights movement. Yet the era since “Occupy Wall Street” in 2011 has been one of so-called “flash movements”. From Black Lives Matter to the gilets jaunes, movements have coalesced around hashtagged slogans with astonishing celerity, producing deep political crises – and then subsiding. The Gaza campaign resembles a flash movement. It didn’t come out of nowhere. Palestine has been a cause of the international left since the six-day war in 1967, and the UK has seen repeated protests over Israel’s flattening of the West Bank, invasion of Lebanon and serial bombardments of Gaza. There is a network of organisations doing the groundwork, such as the Palestine Solidarity Campaign and Stop the War. But the turnout for these protests shows the virtues of the flash movement: it can rapidly mobilise masses of people, tolerate a diversity of tactics and keep focus on a simple, morally obvious demand. In many respects, it is succeeding. In the UK, despite efforts to demonise the protests as “hate marches”, and the then home secretary Suella Braverman’s inept provocation of the far right against the protests, the demonstrations brought up to 800,000 people to the streets on 11 November. This was the largest such demonstration since the invasion of Iraq. Nor was the UK alone. There have been mass protests everywhere from Tokyo and Kerala to Cairo, Washington DC and Rio de Janeiro. In France and Berlin, protesters have defied official bans. In the US, the Jewish left has led the movement and often engaged in the most militant tactics,including blockading Manhattan Bridge. The embattled Israeli left has also staged protests, despite a climate of police repression and mob violence. The movement has done what successful movements do: win over public opinion, catalyse cracks in elite consensus and expose divisions in the state. These splits were visible in the form of staffer dissent in the US state department, frontbench resignations in Labour over Keir Starmer’s refusal to support a ceasefire, protests by Dutch civil servants and EU employees, Macron’s ceasefire demand, and recently the call from Canada, Australia and New Zealand, three of the Five Eyes intelligence-sharing coalition countries, for an “immediate humanitarian ceasefire”. Only the US now vetoes UN ceasefire resolutions.

[chai-en-kaadhale]

shutup

take my very correct and based desi hcs

#1 Biggs from ffvii

delhi guy

he would call shinras president a bhenchod

doesn't speak hindi hindi- rather he mixes some of his language in, but his native language sounds similar anywyas so his hindi just sounds like a dialect or accent

#2 Anthy Himemiya from rgu (and i mean obv she looks desi but)

she's bengali 100%

she would make cham chams that are pink like utena and then chuchu would eat them all

over the course of the series she's become accustomed to being quiet and unheard, which is a habit she still has to strive to break unless she's either around utena or another bengali person. in which case yappery commences.

orrr tbh she probably knows a few languages. either utena or another south asian period.

itd also be funny if she was bangladeshi bc she lives in japan and their flags are just the same but different colors

#3 Rohan Kishibe from jjba

HIS NAME IS LITERALLY ROHAN?????

half gujurati half japanese

i actually came up with a stupid oc for him. the oc being his grandma. and im putting the concept here bc FUCK YOU ITS MY POST

He also drinks a shit ton of chai. it's what fuels him through the mangaka struggle

So Rohan's parents eloped and most of his family opposed the marriage except his Super Cool Dadi and she's one of the only ones of his extended family who visits from time to time. She managed to study briefly in an English boarding school but she also fucking hated the british empire and regularly threw shit at buckingham palace at every opportunity. Incidentally, so did Joseph Joestar. They met and were penpals throughout the series. Josuke Koichi and Okuyasu are super chill with her, much to Rohan's dismay.

#4 - Demifiend from smt3

We don't know. that naoki is fully japanese. okay.

He has the brown boy lashes

There's a GIF on tenor that has the demifiend and it says "why am i brown" so CLEARLY-

From vibes alone he's either Kannada or Marathi, leaning more towards Kannada imo

#5 - Sumeru Character Rapid Fire

Nahida - She's from Himachal Pradesh bc she looks like she'd be from a place called Himachal Pradesh. But definitely Northeast or Nepali.

Tighnari - He's Malayali bc ever since his release ive been using his white cloth thing to justify calling him a femboy bc it looks like those sarees from kerala. not that he needs any. fruit.

Collei - Collei's tamil bc im tamil and my Tamil Senses went off upon seeing her

Alhaitham - Uttar Pradeshi probably (if south asian at all)

yeah ok youre free now byebye

[pant--eater]

what do you think fry's family is like!!! i love him sooo much every time you draw him it's like a gift 🥺🥺🥺

WAUGHGHGHJ these Fry questions make me so happy since he's my Blorbo(TM) <3 Gah I'm itching to talk about him, so ask and you shall deserve!! Also thank you SO much I'm so glad you love my art <33

little sketches related to what I'm about to yap about. ANYWAYS here's wonderwall

So on my old account I used to hc he is Indian-British, whose family hails from Travancore (Kerala nowadays). This was based on what I ASSUMED was canon info since back in January, all Chicken Run wiki articles about him mentioned he's Indian-British. But apparently that's not 100% settled info what his ethnicity is?? And the wikis have been edited since. His VA Nick Mohammed is from a mixed Cypriot/Indo-Trinidadian family though and I spent time reading about Indian-British immigrant history to get Fry's characterization accurate, so imma keep with that hc.

Anyway! I headcanon Marcus is the only child of wealthy businessmen that owned a highly successful trade company. His Vaishya grandparents moved to Britain during the late Victorian era; after all one of the only ways a PoC family could make it back then in Britain was by being filthy rich, and very early on the Fry family had been forced to adopt a "British" way of living in order to be taken seriously by the shitass imperial society. Such as switching to a British surname and avoiding to display too much of their original culture in public. A colonial trauma that still prevails, since Fry's parents christened him with a heavily English name.

I REEEALLY wanna give a try to designing Fry's parents sometime!! But I imagine his parents as sort of a healthier parallel to Melisha's parents; his father is a pristine and calm gentleman with a soothing voice and a love for theatre and literature (a trait that Marcus inherited LMAO) while his mother is more stern, headstrong and very, VERY proud of her status. (but she also has a infectuous smile and laughter and has a bombastic overdramatic streak...something that Fry inherited as well)

They're both native Malayam speakers, and while their family in public strives to keep Keralite culture hidden, they made sure to teach Marcus to speak his native language fluently as well, along with Hindi, Bengali, Tegulu and Tamil. Along with that, they frequently go on family trips to Travancore and enjoy things like inji neer, Kathakali performances (which inspired Fry on his love for theatre <3) and Carnatic music.

Both parents pushed Marcus to study hard and gain multiple academic degrees - it was all out of love and concern, because they wanted Marcus to be able to survive in the cruel world out there without only relying on his money. (Once again, a PoC immigrant family experience that I can identify with as well... even if society nowadays is not nearly as racist as it was back then, unfortunately PoC people are often forced to study waaaay harder than white people in order to make it.) Because they had lived through the years of great depression in the 1930s, and while they managed to survive with most of their wealth intact, they knew that one should not rely only on money for support since anything could happen.

Fry, as a child, was a gifted A+ grade student and a very well-behaved, so his parents called him a little ray of sunshine and a future hope. He yearned to be perfect so his parents would never be disappointed in him. Something that later on contributed MASSIVELY to Fry's gifted child burnout, and how he adopted a sinister, sadistic fascination with mind control and manipulation during his Cambridge years.

Once Marcus came out as trans and genderfluid to his parents, his father was very patient and accepting, but his mother spent several years in denial before finally accepting him. Not directly out of transphobia - but because she was afraid that Marcus would be discriminated, attacked and hurt by people, and that he should focus first on building a career for himself instead of bringing a bad name to the Fry family like this, with an outrageous gender identity. But she soon realized that hiding himself would only hurt her child on the long run. Also - the way Fry managed to fully bribe (cough mind control cough) British officials to switch the gender in his personal info and passport was nothing less than impressive to both of his parents LMFAOOOO and they're very proud

However despite all of this, Fry retains a loving relationship to his parents!! He goes to their mansion every Christmas, and they're also VERY accepting and encouraging to his marriage to Melisha. In fact, his mom was relieved to see Fry had married a very orderly, stern and no-nonsense woman, because Marcus had always been a scatterbrained mess and a reckless money-spender. He made a wonderful scientist, but business-running had never been his thing, so Melisha taking care of all that is like a lottery win to the Fry parents. ESPECIALLY since Melisha came from a poor household - a woman like this, who knows what it's like to live at the rock bottom, surely knows to keep Marcus humble and not let him make flimsy business decisions!! (either way Melisha is still a bit intimidated by Fry's mom, which says a lot considering what kind of a girl Melisha herself is LMFAO)

Pluuuus... the Harsh Expectations(TM) is something that Melisha can relate to </3 It's something that catches her entirely off guard, when she learns this detail about Fry's past. After all, the silly goofy doctor is like an endless ray of sunshine, he's rich and successful. (and we all know what Melisha's mother told her about money bringing happiness...) How could he ever have any worries or feelings of inferiority??

It's a detail that makes (in my hcs) Melisha fall even deeper in love with Fry and become tenfold more protective over him :''') <3 Once she realizes what a horrific burden this goofball is carrying on his back, and yet he still finds the energy every day to stay positive, be optimistic and support Melisha during her hard days.

[omgindiablog]

Palakkad, Kerala, India: Palakkad is a city and municipality in the Indian state of Kerala. It is the administrative headquarters of Palakkad District. It was established before Indian independence under British rule and is known by the name Palghat. Palakkad is famous for the ancient Palakkad Fort, which is in the heart of the city and was captured and rebuilt by Hyder Ali in 1766 which later fell into the hands of Zamorin in 1784. The city is about 347 kilometers northeast of the state capital. Wikipedia

[hopefulkidshark]

Palakkad, Kerala, India: Palakkad is a city and municipality in the Indian state of Kerala. It is the administrative headquarters of Palakkad District. It was established before Indian independence under British rule and known by the name Palghat. Palakkad is famous for the ancient Palakkad Fort, which is in the heart of the city and was captured and rebuilt by Hyder Ali in 1766 which later fell into the hands of Zamorin in 1784 . The city is about 347 kilometres northeast of the state capital, Thiruvananthapuram. Wikipedia

[world-of-wales]

I'm 99.9 percent sure I know which spa/retreat in Kerala that Chuck and Cam go to.... the British press could never achieve this level of efficiency 😂😂

[tellltaleacademy-if]

are there any fun facts you can tell us about the ros?

Sure! Here are some fun facts about the RO's that have been revealed so far!

Nyla

Nyla's a jock! She loves to pratice all kinds of sports and she's jacked !

Nyla is British-Indian and Malayalee, her parents were born in Kerala

She seems like a very sweet innocent girl at first and that gives people the impression they can step on her but she's actually quite independent and protective of the people she loves, so be careful.

Huge Kpop nerd, always in the loop, knows all the lore and gossip, do not ask her about T-ARA bullying scandal she will not shut up about it !

Soapy

Used to be addicted to Genshin Impact before having to spend all their money on supporting MC

They are a scorpio sun with a capricorn rising and pisces moon 💀

MC is more jealous of them giving other idols attention than they are of MC possibly being with someone else.

They don't have one article of clothing that is not black. Not a single clothing article with some color. All black turtleneck all day, black long pants, black frame glasses and a black mask.

Dambi

She is a great baker and for her debut showcase with her former group Endash, she baked 120 cookies for the fans that showed up

She has been auditioning to become a trainee ever since she was 7 years old, and officially entered the industry when she was 10.

Her favorite girl group is SNSD and her bias is Jessica. When she left the group she fell ill for a whole week and went on an online rampage, tweeting random curse words and crying. Her and her best friend, Kim Seowon even posted a video where they yell at the camera " FUCK YOU SM ENTERTAINMENT!!! SM ENTERTAINMENT DO YOU HAVE NO SHAME ? " , crying completely red in the face.

Her ideal date would be GETTING THE FUCK OFF KOREA and going somewhere nobody knows her 😭

[hobiebrownismygod]

Headcanon: Pavitr knows Kalaripayattu and uses it when he fights

History:

Kalaripayattu is an ancient form of martial arts that was specifically designed for the battlefield. It originated in a state named Kerala, in South-western India and is actually fairly similar to Kung-Fu.

In the 13th-16th century, Kalaripayattu was a way of life in Kerala, believed to have been often taught to children as customary training. However, after the British Invasion and imperialism of India, Britain set laws in place to quell any possibility of Indian rebellion, preventing people from practicing or training in this martial art form. After this, it was only taught and practiced in very rural areas in order to avoid confrontation with the law.

Eventually, in the 1920s, it was revived and during a period of traditional rediscovery. There was a rise in the number of Kalaripayattu schools and Kalaripayattu presentations gained a lot of popularity. Now, although still not as well-known as many of the other Asian martial arts, it is a widely-known martial art form in South India and practiced by many.

It is also believed to be the oldest surviving martial art in the world, with a history spanning over 3000 years.

Style:

Like most martial arts, Kalaripayattu focuses on mind over body. Having complete control over your mind is essential to being able to succeed in mastering this art.

Ashtha Vadivu are 8 poses derived from the instinctual movements of wild animals, poses that were designed to make your body more flexible and powerful. They also help the student develop balance and stability.

Maithari are 18 different exercises practiced to achieve peak physical fitness and heightened reflexes. By practicing these, one can strengthen their body and their mind in order to be able to properly participate in combat situations.

Kalaripayattu also involves the usage of different kinds of weapons. Spears, swords and shields are all used, along with maces and really any weapon that can slash, stab or cut. Special wooden whips, knives and staffs can also be used.

This is an example of a Kalaripayattu tournament!

Headcanon:

In the comics, Pavitr was often bullied because of the fact that he came from a small town and wore different clothes than the other boys in Mumbattan. He was given his powers by an ancient Yogi, gaining the magical powers of a spider.

Because Kalaripayattu is very spiritual and based off the religious myths, it would make sense for Pavitr to incorporate it into his fighting style! I think he would've learned it prior in order to protect himself from his bullies, and eventually began to use it when he fought villains as Spider-man as well.

Its a lethal fighting style with weapons, but in hand-to-hand combat, wouldn't be as deadly so it would make sense for Pavitr to use it when he fights, in order to defend himself or strike his enemies.

Just random thoughts <3

Sources below the cut!

[edvoroindia]

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[balrogballs]

Hello, Ms. Balls! When you're feeling up to it, I have a question about your AU. If this was already mentioned in what you've uploaded thus far, I'm sorry, I'm an idiot and I missed it, but when were Elrond and Elros taken back to England? Before independence, after, during the Partition...? What were their experiences like during that time, and what were the Feanorians' experiences like? Asking because I was doing a little reading about the history of Kerala in the 20th Century last night because I wanted to know what the Partition was like in Kerala in terms of any violence, population transfers, etc., that your characters might have dealt with.

Most of what I know about the Partition comes from a class on the experiences of women and girls during ethnic and sectarian violence that I took as an undergrad many, many years ago. We spent a good chunk of the semester learning about violence against women during the Partition and studying survivor narratives, which were then and remain now some of the most horrifying things I've ever read. But we looked mostly at Punjab Province and Rajputana, places that were actively being split between India and Pakistan, and with Kerala being much farther south and on the coast, I'm not sure whether the impact would have been the same. I do know that the king of Travancore wanted to be independent of both Britain and India, but from what I understand your characters are in or near Kozhikode, which was in Malabar District, not Travancore, during British rule, and most of what I found on Google about Malabar during the Partition was either very vague, very confusing, or from sites that didn't seem to be particularly reputable.

If this information is going to be revealed in later chapters, or even if this question would just be more work to answer than you feel like doing, please feel free to ignore!

Hello hello,

And I am LOVING this level of engagement!!!

So the reason Kerala is a bit hit-or-miss online re: Partition narratives is that there wasn’t much of an impact on the state itself. Re: Partition, the vast majority of the violence was between — and this is of course oversimplification, especially as the British Raj were involved — Hindu and Muslim communities, majority in the Northern and “Hindi belt” middle states.

Communal violence between these two communities were easily stoked and all three of the Congress Party (India), the Muslim League (Pakistan) and the British Raj had fanned the flames before freaking out at the fire.

Most of the Southern states were either Hindu-majority states OR territories like Goa, which were majorly Christian and/or occupied by other foreign states, hence again, violence did not carry over too much.

Kerala however, was a bit of an outlier — there was and still remains actually a large Muslim population there, but whilst some communal tension did exist and still does, it escaped major religious violence for two reasons: ‘foreign’ religion being spread in the state across centuries of trade or refugee migration rather than conquest meant it wasn’t susceptible to ‘invader’ narratives. Eg. Parsi communities and Jewish communities had all settled in Kerala at various periods, all primarily through trade or refugee migration. Secondly, the state was almost exclusively controlled by trade unions, Marxists and other left groups.

So essentially, Kerala was relatively peaceful during the time of Partition in that specific context, because the religious communities had lived in (relative) harmony for centuries + the state having a very “leftist” consciousness meant even the religious folk, for the most part, tended to have a secular political outlook. Case in point in fic is of course the Fëanorians, who are culturally Muslim but don’t practice, and their politics have nothing to do with their religion.

(Although, as I mentioned in the fic it’s a very ‘theoretical’ Marxism in that they’re basically just democratic socialists who really like the colour red, nowhete near Soviet-style austere communism or Chinese-style cultural upheaval, it was more — like Maedhros puts it — making sure the bins get picked up and that every child can read — hence why it worked pretty well and continues to do so… the opposition party are centre-left, eg. Hilary Clinton types in a domestic context, and they serve as the ruling party alternatively.)

However, that doesn’t mean political violence doesn’t exist there, far from it, it’s not at all idyllic and to this day the ruling and opposition parties go out and beat each other up for memes… a couple of scraps from the upcoming chapter:

In the sixties and seventies, the political theatre of Kerala consisted of two primary stages: talking and thrashing. This was the kind of teamwork that appealed to the father-son duo of Maedhros and Elros — the latter a debonair, silver-tongued ideologue with an advanced degree in political theory, and the former a six-foot-three powerhouse with a millimetre-long fuse, kilometre-long rap sheet and an advanced degree in battering people he didn’t like.

Maedhros trying to invite the opposition party to a birthday party for a child:

“Oh, yes, you’re right,” Maedhros nodded, before turning back to Elros. “Tell Finrod if he and his people don’t turn up, I’ll break their legs next time I see them, and personally see to it that Dior’s days are numbered. Oh, then stop at the post office and send a telegram to Caranthir and his jungle people, and tell him I’ll break more than his legs if I don’t see him.”

Essentially, this kind of thing was commonplace between the two parties, however in a national context the two (both being ostensibly secular and liberal) tend to team up against the right wing/British Raj. However, Maedhros talking about thrashing people like it’s a yoga class wouldn’t really be off the mark for a party leader in the 50s-70s. It’s also a wink wink nudge about what the British Raj and the postcolonial State considered “violence” in that Maedhros and his buddies breaking legs for breakfast isn’t a problem for them, but a tiny act of resistance to police brutality landed him in prison for 10 years.

But yes - Elrond and Elros had a relatively idyllic childhood because they were very far removed from the violence of Partition — whilst they were found by the brothers in Delhi in around 1937 while Maedhros was at his most, er, revolutionary, said brothers lived in Kerala so until 1952, Elrond and Elros were raised there.

In the fifties, Kerala was also a pain in Nehru’s ass because while everyone else tried to get on with Independence, Kerala went and tried to secede from the union over language politics (tbh they were right but guys, TIMING 😭). Either way, the bulk of the problems within the state were regionally constrained, and whilst violence was commonplace, it was not mass violence but rather political infighting.

However, Elrond’s return comes at the close of Indira Gandhi’s Emergency, which was a whole other kettle of fish re: state oppression — fic itself goes into it later so I won’t expand much here, but essentially Kerala was Not In The Dictatorship’s Good Books, considering the political direction of the state and its ruling parties’ tendency to gang up against the centre, tons of police violence etc.

To this day the state continues to be a pain in the national ass tbh, bless them, considering the central government of India has never shifted further left than “milquetoast centrism”, but as of late they just… pretend it doesn’t exist for the sake of everyone’s mental health. Eg. peacenik cousin with a massive peace dove forehead tattoo in a family of war vets.

Hope this helps!!!

[chocolattefeverdreams]

In Kerala rn, I got something good about it I thought I'd share.

The good stuff is the Kochi airport, which completely runs on solar energy.

And call it Kochi International Airport. Not Cochin. Cochin is what British colonialists called Kochi during their time here. Unfortunately, the colonial sentiment still runs in many places in India, especially big cities. In our solarpunk future we give a giant middle finger to colonialism trying to make people feel ashamed of their native language.

[uwuyongyapper]

Hi!, So u can't read or write in our language so did you understand what I said?? (Hope you did😂) Whats it like, being half-Indian?

And how did you like orv?,( did u cry). Sorry for the random questions but it's so nice to meet someone in this way😆.

Have a good day! 🩵

Hii omg!! Aaaa yes, I can read a bit like third grade level of malayalam 😅😅, and just barely enough to read the location names on buses (I live in Kerala), it's kinda awkward tbh because my mom is 100% malayali but my dad is British so I was the foreign kid in my school, and along with it, was some bullying, isolation n stuff but it's okay, I yelled at them back.

I found orv by complete accident, by downloading webtoon and seeing orv in the recommended section. While I started the webtoon, i didn't finish it because I wanted to finish the novel first. yes I did cry. ALOT. like hysterical crying, couldn't breathe crying, like kdj was a bit too relatable for me, (I want to blend him in my mummy's preethi zion mixie) I cried for a week straight, my desi mummy made fun of me so bad 💀💀 but my dad was just straight up making fun of the fact that there's 500+ chapters in the novel.

It's totally okay girl, I'm glad you asked tbh, because I was thinking about how to start talking to you too without it being awkward 😁😁. Hope you have a good day too bestie 💖💖