I first heard about the Koman family from the writings of Mr Jayaprakash Mallay. I ...
Calicut has had a long list of distinguished visitors. We all know about the visit ...
When Vasco da Gama landed in Calicut in 1498, he had made clear his agenda - 'P...
Calicut was the favourite destination of Yemeni merchants even after the Europeans ...
One has heard of the Kerala School of Mathematics and its lone stellar performer, Madha...
We had occasion to mention about this house in Chalappuram in connection with ...
We deeply regret to inform about the sad demise of one of the pillars of Calicut Herita...
Professor M R Raghava Varier gave an interesting talk on Tharisappally Copper Plates an...
It was a proud moment for Calicut Heritage Forum when our member Dr. Oliver Noone -...
The year 1938-39. Calicut was in the grip of fever. My sister who was all of 5 year...
Sri Rairu Nair, aged 92, has been a witness to history at the local and national level....
The city of Kollam ( Quilon,'Ku-lin' in Chinese history) witnessed histo...
Calicut can take legitimate pride as the city that gave birth to the first private ...
Guruvayur temple was being managed by the Zamorin of Calicut ( in association with ...
Nedunganad is a patch of land which once extended from Kalladikkode hills in the ea...
After the defeat of Tipu Sultan, East India Company became the undisputed rulers of...
We had, in the previous post, written about the invasion of Hyder and Tipu and the ...
It is customary for all states to participate in the Republic Day celebrations in N...
We had raised the issue of the deliberate destruction of one of the most beautiful heri...
This blog usually tries to put at least one picture of its subject. But today we ar...
We have two posts on Calicut Soap Factory: the first one about how the Vi...
We are proud to announce the publishing of Calicut Heritage Forum's President, ...
We announce with deep regret the passing away of Mr.P.K.S. Raja, the Zamorin of Cal...
Muchunti Mosque in Kuttichira is one of the most ancient mosques in Calicut. It is ...
Early this year, I was invited to participate in a lively discussion at the Nalanda Sri...
After the disastrous tsunami of 2004, researchers have been digging into the past t...
Medieval Calicut was known as a prosperous entrepot, often described as the Emporiu...
Vasco da Gama was supposed to have made his agenda clear to the first person he had...
Malabar came under British rule in 1792, although it was only in 1800 that a proper...
Historians of Calicut deal with the Chinese period in its history as a brief interl...
The image that comes to mind of the Zamorin is usually that of an old patriarch pre...
Logan’s Malabar Manual (1887) has inspired many of his successors to study th...
We had occasion to recall the great contribution of Dr.K.B.Menon to the f...
Portuguese had ruled Cochin for nearly 160 years between 1503 and 1663 before the D...
It was young Thoufeek Zakriya, a history enthusiast, avid blogger (http://jewsofmal...
Maddy has, in a recent post, mentioned the contributions of H.V. Conolly, Mala...
When Vasco Da Gama reached the shores of Calicut, the first to greet him was a Musl...
Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) was a French Romantic poet who is considered as a pi...
We had touched upon the 1942 Keezhariyur Bomb Case in an earlier post (click here)....
The title is intended to provoke. We hear the refrain that those who came to trade ...
Calicut is in the news for all the wrong reasons. There was a series of bomb ...
The colonial writers of the 19th and early 20th century like L...
When Mambram Pookoya Thangal had challenged British authority in the 1840s, his fol...
Senior citizens of Calicut would recall that the tea dust they bought some half a c...
For Pepper and Christ, a novel written by the eminent poet and former IPS offi...
What a glad moment it is, to be sure, when the sick and the seedy, the tired and testy ...
Reader Devasahayam wanted to know whether the old Beypore Railway Station exists any lo...
Munnar and Malabar – How boundaries are determined! The tragic-comic sp...
Ever wondered why Calicut, with its centuries of contact with the Chinese, did not ...
We had some time ago written about the glorious days of the Kerala Soap Institute, ...
Hyder Ali marched into Malabar from the north in 1766, leading to general panic in ...
Father Giacomo Finicio was an Italian priest of the Order of Society of Jesus who l...
When Vasco Da Gama reached Calicut, his audience with the Zamorin was delayed as th...
Calicut is famous as an ancient Port City, also known during the Zamorins' heyd...
Although Gama was feted in Lisbon as the conqueror of the east, he was still seethi...
Even after the Crusades had ended, its spirit pervaded much of Christendom in the E...
he Zamorin's forces - mostly the navy under the Marakkars - were deployed outsi...
Historians of Calicut have dwelt at length on the internecine wars which the Zamori...
Calicut witnessed a few days ago the curious spectacle of large number of people fo...
What was Calicut like before the Zamorins established thier rule in the 12th c...
This was the question posed by an avid commentator, Premnath T Murkoth, on an earli...
Around the time William Logan was writing Malabar Manual (1887), an American ...
Calicut pops up in the most unlikely stories. Business Standard reports t...
"The Zamorin's empire at its zenith included the whole of the west co...
One more landmark in the glorious past of Calicut may soon disappear – unless tho...
We had posted an entry (Dec 12, 2008) on the abandoned graves of two British soldie...
Sir Richard F. Burton (1821-1890) was a colourful Victorian gentleman. He is best k...
Generations of students all over the English speaking world were fed on the tragic ...
We in Kerala seem to have a genius for destroying our heri...
A team from Calicut Heritage Forum, led by Dr.Oliver Noone visited Trikkulam, near ...
François Pyrard was a man with a strange mission. Born in the Breton town of...
The birth of the City of Calicut is associated with a religious conversion. Legend ...
It was early morning on January 4, 1932. Gandhiji had just announced the civil...
How many communities are there in Calicut, apart from the local Hindu, Muslim and C...
Close to the Bhagavati Temple -see post below- stands the Princess of Wales di...
The history of Calicut was believed to have started with the establishment of a medieva...