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- Sun Jun 22, 2025 5:34 pm
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 17. Scattered thoughts in my mind
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50. Auspiciousness and inauspiciousness signs displayed by individuals
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif Let’s address the foolish delusion from the previous piece about beating a doctor to spark social reform. In the 1990s, an incident in Calicut Medical College saw a doctor paraded through the streets with a garland of slippers in the name of social progress. ...
- Sun Jun 22, 2025 5:05 pm
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 17. Scattered thoughts in my mind
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49. The Satanic language is the problem
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif During an inspection tour to Palghat, Mrs. CPS took me along in the car. We stayed at the home of a woman who had retired as a Sub-Registrar, someone Mrs. CPS knew from her own days as a Sub-Registrar in a nearby office. This woman was much older than Mrs. CP...
- Sun Jun 22, 2025 5:02 pm
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 17. Scattered thoughts in my mind
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48. Mansabdari in words
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif I first want to discuss how individuals react to words. In Trivandrum, I heard that Mukkuva women were highly reactive back then. At fish markets and elsewhere, they’d respond to men in the same tone, even using abusive language without hesitation. I don’t kn...
- Sun Jun 22, 2025 4:48 pm
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 17. Scattered thoughts in my mind
- Replies: 51
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47. The language and words that induce epileptic seizures
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif The previous piece focused on Travancore, it seems. Things weren’t much different in Malabar. There, too, the hierarchical tone of Malabari language words sharply distinguished those with power from ordinary people. The only difference in Malabar might have b...
- Sun Jun 22, 2025 4:36 pm
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 17. Scattered thoughts in my mind
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46. This language which has a hypocritical mindset has to be banished
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif During Mrs. CPS’s tenure as Registration IG in Travancore, I have several observations worth noting. I never met the person next in seniority to Mrs. CPS, but based on hearsay, I understood they had fallen from the English pedestal into the Malayalam abyss, s...
- Sun Jun 22, 2025 4:29 pm
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 17. Scattered thoughts in my mind
- Replies: 51
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45. When the reins of Malayalam words are unleashed
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif In the early 1990s, while I was studying for my Pre-degree, I witnessed something worth mentioning. Back then, securing admission to MBBS or Engineering right after Pre-degree was considered the pinnacle of success, widely acknowledged by all. Students in Pre...
- Sun Jun 22, 2025 4:25 pm
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 17. Scattered thoughts in my mind
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- Views: 308
44. Human rights of government officials
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif It seems that CPS gained a new understanding of Travancore’s government procedures while in Alleppey. She arranged for cleaning the office premises and overgrown compound, as well as constructing some facilities in the client area. In Travancore, such actions...
- Sun Jun 22, 2025 4:21 pm
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 17. Scattered thoughts in my mind
- Replies: 51
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43. English Official Procedures
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif When discussing the reasons behind the collapse of the strike, a couple of points need to be addressed. Firstly, for many government officials, the bigger issue than not receiving their salary was likely the loss of income known by the euphemism "kimbala...
- Sun Jun 22, 2025 4:15 pm
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 17. Scattered thoughts in my mind
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42. That not even a single paisa will be increased
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif When Mrs. CPS first took charge of a Sub-Registrar office in Travancore, it was in Alleppey. From my conversations with CPS, I understood that it was in Alleppey that she realised government systems in Travancore were entirely different and utterly contrary t...
- Sun Jun 22, 2025 4:09 pm
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 17. Scattered thoughts in my mind
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41. About the piling up of blunders
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif The image above is of the first page of the Indian Registration Act of 1871 and the related Registration Manual. This Act is one of the many written legal frameworks that the English administration meticulously established in a subcontinent previously devoid ...
- Sun Jun 22, 2025 3:58 pm
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 17. Scattered thoughts in my mind
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40. Matters in Malabar
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif When I asked CPS, upon her retirement as Inspector General of Registration in 1982, about her basic monthly salary, she replied that she could not recall. I mentioned, based on my faint recollection, that the basic pay for an IG of Registration was 1300 rupee...
- Sun Jun 22, 2025 3:52 pm
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 17. Scattered thoughts in my mind
- Replies: 51
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39. Fearsome-sounding official titles
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif With the capital of the newly formed state, created by merging Malabar with Travancore, established far south in Trivandrum, it seemed that Malabar had largely become subservient to Travancore. I understand that for the economically advanced individuals and o...
- Sun Jun 22, 2025 3:47 pm
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 17. Scattered thoughts in my mind
- Replies: 51
- Views: 308
38. Various government positions
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif At this juncture, as my writing has reached this point, I think it fitting to mention a few additional matters pertinent to this context before proceeding further. The reason being, it seems unlikely that a more suitable occasion to address these will present...
- Sun Jun 22, 2025 1:04 pm
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 17. Scattered thoughts in my mind
- Replies: 51
- Views: 308
37. The officials left in the lurch by the English rule
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif Before continuing, let’s address a couple of points missed in the flow of this series. First, the character of police constables. In Travancore, police authority likely rested with Nairs. Though the lowest-ranking officers, they lived far above the common peo...
- Sun Jun 22, 2025 12:54 pm
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 17. Scattered thoughts in my mind
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36. Creating a governance system with high social equality
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif The English East India Company initially established three distinct Presidency regions in South Asia. Early on, administrative confusion and conflicts between British laws and local customary practices were common. For instance, the execution of an official n...
- Sun Jun 22, 2025 12:50 pm
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 17. Scattered thoughts in my mind
- Replies: 51
- Views: 308
35. Organized resistance and language codes
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif The irregularity in continuing this series stems from time constraints, causing a disruption in its flow. Additionally, the ongoing turmoil in Palestine often diverts my attention. The Palestine issue has lingered in my mind since the 1970s. Back then, our ho...
- Sun Jun 22, 2025 12:47 pm
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 17. Scattered thoughts in my mind
- Replies: 51
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34. A Police Act in British-India
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif Let’s briefly discuss the police systems in Kerala and modern India. While many evils can be attributed to the police, the core issue lies in feudal local languages. Eliminating these flawed languages could resolve many of India’s systemic problems. Even Engl...
- Sun Jun 22, 2025 12:43 pm
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 17. Scattered thoughts in my mind
- Replies: 51
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33. Reforms with only superficial changes
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif In pre-modern South Asia, the concept of “human” as understood today didn’t exist in social consciousness, perspectives, or communication. In Travancore, “people” likely referred only to upper castes. For Namboodiris, many under their sway weren’t fully human...
- Sun Jun 22, 2025 12:37 pm
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 17. Scattered thoughts in my mind
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32. The police system in Travancore
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif British-India was a nation that evolved gradually, formed by numerous small kingdoms united through various treaties. Each had its own social order enforcement systems, typically aligned with caste-based hierarchies. The English East India Company meticulousl...
- Sun Jun 22, 2025 12:17 pm
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 17. Scattered thoughts in my mind
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31. Police and custodial interrogation
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif Before diving into Travancore’s police system, a key point: many believe India’s current bureaucratic practices, conduct, and hierarchies stem from pre-1947 British-India. This is inaccurate. I’ll explore this deeper later. About 20 years ago, a sales tax off...
- Sun Jun 22, 2025 12:11 pm
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 17. Scattered thoughts in my mind
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30. History of ethnicity scrubbed out into oblivion
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif The English East India Company officials failed to truly understand South Asia’s people. They saw all human-like figures as humans, living across a spectrum of civilization and primitiveness. In South Asia, however, the prevailing belief was that those at the...
- Sun Jun 22, 2025 12:06 pm
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 17. Scattered thoughts in my mind
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29. Brutal officials in a brutal kingdom
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif The Mal Arayans lived in Travancore’s hilly regions, possibly migrants from elsewhere. Their sacred space was the Sabarimala temple atop the hills, with Ayyappan as their divine figure, believed to be as powerful as or equal to Hindu deities. Mal Arayans rare...
- Sun Jun 22, 2025 12:02 pm
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 17. Scattered thoughts in my mind
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28. The plight of the lower castes
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif The 1880s portrayal of Travancore’s official and police systems in Native Life in Travancore mirrors Kerala’s systems today, though it specifically describes Travancore. A key point: Travancore was not part of British-India but a kingdom under its protection....
- Sun Jun 22, 2025 11:57 am
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 17. Scattered thoughts in my mind
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27. A land’s stench can be traced through its laws
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif In the 1880s, Travancore had roughly 24 lakh people. Of these, Brahmins and self-claimed Kshatriyas totaled 39,887 (Brahmins: 38,434; Kshatriyas: 2,453). Ambalavasis and others numbered a few tens of thousands. Malayali Shudras, or Nairs, were 4,40,932. Below...
- Sun Jun 22, 2025 11:53 am
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 17. Scattered thoughts in my mind
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26. The clash of two vile cruelties
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif While discussing Travancore, the social conditions there likely mirrored those in most South Asian kingdoms. Rev. Samuel Mateer, commenting on the architectural marvels English officials admired in British-India and nearby kingdoms, writes: When looking with ...
- Sun Jun 22, 2025 11:47 am
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 17. Scattered thoughts in my mind
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25. The power of officials
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif Continuing with Travancore, I cite observations from Rev. Samuel Mateer’s Native Life in Travancore: The heads of the respective castes also paid an annual sum for their dignity. This means caste leaders, who kept their own people suppressed, supported the el...
- Sun Jun 22, 2025 11:36 am
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 17. Scattered thoughts in my mind
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- Views: 308
24. Watching the dance without knowing the story
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif Many intellectuals in Kerala today, and those believed to have shaped social consciousness since 1947, claim knowledge of struggles against English rule, the activities of communist movements in Kerala, and more. Through media and textbooks, trivial and isola...
- Sun Jun 22, 2025 11:32 am
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 17. Scattered thoughts in my mind
- Replies: 51
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23. Roots of official misconduct
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif When Travancore came into close contact with neighbouring British-India, it gradually adopted the administrative systems being established there. In essence, Travancore copied these systems. The Imperial Gazetteer of India Vol. XXIV describes Travancore’s adm...
- Sun Jun 22, 2025 11:24 am
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 17. Scattered thoughts in my mind
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22. On turning British-Malabaris into Keralites
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif Some fools or disruptive elements in British-Malabar may have attempted to link Malabar with Travancore, spreading Travancore’s language and culture to Malabar. They likely pointed to linguistic similarities and shared Hindu traditions to justify this connect...
- Sun Jun 22, 2025 11:20 am
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 17. Scattered thoughts in my mind
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21. Officialdom and police heritage in Travancore
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- Sat Jun 21, 2025 9:27 pm
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 17. Scattered thoughts in my mind
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- Views: 308
20. Comparing the official systems
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif When Malabar was annexed to Travancore in 1956, making fools of Malabar’s people, it seems neither ordinary individuals nor political leaders had much clarity about what was to come. What was Malabar about to lose? Many may have listed similarities between Ma...
- Sat Jun 21, 2025 9:16 pm
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 17. Scattered thoughts in my mind
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- Views: 308
19. The true nature of the royal family
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif The intention was to write about the competitive exams for government jobs. However, the path to that writing has stretched long. First, I’ll briefly address how, in Malabar, the word Ningal (stature-neutral you) became offensive when used with certain people...
- Sat Jun 21, 2025 9:06 pm
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 17. Scattered thoughts in my mind
- Replies: 51
- Views: 308
18. The offensive word - Ningal (stature neutral you in Malayalam)
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif Many people compete fiercely to secure government jobs. Consequently, such jobs are often described by many as a sort of unattainable prize. In this context, an observation is that in British-Malabar, Madras-Malabar, and even in Kerala-Malabar until around th...
- Sat Jun 21, 2025 5:23 pm
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 17. Scattered thoughts in my mind
- Replies: 51
- Views: 308
17. On the futility of educational qualifications
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif In the previous writing, I mentioned the futility of studying BA and MA in Malayalam. For instance, Political Science teaches many Western philosophical ideas. Most of these philosophies may border on absurdity. This is because they theorize social possibilit...
- Sat Jun 21, 2025 5:19 pm
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 17. Scattered thoughts in my mind
- Replies: 51
- Views: 308
16. The public examination system for government jobs
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif I’m now moving to the point I intended to discuss in the previous writing. It’s about the appointment of officials through a public examination conducted by a Public Service Commission. It seems that in British-India, the Indian Civil Service examination, alo...
- Sat Jun 21, 2025 5:14 pm
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 17. Scattered thoughts in my mind
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- Views: 308
15. The gems from antiquity
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif Scattered thoughts continue to swirl in my mind. One of the many things being pushed into public education today is the notion that ancient India possessed profound knowledge and wisdom. First, it must be said that before the advent of British-India, there do...
- Sat Jun 21, 2025 5:07 pm
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 17. Scattered thoughts in my mind
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14. To make the exalted a fool
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif Ordinarily, an IPS officer would not be demoted to a police constable overnight. However, in a feudal language society, private individuals can be shifted to different levels across various platforms. In other words, a person respected as highest him on one p...
- Sat Jun 21, 2025 4:52 pm
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 17. Scattered thoughts in my mind
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- Views: 308
13. Into the backstory of mental disorders
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif The English administration in South Asia undertook various efforts to understand the social environment and ethnic groups. In the early days, the diverse communities of South Asia were as incomprehensible to them as many other living creatures. One of the ini...
- Sat Jun 21, 2025 4:44 pm
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 17. Scattered thoughts in my mind
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12. The spider web of language and the train accident
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif This is not what I intended to write about now—that is, the railway accident that occurred two days ago. The Archaeological Department might claim, through observational studies, that trains existed in India 30,000 years ago and that they have discovered the ...
- Sat Jun 21, 2025 4:38 pm
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 17. Scattered thoughts in my mind
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- Views: 308
11. The condition of releasing toxic fumes
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif Around 1989, I first wrote extensively in English about the phenomenon of feudal language. Various efforts from multiple platforms were made to prevent that writing from reaching the public eye. I won’t delve into that now. However, around 2002, I published a...
- Sat Jun 21, 2025 4:33 pm
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 17. Scattered thoughts in my mind
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- Views: 308
10. On learning multiple languages
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif It cannot be said that the facial expressions of lowly people have a deformity. For, on the ladder of Inhi👇 - Ingal👆, both the exalted and the lowly may stand on the same rung. However, among those on the same rung, those who fall to the lower end may exhibit...
- Sat Jun 21, 2025 4:28 pm
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 17. Scattered thoughts in my mind
- Replies: 51
- Views: 308
9. To purify the wicked
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif The next in the scattered thoughts lingering in the mind. In feudal languages, the distinction between the exalted and the lowly exists everywhere. Yet, this is rarely seen as a significant issue. For it is an eternal truth and an immovable reality in society...
- Sat Jun 21, 2025 4:24 pm
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 17. Scattered thoughts in my mind
- Replies: 51
- Views: 308
8. To make a gentleman a warrior
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif Thoughts scattered in the mind continue to linger. From the perspective of feudal language, it appears that the English were a crowd of people ignorant of the ways of the world and utterly naive. It seems that the modicum of discernment and wisdom that existe...
- Fri Jun 20, 2025 5:09 pm
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 17. Scattered thoughts in my mind
- Replies: 51
- Views: 308
7. Upper class - lower class
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif Today, I plan to write some scattered thoughts. The first among these is the social concept of the upper class. At a glance, this concept seems to exist in every social environment. It is visible in England too. However, when England’s upper class interacts w...
- Fri Jun 20, 2025 5:05 pm
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 17. Scattered thoughts in my mind
- Replies: 51
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6. The land of cunning minds and beastly dispositions
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif Locally insignificant Indians go to English-speaking nations. There, they display remarkable abilities. People, both in India and from afar, loudly proclaim that Indians possess such great skill and talent. Indian online media constantly trumpet this fact. Ho...
- Fri Jun 20, 2025 5:00 pm
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 17. Scattered thoughts in my mind
- Replies: 51
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5. Convention and efficiency
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif This writing currently focuses on describing the inner coding of feudal languages. While addressing the Mappila Rebellion in South Malabar, I briefly began writing about the invisible yet immensely powerful coding in the local language of this region, which h...
- Fri Jun 20, 2025 4:53 pm
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 17. Scattered thoughts in my mind
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- Views: 308
4. Dual demeanour
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif Let me begin today’s writing by discussing the concept of kuthithiripp (backbiting) mentioned in the previous writing. In feudal languages, this is indeed a perennial phenomenon. While something similar can be done in English, the mental predisposition that n...
- Fri Jun 20, 2025 4:40 pm
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 17. Scattered thoughts in my mind
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3. The analogy of the beehive
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif Just as we observe an ant colony or a beehive today, English individuals should have viewed South Asian crowds in a similar way. However, they lacked the insight to do so. They encountered people in South Asia, Africa, the American continent, and even contine...
- Fri Jun 20, 2025 4:34 pm
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 17. Scattered thoughts in my mind
- Replies: 51
- Views: 308
2. What can be done from a distant background
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif The matter I am about to discuss was intended to be included in the previous writing but was omitted. An IPS officer, both in their professional domain and in private settings, remains an IPS officer. In other words, when this person is seated in their profes...
- Fri Jun 20, 2025 3:59 pm
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 17. Scattered thoughts in my mind
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- Views: 308
1. A matter which trivial English cannot achieve
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif https://victoria.org.in/img/books/g/74.jpg Look at this provided image. It is a painting from 1800 or thereabouts. You can see a servant serving food to Nair women. This person is likely a Nair individual as well. Nevertheless, the title of a servant of the s...
- Fri Jun 20, 2025 3:55 pm
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 17. Scattered thoughts in my mind
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- Views: 308
Contents
1. A matter which trivial English cannot achieve 2. What can be done from a distant background 3. The analogy of the beehive 4. Dual demeanour 5. Convention and efficiency 6. The land of cunning minds and beastly dispositions 7. Upper class - lower class 8. To make a gentleman a warrior 9. To purif...
- Fri Jun 20, 2025 3:55 pm
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 17. Scattered thoughts in my mind
- Replies: 51
- Views: 308
- Thu Jun 19, 2025 3:24 pm
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 16. Internal designs of feudal languages
- Replies: 51
- Views: 314
50. Those entitled to use disrespectful words
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif All the books I have written are available as PDF digital books. However, they were best suited for use on laptops or desktop computers, which was a limitation. A few weeks ago, I painstakingly developed the technical expertise to create versions that can be ...
- Thu Jun 19, 2025 3:20 pm
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 16. Internal designs of feudal languages
- Replies: 51
- Views: 314
49. On the need to nurture great heroes
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif I had decided not to weave history into the current trajectory of this writing, as it focuses on depicting the inner workings of local feudal languages. However, having written about the Nampoothiri-Nair social positions created by feudal languages, I intend ...
- Thu Jun 19, 2025 3:14 pm
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 16. Internal designs of feudal languages
- Replies: 51
- Views: 314
48. A mountain cannot be overturned
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif I was discussing the social atmosphere created by feudal languages and the bureaucratic system within such societies. The hallmark of this bureaucratic system is the dominance of elites like the Nampoothiris and the Nairs who stand beneath them. Clinging to t...
- Thu Jun 19, 2025 3:07 pm
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 16. Internal designs of feudal languages
- Replies: 51
- Views: 314
47. When the armed forces mutiny
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif The narrative concerns what would happen to the Nampoothiris (Hindus) and the temple-dwellers who stand with them if the Pariahs leave and the Nairs, collectively organised, go on strike for a while. With the advent of English rule in Malabar, the Nairs withd...
- Thu Jun 19, 2025 12:16 pm
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 16. Internal designs of feudal languages
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- Views: 314
46. Those who kept the Nampoothiris in check
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif I am currently writing about the fundamental structure of the officialdom naturally created by South Asian feudal languages. Those at the highest level first select some of their lowest subordinates and designate them as Shudras. These Shudra rank-holders gra...
- Thu Jun 19, 2025 12:09 pm
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 16. Internal designs of feudal languages
- Replies: 51
- Views: 314
45. Nampoothiri-Nayar official positions
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif It seems that Indian feudal languages share a particular type of coding. While not identical across all languages, broadly speaking, South Asian languages exhibit a similar pattern of hierarchy. In other words, if these languages are given free rein, they wil...
- Thu Jun 19, 2025 12:05 pm
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 16. Internal designs of feudal languages
- Replies: 51
- Views: 314
44. About the shipai officers
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif In British-Malabar, the government officialdom that the English administration sought to establish likely resembled the officialdom found in England. However, the sole fact that people in South Asia spoke feudal languages made it impossible to create an offic...
- Thu Jun 19, 2025 12:00 pm
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 16. Internal designs of feudal languages
- Replies: 51
- Views: 314
43. The zeal to become a Shudra
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif The focus here is Travancore, where the language was likely Tamil. Tamil is a profoundly feudal language. Speaking politely in Tamil often provokes condescension and mockery, stirring an urge to demean the speaker. Honouring the superior, enabling their domin...
- Thu Jun 19, 2025 11:53 am
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 16. Internal designs of feudal languages
- Replies: 51
- Views: 314
42. Shudra origins through feudal languages
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif This writing was deliberately delayed by a couple of days. The delay was due to drafting YouTube comments related to Cochin’s toxic gas issue and some vehicle accidents, along with sending their copies. This was done to avoid information overload. Today’s foc...
- Thu Jun 19, 2025 11:37 am
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 16. Internal designs of feudal languages
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41. The design codes of Indian government official system
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif It appears that rigid hierarchies were embedded in the languages of Malabar, Travancore, and most South Asian regions, shaping their social atmospheres. From this perspective, similarities likely existed between Travancore and British-Malabar in local social ...
- Thu Jun 19, 2025 11:32 am
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 16. Internal designs of feudal languages
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40. The claim of enlightenment for traditional fools
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif In British-Malabar, officials who rose to high government posts through English proficiency held a distinct view on corruption, starkly different from those in Travancore, the subsequent Travancore-Cochin state, and later South Kerala districts. Across South ...
- Thu Jun 19, 2025 11:20 am
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 16. Internal designs of feudal languages
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- Views: 314
39. On the binding nature of feudal languages
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif The writing now navigates through the inner dynamics of feudal languages. However, it seems to have slightly veered into history. I’m unsure how this happened. The aim is to view Travancore and British-Malabar as distinct regions and outline their differences...
- Thu Jun 19, 2025 11:16 am
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 16. Internal designs of feudal languages
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38. The annexation of Malabar
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif With the formation of Kerala on November 1, 1956, Malabar’s stature plummeted sharply. The new state’s capital was Trivandrum. From there, Malabar seemed like a remote corner at the edge of the world, where people couldn’t even speak Malayalam properly. The s...
- Thu Jun 19, 2025 11:01 am
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 16. Internal designs of feudal languages
- Replies: 51
- Views: 314
37. On addressing officials by name in British-Malabar
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif The requirement in Malabari and Malayalam to append a respectful word after a person’s name is also mandatory in Hindi and other South Asian languages, though Hindi is somewhat simpler. In Travancore, an official is Saar, and a common person is Ningal. Howeve...
- Thu Jun 19, 2025 11:01 am
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 16. Internal designs of feudal languages
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36. On addressing officials by name
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif In feudal languages, whenever someone speaks to another, the word You lingers in the background, ready to oscillate between Ingal and Inhi variants. Similarly, an awareness persists that He/She, His/Her, and His/Hers words are poised to shift, altering numero...
- Thu Jun 19, 2025 10:51 am
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 16. Internal designs of feudal languages
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- Views: 314
35. Communication with officials in Malabar
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif The present-day state of Kerala is, in reality, a region formed by the amalgamation of two distinct historical traditions. One is British-Malabar, and the other is the Travancore kingdom. Though the Cochin kingdom existed between them, for the purposes of thi...
- Thu Jun 19, 2025 10:47 am
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 16. Internal designs of feudal languages
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34. The social structure in languages
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif Each language creates distinct social, administrative, and other systems. This holds true for English as well. However, since continental Europeans established their royal and noble families in England, the English language had to incorporate a few newly craf...
- Thu Jun 19, 2025 10:41 am
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 16. Internal designs of feudal languages
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- Views: 314
33. Being crushed under the weight of words
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif In local feudal languages, individuals show the greatest obedience when they are successfully demeaned. From an English perspective, this is utterly unimaginable. Readers may have observed this themselves. Consider a private doctor who employs someone of low ...
- Thu Jun 19, 2025 10:38 am
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 16. Internal designs of feudal languages
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32. The necessity of superior-in-hierarchy adornments
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif I am writing about managing men and women through local feudal languages. This topic requires delving into multiple aspects. As I begin writing, I haven’t charted a clear path in my mind. Let’s see what ideas flow into this path as I write. In England, associ...
- Thu Jun 19, 2025 10:33 am
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- Topic: 16. Internal designs of feudal languages
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31. Indian management
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif In the 1990s, the phenomenon of BPO (Business Process Outsourcing) entered India. This was facilitated by the magical web of the internet. Before that, England, the USA, and other such places were, for most Indians, as distant as Mars is today. Subsequently, ...
- Thu Jun 19, 2025 9:14 am
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 16. Internal designs of feudal languages
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- Views: 314
30. The terrifying concept of equality
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif Today, I intend to discuss a few points about the concept of equality. It seems that, in the past, the word “equality” did not hold much relevance for discussion among the English. Yet, equality did not exist in England’s social environment either. There, you...
- Thu Jun 19, 2025 9:10 am
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 16. Internal designs of feudal languages
- Replies: 51
- Views: 314
29. The fault lies not in individuals
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif In 1982, as mentioned in the previous writing, I addressed some doctors, colleagues of my sister, as “you” [Ningal] at home. Looking back, I now understand that being the brother of a doctor created the context for addressing those doctors with equality using...
- Thu Jun 19, 2025 8:59 am
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 16. Internal designs of feudal languages
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- Views: 314
28. The language coding of outbursts
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif After completing my graduation (BSc degree) in Trivandrum in 1982, until around 2002, I had the opportunity to engage in various activities across different parts of the country. During this time, I closely interacted with people from diverse social strata an...
- Wed Jun 18, 2025 6:10 pm
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 16. Internal designs of feudal languages
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- Views: 314
27. Mental maturity in feudal languages
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif In Malayalam, the word pakvata (maturity) exists, often linked to advanced age. In English, it seems to align with mature. However, mature in English and pakvata in Malayalam share only a superficial resemblance. At a glance, they appear similar, but that’s w...
- Wed Jun 18, 2025 6:05 pm
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 16. Internal designs of feudal languages
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- Views: 314
26. Mapping mental stresses through word codes
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif This 16th volume attempts to examine the design patterns of hidden interpersonal relationship links within the communication machinery of feudal languages. Some points here may echo or expand on ideas briefly mentioned in the first volume. In this volume, the...
- Wed Jun 18, 2025 6:00 pm
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 16. Internal designs of feudal languages
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- Views: 314
25. On the emergence of mental insecurity
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif In feudal languages, a person’s assets—wealth, knowledge, connections with high-status individuals, authority, physical stature, strength, courage, or skill—profoundly influence word codes. This significantly impacts the minds of feudal language speakers. The...
- Wed Jun 18, 2025 5:56 pm
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 16. Internal designs of feudal languages
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- Views: 314
24. Honorific word as an offering
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif In an English-only social environment, individuals strive to erase hierarchies in words. In feudal language settings, it’s the opposite. Here, every person observes another’s words, actions, and tone for precise subservience or dominance. Those below must sho...
- Wed Jun 18, 2025 5:47 pm
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 16. Internal designs of feudal languages
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23. The vector component
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif The intent was to discuss what happens in a social setting when individuals reach a teaching position, but the previous writing veered off course. Now, the focus is on the positional shifts in intricate software codes when individuals move from one word-tent ...
- Wed Jun 18, 2025 5:43 pm
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 16. Internal designs of feudal languages
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- Views: 314
22. Tents and palatial structures
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif In the previous writing, I discussed the profound mental, physical, and personal transformations when an ordinary person in a feudal language becomes a teacher. From an English perspective, it’s like stepping into an astonishing leadership role. This involves...
- Wed Jun 18, 2025 5:40 pm
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 16. Internal designs of feudal languages
- Replies: 51
- Views: 314
21. The phenomenon of aura
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif Feudal language words can create a distinct phenomenon in the human mind and body. This can only be understood through direct experience, revealing its mental and physical reality. In English, the word aura exists, but it seems to be understood merely as a ph...
- Wed Jun 18, 2025 5:34 pm
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 16. Internal designs of feudal languages
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- Views: 314
20. The phenomenon of destitution
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif The true face of poverty in India today may not be as starkly visible in Kerala as it once was. About 20 years ago, in a northern Indian region, a middle-class individual remarked with surprise: In Kerala, every household has at least one person working abroa...
- Wed Jun 18, 2025 4:43 pm
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 16. Internal designs of feudal languages
- Replies: 51
- Views: 314
19. Word codes flipped 180°
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif The strength of social and personal relationships in the English language is directly opposite to the strength maintained through feudal languages. In English, there is no significant hierarchy in linguistic terms between individuals within any organisation. ...
- Wed Jun 18, 2025 2:34 pm
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 16. Internal designs of feudal languages
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18. If Animals were granted technological prowess
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif Image The image, dated 1961, depicts a white-skinned individual wearing a hat, identified as Michael Rockefeller. It is understood that he was later consumed by the tribal people shown in the image. It is a fact that many animals possess abilities beyond huma...
- Wed Jun 18, 2025 2:27 pm
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 16. Internal designs of feudal languages
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- Views: 314
17. The impulse to forget one’s origins
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif In feudal languages, expressions about gratitude (nanni or nandi in Malayalam) are commonly found. Phrases such as: “Do not forget the path you came from.” “Do not anoint your head, forgetting your roots.” “Be grateful for the food you eat.” and many similar ...
- Wed Jun 18, 2025 2:19 pm
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 16. Internal designs of feudal languages
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- Views: 314
16. The feeling that clamour should be controlled with clamour itself
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif Hiuen Tsang, a Chinese traveller and scholar, while journeying through South Asia in the seventh century, recorded his observations and experiences, including the following: The people are accustomed to a life of ease and prosperity and they like to sing. How...
- Wed Jun 18, 2025 2:12 pm
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 16. Internal designs of feudal languages
- Replies: 51
- Views: 314
15. The transformation in demeanor upon becoming an official
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif I have mentioned this matter earlier in this work. A promise made by someone with a subservient demeanor to a respected person carries immense value. Moreover, such a person strictly adheres to punctuality when dealing with the respected individual. However, ...
- Wed Jun 18, 2025 1:48 pm
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 16. Internal designs of feudal languages
- Replies: 51
- Views: 314
14. Gathering subordinates to rise to the heights
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif In a feudal language environment, individuals constantly strive to stand above others. There exists a group known as the “common man” in feudal language regions. This phenomenon of the common man is often not a specifically defined position in today’s society...
- Wed Jun 18, 2025 1:44 pm
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 16. Internal designs of feudal languages
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- Views: 314
13. The cunning codes in communication
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif It seems that among the English, both in earlier times and to some extent even now, the concept of entrepreneurship was viewed in a rather limited way. In India, however, the situation is quite the opposite. For any worker in a private enterprise, the constan...
- Wed Jun 18, 2025 1:34 pm
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 16. Internal designs of feudal languages
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- Views: 314
12. Highest 'his' son versus lowest 'his' son
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif The narrative must now return to the Mappila riots that began to flare up in the two taluks of South Malabar from around the 1850s. However, having started writing about the subversive codes embedded in South Asian languages, I feel compelled to continue. As ...
- Wed Jun 18, 2025 1:30 pm
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 16. Internal designs of feudal languages
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- Views: 314
11. The battlefield created by language codes
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif The feudal linguistic social atmosphere is, in reality, a constant and perpetual battlefield. However, this is often very subtle, obscure, cryptic, and difficult to describe. The reason why a person of lower status attempts—or has attempted—to undermine or ov...
- Wed Jun 18, 2025 12:07 pm
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- Topic: 16. Internal designs of feudal languages
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10. Acquiring dominance through verbal codes
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif I have already mentioned the hierarchical codes that radiate through the eyes, touch, words, tone, and other means of those who speak feudal languages. This may be a complex, powerful, and intricate social and personal phenomenon. Ordinarily, an individual li...
- Wed Jun 18, 2025 12:01 pm
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 16. Internal designs of feudal languages
- Replies: 51
- Views: 314
9. The value that must be preserved in words
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif I had intended to discuss a major twist related to the Inhi👇 - Ningal👆 ladder, but some other aspects of the local language culture have come to mind. I think it’s worth adding these as well, as there may not be another opportunity in this writing’s path to a...
- Wed Jun 18, 2025 11:58 am
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 16. Internal designs of feudal languages
- Replies: 51
- Views: 314
8. Inhi👇 - Ningal👆 ladders that point to opposite directions
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif On the Inhi👇 - Ningal👆 ladder, individuals often have a clearly defined position. This position is indelibly fused into their physical personality, mental disposition, thought patterns, words, gaze, touch, and more, in a way that is difficult to erase or conc...
- Wed Jun 18, 2025 11:51 am
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 16. Internal designs of feudal languages
- Replies: 51
- Views: 314
7. The gap between principle and actuality
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif When South Asians migrated to English-speaking nations, the Inhi👇 - Ningal👆 ladder present within them naturally began to fade slowly, especially in earlier times. This could be a significant reason for the gradual changes in their demeanor and the positive p...
- Wed Jun 18, 2025 11:47 am
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 16. Internal designs of feudal languages
- Replies: 51
- Views: 314
6. Mental illness spreading through the ladder
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif Every distinct Inhi👇 - Ningal👆 ladder has a downward flow, smooth as silk. This downward flow is akin to the film songs written by Vayalar Ramavarma and others for Malayalam cinema. In this flow, one can find the beauty, rhythm, melody, and elegance of great ...
- Wed Jun 18, 2025 11:41 am
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 16. Internal designs of feudal languages
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5. Subtle social scenes created by the Inhi - Ningal ladder
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif I had intended to write about a major twist related to the Inhi👇 - Ningal👆 ladder, but before that, I think it’s worth mentioning a few more things. Every individual living on the different steps of this ladder has a distinct numerical value position. This po...
- Wed Jun 18, 2025 11:35 am
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 16. Internal designs of feudal languages
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4. Marital bonds and the Inhi - Ningal ladder
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif The reality is that there exists an invisible yet immensely powerful presence of word codes that exerts significant physical influence and coercion in various ways on everyone. This is evident in South Asian social communication, personal relationships, famil...
- Wed Jun 18, 2025 11:27 am
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 16. Internal designs of feudal languages
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- Views: 314
3. Great men and those who are not great men
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif Let me tell you about another social matter. Inhi👇 - Ningal👆 Each step on the ladder is at a specific height. When a person, without displaying any social status or distinctions, as is common in English, engages in communication or friendly conversation with ...
- Wed Jun 18, 2025 5:02 am
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- Topic: Books - PDF
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- Tue Jun 17, 2025 6:26 pm
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 16. Internal designs of feudal languages
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2. Inhi👇 - Ingal👆 ladders
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif Examine the hierarchical system in the Kerala Police. A1. DGP A2. IG A3. DIG A4. SP A5. ASP B1. SP (non-IPS) B2. DySP B3. CI B4. SI C1. SI (Promoted) C2. ASI C3. Head Constable / Senior Civil Police Officer C4. Constable / Civil Police Officer The hierarchy l...
- Tue Jun 17, 2025 6:05 pm
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- Topic: 16. Internal designs of feudal languages
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1. At steep heights and in deep pits
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif The discussion is about a particular type of social design hidden within the languages of the South Asian subcontinent. This matter needs to be addressed very clearly. Only then can one understand a key factor that led to the Mappila Rebellion. The English Ea...
- Tue Jun 17, 2025 6:01 pm
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 16. Internal designs of feudal languages
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Contents
1. At steep heights and in deep pits 2. Inhi👇 - Ingal👆 ladders 3. Great men and those who are not great men 4. Marital bonds and the Inhi - Ningal ladder 5. Subtle social scenes created by the Inhi - Ningal ladder 6. Mental illness spreading through the ladder 7. The gap between principle and actua...
- Tue Jun 17, 2025 6:01 pm
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 16. Internal designs of feudal languages
- Replies: 51
- Views: 314
- Mon Jun 16, 2025 10:46 am
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 15. When looking broadly at the Mappila Rebellion
- Replies: 51
- Views: 433
50. Social complexities behind the Mappila Rebellion
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif This chapter was meant to conclude the discussion on the Mappila Rebellion, but it feels like peering through the James Webb Telescope into the universe. Each point of focus reveals deeper, expanding layers. Thus, the hope of wrapping up the historical backdr...
- Mon Jun 16, 2025 10:40 am
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 15. When looking broadly at the Mappila Rebellion
- Replies: 51
- Views: 433
49. The bewilderment of the traditional elite Mappilas
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif This writing attempts to continue. It feels as though hundreds of thoughts are jostling in my mind, rushing to spill out. The narrative paused while describing the social context of the so-called Mappila Rebellion that erupted around 1921 in two small taluks ...
- Mon Jun 16, 2025 10:36 am
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 15. When looking broadly at the Mappila Rebellion
- Replies: 51
- Views: 433
48. Initiating numerous welfare state projects despite various oppositions
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif In today’s new nation of India, there are reportedly around 2.4 lakh panchayats and 6.5 lakh villages. It’s unclear how many panchayats and villages existed in British-India. Before English rule, rural life and village governance were entirely isolated. Peopl...
- Mon Jun 16, 2025 10:32 am
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 15. When looking broadly at the Mappila Rebellion
- Replies: 51
- Views: 433
47. A great wall against value degradation
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif The government systems in Manantoddy were, in fact, established across most districts in British-India. At the apex of these systems were a few officers of the ICS, or Indian Civil Service (also known as the Imperial Civil Service). Initially, most of these o...
- Mon Jun 16, 2025 10:27 am
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 15. When looking broadly at the Mappila Rebellion
- Replies: 51
- Views: 433
46. The beginning of the end to the daily miseries faced by the people
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif The beginning of the end to the daily miseries faced by the people It appears that those who claim to love this nation today assert that vast administrative systems existed across this subcontinent during and before the time of Lord Rama, who ruled in the sma...
- Mon Jun 16, 2025 10:23 am
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 15. When looking broadly at the Mappila Rebellion
- Replies: 51
- Views: 433
45. List of educational initiatives launched by the English East India Company in British-India
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif List of educational initiatives launched by the English East India Company in British-India Though Malabar was then known as British-Malabar, not all its regions had acquired an English character. It seems that Tellicherry’s people experienced the greatest in...
- Mon Jun 16, 2025 10:18 am
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 15. When looking broadly at the Mappila Rebellion
- Replies: 51
- Views: 433
44. Great things brought by English rule to British-India
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif The narrative has now reached the point of discussing the violent acts by lower-class Mappilas in two taluks of South Malabar around the 1850s. It has been mentioned that a few individuals, under an Islamic banner and armed with knives, set out at night to ki...
- Mon Jun 16, 2025 10:13 am
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 15. When looking broadly at the Mappila Rebellion
- Replies: 51
- Views: 433
43. The nature of commercial movements aligns with the linguistic culture of the people
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif Even after 150 years of English rule, no progress was made in India. They failed to eradicate poverty. This is how many scholars today evaluate English rule. The notion that a ruler can simply will away a nation’s poverty, behaviour, culture, and commercial a...
- Mon Jun 16, 2025 10:10 am
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 15. When looking broadly at the Mappila Rebellion
- Replies: 51
- Views: 433
42. Respect that fades when the others improve in knowledge
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif From the perspective of the English, the social atmosphere in South Asia was utterly peculiar. This remains true even today. It’s impossible to fully describe the design of this social atmosphere now. But one aspect can be highlighted. The Sanskrit language, ...
- Mon Jun 16, 2025 8:47 am
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 15. When looking broadly at the Mappila Rebellion
- Replies: 51
- Views: 433
41. On receiving high-level mental training
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif When the English East India Company united approximately 2,000 small regions in South Asia to forge a vast nation, it initiated numerous monumental undertakings that no one in this subcontinent had previously accomplished. One such endeavour was the Survey of...
- Mon Jun 16, 2025 8:39 am
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 15. When looking broadly at the Mappila Rebellion
- Replies: 51
- Views: 433
40. The resurgence of the eradicated extortion system
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif The small kingdoms surrendered their territories and authority to the English East India Company, likely because they recognized that this company was led by a distinctly different kind of people. Local royal families may have assessed the company’s officials...
- Mon Jun 16, 2025 8:31 am
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 15. When looking broadly at the Mappila Rebellion
- Replies: 51
- Views: 433
39. When nobles become destitute, a language system that prevents even stepping out of the house
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif Not only in British-India but across much of South Asia, a similar social mindset and societal structure likely prevailed. This consisted of a prominent family in each region, with layers of people beneath them, each ranked according to their respective statu...
- Mon Jun 16, 2025 8:26 am
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 15. When looking broadly at the Mappila Rebellion
- Replies: 51
- Views: 433
38. Brutality standing at opposite corners
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif When discussing the lower-class Mappila attacks that occurred from 1836 within a 15-mile radius of the Panthallur hills in two taluks of South Malabar, it would be helpful to visualise the region of Malabar District and the nation of British-India. In the 183...
- Mon Jun 16, 2025 8:20 am
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 15. When looking broadly at the Mappila Rebellion
- Replies: 51
- Views: 433
37. Serious errors and limitations prevailing in England
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif It is indeed very difficult for other people and nations to understand the English and England. Individuals in a feudal linguistic social environment constantly exist in a peculiar state, bouncing and slipping within a three-dimensional social expanse. Such a...
- Mon Jun 16, 2025 5:33 am
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 15. When looking broadly at the Mappila Rebellion
- Replies: 51
- Views: 433
36. Those who witnessed their traditional spiritual movement being stolen
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif QUOTE The students at the college are supported by the Ponnani towns people, the custom being to quarter two students in each house. The students study in the public or Jammat or (as it is sometimes called) Friday Mosque, and in their undergraduate stage they...
- Mon Jun 16, 2025 5:16 am
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 15. When looking broadly at the Mappila Rebellion
- Replies: 51
- Views: 433
35. Experiences incompatible with a new personality
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif It may be true that in South Malabar, Islam functioned as a powerful instrument of social reform. A similar social reform was attempted by the English language and the English Company administration. However, observe the tangled threads—even at the grassroots...
- Mon Jun 16, 2025 5:07 am
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 15. When looking broadly at the Mappila Rebellion
- Replies: 51
- Views: 433
34. Discovery that officials gain social power
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif In 1851, after a period in which Collector H. V. Conolly had deliberately tried to increase the number of Muslims in the public services, This would not have been a social phenomenon in England. This is because the local language fosters a perception that a g...
- Mon Jun 16, 2025 5:03 am
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 15. When looking broadly at the Mappila Rebellion
- Replies: 51
- Views: 433
33. Language determines social structure and communication pathways
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif The social structure and pathways of social communication are determined by the local feudal language, rather than Islam having any significant role in deciding this matter. Adding significant personality to the lower strata is perceived, through the lens of ...
- Mon Jun 16, 2025 4:57 am
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 15. When looking broadly at the Mappila Rebellion
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32. Slavery eradicated in a land interested in maintaining it
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif As the English Company officials gradually established administrative structures in the Malabar regions, they had to confront various hidden issues within the local societies. While it is true that today’s formal Indian history defines that era as a period of...
- Mon Jun 16, 2025 4:44 am
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 15. When looking broadly at the Mappila Rebellion
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31. Slavery in an English language environment
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif Before proceeding with the writing, I will provide some images related to the Negro slavery that prevailed for approximately 75 years, about two centuries ago, in the present-day US regions. Although the English language was widely prevalent in the US regions...
- Mon Jun 16, 2025 4:37 am
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 15. When looking broadly at the Mappila Rebellion
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30. Slavery without any influence of the English language
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif It would be quite difficult for people today to imagine the nature of the slavery that the English East India Company encountered in the Malabar regions. Many have likely formed highly inaccurate perceptions of slavery based on the stories and images of the s...
- Mon Jun 16, 2025 4:32 am
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 15. When looking broadly at the Mappila Rebellion
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29. A measure implemented without any profit motive
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif Before the Indian Slavery Act of 1843 was passed as a legal framework in British India, a law prohibiting slavery had already been enacted in Britain in 1833, known as the Slavery Abolition Act (1833), applicable across the far-flung English empire. It can be...
- Mon Jun 16, 2025 4:27 am
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 15. When looking broadly at the Mappila Rebellion
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28. Something more terrifying than a social upheaval
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif When the Indian Slavery Act of 1843 was passed as a legal framework in British India, it likely caused immense anxiety, distress, and panic among the social elite. In Malabar, such a move was, in reality, not something that could be easily accomplished by any...
- Mon Jun 16, 2025 4:19 am
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 15. When looking broadly at the Mappila Rebellion
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27. A social reality that may seem intolerable
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif On 7 January 1839, the Malabar District Collector sent a letter in response to the instructions given in a letter dated 17 August 1838 from the Director Board of the English East India Company. (Details of the Director Board’s letter were provided in the prev...
- Mon Jun 16, 2025 4:13 am
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 15. When looking broadly at the Mappila Rebellion
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26. The truth no one is interested in telling
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif Searching online for slavery might frequently bring up the words British or Britain in the results. Phrases like Slavery in British India, Abolishing of Slavery in the British Empire, Slavery in British West Africa, and Slavery in the USA are scattered across...
- Sun Jun 15, 2025 4:59 pm
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 15. When looking broadly at the Mappila Rebellion
- Replies: 51
- Views: 433
25. Evil local customs and practices with no paths for reform
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif When studying the Mappila attacks in South Malabar during the 1800s, it is necessary to examine other social issues faced by the English Company administration in the Malabar region. The English Company sought to implement significant reforms to address many ...
- Sun Jun 15, 2025 4:56 pm
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 15. When looking broadly at the Mappila Rebellion
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24. A social reform that led society to an explosion
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif Before proceeding, let us detail a lower-class Mappila attack from 1851. Readers should keep two points in mind before reading this account. First, though it may seem like an Islamic attack, in reality, it was a societal explosion caused by a mental uplift am...
- Sun Jun 15, 2025 4:51 pm
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 15. When looking broadly at the Mappila Rebellion
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23. On inadvertently aligning with the Brahmin faction’s motives and actions
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif To understand how perspectives shifted, consider this: in the 1970s, if India attacked Pakistan, the U.S. would deploy its navy and other forces at its own expense to protect Pakistan. Today, if India attacked Pakistan, many in the U.S. would rejoice. This me...
- Sun Jun 15, 2025 4:46 pm
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 15. When looking broadly at the Mappila Rebellion
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22. On bearing the weight of a boulder through mere words
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif It is understood that English Company officers living in South Asia with their wives and children faced the same linguistic issues as elite Arab families from Arabia residing in Malabar’s coastal regions. However, English officers often did not grasp the core...
- Sun Jun 15, 2025 4:35 pm
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 15. When looking broadly at the Mappila Rebellion
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21. Viewing local elites in two distinct ways
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif English officers in the English East India Company likely perceived the local elites working at high levels within the Company’s administration in various ways. Two distinct perspectives can be mentioned here. The first might be that these high-ranking indivi...
- Sun Jun 15, 2025 4:30 pm
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 15. When looking broadly at the Mappila Rebellion
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20. Matters differing from the mindset of the English administration
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif To address and control the lower-class Mappila violence in South Malabar, District Collector Conolly, an Englishman, likely preferred deploying a force of British citizen soldiers. Several reasons may have contributed to this preference. One could be the brut...
- Sun Jun 15, 2025 4:26 pm
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 15. When looking broadly at the Mappila Rebellion
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19. The character of a great rogue
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif When between 10,000 and 12,000 lower-class Mappilas gathered at Tirurangadi, one can imagine the alarm, anxiety, intense fear, and confusion that must have arisen among other groups present. It should also be noted that a significant percentage of those gathe...
- Sun Jun 15, 2025 4:20 pm
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 15. When looking broadly at the Mappila Rebellion
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18. The diverse Mappilas of Malabar and varying perspectives about them
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif Individuals within the English Company’s administration held differing opinions about the Mappilas of Malabar. The reason for this variation lies in the fact that Malabar was home to distinct types of Muslims. The Mappilas of Valluvanad and Eranad in South Ma...
- Sun Jun 15, 2025 4:09 pm
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 15. When looking broadly at the Mappila Rebellion
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- Views: 433
17. Through the perspective of the elite of that time
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif Let us now briefly examine matters through the perspective of the elite in that society. The Brahmin community, or rather the Namboodiris, were akin to today’s IAS and IPS officers. Some among them, it is noted, had long ago converted from the Mukkava communi...
- Sun Jun 15, 2025 1:34 pm
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 15. When looking broadly at the Mappila Rebellion
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- Views: 433
16. A language that fosters invisible mental conflicts like a web of moss
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif The English Company officials seriously contemplated how to eradicate the communal animosity that persisted like an enigma in South Malabar. This issue must be understood differently from how modern Indian officials might approach a social calamity in India. ...
- Sun Jun 15, 2025 1:28 pm
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 15. When looking broadly at the Mappila Rebellion
- Replies: 51
- Views: 433
15. Those who rush forward, conflating rage with religious fervour
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif The Mappila attacks in the 1830s exhibited distinct characteristics. One notable trait was that these attackers were unwilling to be captured alive or to surrender. Several reasons may account for this behaviour. However, what stands out here is the historica...
- Sun Jun 15, 2025 1:22 pm
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 15. When looking broadly at the Mappila Rebellion
- Replies: 51
- Views: 433
14. The mindset of "We are the protectors of Islam"
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif The English administration could not overhaul the social fabric of South Malabar and move forward. Land was held by landlords, much of which was leased out. Among those who leased this land were not only Nairs and Thiyyas but also wealthy Mappila individuals,...
- Sun Jun 15, 2025 1:18 pm
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 15. When looking broadly at the Mappila Rebellion
- Replies: 51
- Views: 433
13. A mindset that persisted like a disease
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif With the end of Mysore rule, for some time, the English Company and local kings jointly governed both North and South Malabar as partners. As mentioned earlier, the English Company officials faced a significant challenge in two taluks of South Malabar. During...
- Sun Jun 15, 2025 1:13 pm
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 15. When looking broadly at the Mappila Rebellion
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12. The backdrop of Hindu-Mappila communal tensions
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif The backdrop of today’s Hindu-Mappila communal tensions is as follows: From those who were entirely enslaved under the old Hindu (Brahmin) order to both makkathayam (patrilineal) and marumakkathayam (matrilineal) Thiyyas, many began shifting away from their t...
- Sun Jun 15, 2025 12:40 pm
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 15. When looking broadly at the Mappila Rebellion
- Replies: 51
- Views: 433
11. Within a 15-mile radius of Pandalur Hill
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif In South Malabar, the Mappila attacks on the Brahmin side were distinctly confined to two specific taluks: Ernad and Valluvanad. To be more precise, these attacks occurred within a 15-mile radius of Pandalur Hill. Only one or two incidents took place outside ...
- Sun Jun 15, 2025 12:34 pm
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 15. When looking broadly at the Mappila Rebellion
- Replies: 51
- Views: 433
10. Confrontations through degrading verbal codes
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif I am currently reading The Moplah Rebellion and Its Genesis, a research thesis written by Conrad Wood, a left-leaning social scientist from England, published in 1987. While Wood appears to blame "British colonialism" when discussing the Mappila Reb...
- Sun Jun 15, 2025 12:25 pm
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 15. When looking broadly at the Mappila Rebellion
- Replies: 51
- Views: 433
9. Indication of an intolerable tyrannical rule
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif From approximately 1836 to 1854, I have gathered from the Malabar Manual that around 29 Mappila attacks occurred in Malabar, primarily in South Malabar. Some incidents also took place after 1854. It does not appear that any of the 29 attacks I have listed wer...
- Sun Jun 15, 2025 12:18 pm
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 15. When looking broadly at the Mappila Rebellion
- Replies: 51
- Views: 433
8. The English Company and its direct administration
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif There is a tendency among some thesis writers and formal historians to use terms like "colonial administration" or "British colonial rule" when referring to the English administration in South Asia, unnecessarily misleading readers. (It sh...
- Sun Jun 15, 2025 12:14 pm
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 15. When looking broadly at the Mappila Rebellion
- Replies: 51
- Views: 433
7. Insights from contradictory pieces of information
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif In South Malabar, many lower-class individuals converted to Islam and progressed significantly, both socially and personally. The political environment enabling this transformation was provided by the English administration in Malabar. However, it does not se...
- Sun Jun 15, 2025 12:02 pm
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 15. When looking broadly at the Mappila Rebellion
- Replies: 51
- Views: 433
6. Explosive social mechanisms in society
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif In a certain region, there are a number of small-scale workers. They perform household tasks in the homes of many wealthy individuals, earning meager wages. The homeowners view them as filth, not allowing them to sit on chairs and requiring them to eat on the...
- Sun Jun 15, 2025 11:55 am
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 15. When looking broadly at the Mappila Rebellion
- Replies: 51
- Views: 433
5. If one could point out a common enemy
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif It is often said that Islam views kafirs as enemies. In ancient times, there may have been a general understanding among people that enemies should be killed. If the Quran records an opposition to kafirs, I am unaware of the context or circumstances in which ...
- Sun Jun 15, 2025 11:49 am
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 15. When looking broadly at the Mappila Rebellion
- Replies: 51
- Views: 433
4. Hindus and Muslims then
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif From around the 1830s, there seems to have been a persistent state of confrontation in South Malabar between certain groups of Mappilas and some members of the Brahmin faction. Before delving deeper into this matter, it is necessary to clearly define the comm...
- Sun Jun 15, 2025 11:41 am
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 15. When looking broadly at the Mappila Rebellion
- Replies: 51
- Views: 433
3. Back to the flow of writing
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif It seems the last piece was posted in May 2021. Today is 18ᵗʰ November. The topic being written about then was the historical event known as the Mappila Rebellion in South Malabar. At that time, ideas flowed into my mind like a stream. But now, looking within...
- Sun Jun 15, 2025 11:32 am
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 15. When looking broadly at the Mappila Rebellion
- Replies: 51
- Views: 433
2. Pledging allegiance to Hindi imperialism being defined as freedom
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif When reflecting on the violent acts of Mappila or Muhammadan lower-class individuals, it becomes necessary to consider social and political revolutions. Let’s think about the freedom struggle of Palestinians today. It seems their language is Arabic. It appear...
- Sun Jun 15, 2025 11:21 am
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 15. When looking broadly at the Mappila Rebellion
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- Views: 433
1. About those who had to hold the middle ground while setting both sides ablaze
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif In India, historical writing today is centred on the nation-state of India as it exists now. In this way, anything can be written relatively. For example, with the notion that we are sitting at the centre of the universe, we can measure and interpret the move...
- Sat Jun 14, 2025 7:39 pm
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 15. When looking broadly at the Mappila Rebellion
- Replies: 51
- Views: 433
Contents
1. About those who held the middle ground while setting both sides ablaze 2. Pledging allegiance to Hindi imperialism being defined as freedom 3. Back to the flow of the writing 4. Hindus and Muslims then 5. If one could point out a common enemy 6. Explosive social mechanisms in society 7. Insights...
- Sat Jun 14, 2025 7:39 pm
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 15. When looking broadly at the Mappila Rebellion
- Replies: 51
- Views: 433
- Sat Jun 14, 2025 1:16 am
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 14. About the Mappillas of Malabar
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- Views: 532
50. The futility of social reform through revolutionary zeal
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif Society is undergoing unprecedented upheaval and fragmentation. Two distinct invasions by Mysoreans seemed to have uprooted those at the social bottom, giving the impression of lifting them upward. However, Mysore rule did not last long. Their local officials...
- Sat Jun 14, 2025 1:11 am
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 14. About the Mappillas of Malabar
- Replies: 51
- Views: 532
49. The rise of a feudal language Islam in society
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif Highly informed individuals who view Hindi imperialism in South Asia as a grand national consciousness often portray the Mappila outbreaks in Malabar as reactions to English rule and part of a national freedom struggle. However, in the 1800s, it’s unlikely th...
- Sat Jun 14, 2025 1:07 am
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 14. About the Mappillas of Malabar
- Replies: 51
- Views: 532
48. Flaws in the assessments of the highly informed
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif For thousands of years, various communities have ruled different parts of South Asia in diverse ways. Remember, there was no India back then. Today, formal histories divide the past into ancient India, medieval India, and modern India for study purposes. Whil...
- Sat Jun 14, 2025 1:03 am
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 14. About the Mappillas of Malabar
- Replies: 51
- Views: 532
47. Historical study without regard for social realities
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif I have come across some writings by Muhammadan scholars about the Mappila outbreaks in South Malabar during the 1800s. These appear to be PhD doctoral theses. They seem of low quality, lacking depth, and written with poor English proficiency. A brief note on ...
- Sat Jun 14, 2025 12:50 am
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 14. About the Mappillas of Malabar
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- Views: 532
46. Caught and sustained in the flow of words
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif Saiyid Fazl Thangal was a person of Arab lineage. It can be believed to some extent that he sought to exemplify and propagate Muhammad’s character traits. However, social behaviours in that region are caught and sustained in the flow of words within the local...
- Sat Jun 14, 2025 12:39 am
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 14. About the Mappillas of Malabar
- Replies: 51
- Views: 532
45. If language codes cannot accommodate emancipation
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif I have not conducted an in-depth study of the Mappila outbreaks in South Malabar during the 1800s. However, such topics occasionally catch attention while reading other materials. Among writings by locals, some appear to be authored by those aligned with Hind...
- Sat Jun 14, 2025 12:33 am
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 14. About the Mappillas of Malabar
- Replies: 51
- Views: 532
44. Those who are not Muhammad’s replicas
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif Society operates within a feudal language framework. In this social environment, landlords lease agricultural land to cultivators. When renting out land, houses, or commercial spaces, the hierarchical distinctions in feudal language codes often persist betwee...
- Sat Jun 14, 2025 12:26 am
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 14. About the Mappillas of Malabar
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- Views: 532
43. Mr. Strange understood nothing
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif Let us now briefly review Mr. Strange’s social study report. I have not seen the report itself, but it is referenced in the Malabar Manual. First, it must be noted that in South Asia’s known historical period, it is unclear whether there was ever a tendency t...
- Sat Jun 14, 2025 12:20 am
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 14. About the Mappillas of Malabar
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- Views: 532
42. Differences in perspective
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif It is somewhat simplistic to say that the English Company failed to understand South Malabar. In truth, they did not fully comprehend South Asia itself. South Asia does not exhibit the flat social landscape seen through the English language. Instead, it is a ...
- Sat Jun 14, 2025 12:14 am
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 14. About the Mappillas of Malabar
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- Views: 532
41. Tensions in Malabar communities
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif In South Malabar, some Mappilas were attacking the Brahmin faction in a communal manner. Defining this as Islamic communalism or terrorism has several shortcomings. Society harboured some harsh realities. First, the brutal feudal language. Second, the extreme...
- Fri Jun 13, 2025 12:18 pm
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 14. About the Mappillas of Malabar
- Replies: 51
- Views: 532
40. Using feudal language word codes with reversed poles
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif In Malabar, particularly South Malabar, communal violence erupted intermittently. Multiple factors contributed to growing tensions and psychological stress within society, each playing a role in creating social issues. The English Company administration envis...
- Fri Jun 13, 2025 12:13 pm
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 14. About the Mappillas of Malabar
- Replies: 51
- Views: 532
39. Divergence in social interests
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif In South Malabar, numerous issues related to land ownership persisted within society. It seems the English officials failed to grasp the true nature of these matters. The intricate barriers, taboos, directional codes, hierarchies, deep chasms, sharp edges, an...
- Fri Jun 13, 2025 12:09 pm
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 14. About the Mappillas of Malabar
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- Views: 532
38. Some matters related to land ownership
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif The reality is that laws, police, and courts alone cannot reform a society. In a population with a diabolical linguistic disposition, no matter how many beneficial measures are introduced, their reactions, interactions, and provocations will always flow throu...
- Fri Jun 13, 2025 12:00 pm
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 14. About the Mappillas of Malabar
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- Views: 532
37. Contradictory and confusing information
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif The invasions by Hyder Ali and Sultan Tipu from Mysore caused significant upheavals in Malabar’s social order, leading to revolutionary disruptions without clear foundations. It seems many who were long enslaved converted to Islam and acquired land. However, ...
- Fri Jun 13, 2025 11:24 am
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 14. About the Mappillas of Malabar
- Replies: 51
- Views: 532
36. The collective spirit of personalities standing at 180° opposing poles
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif For the lower-class Mappilas of South Malabar, who were rising mentally, physically, culturally, and socially through Islam, the presence of Saiyid Fazl Thangal, standing in a divine spiritual position, must have been a tremendous source of mental strength. I...
- Fri Jun 13, 2025 11:13 am
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 14. About the Mappillas of Malabar
- Replies: 51
- Views: 532
35. When a divine figure becomes a social leader
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif It is unclear whether manuals like the Malabar Manual were created for every district in the Madras Presidency, but it is known that such manuals were produced in several districts. It seems the Madras Presidency government issued a general order to compile t...
- Fri Jun 13, 2025 11:11 am
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 14. About the Mappillas of Malabar
- Replies: 51
- Views: 532
34. Introduction to Saiyid Fazl Thangal
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif At that time, various regions of South Asia were gradually coming under the English Company’s rule. Each region presented its own unique issues. The early decision of the English East India Company’s Director Board was to avoid taking over governance in any r...
- Fri Jun 13, 2025 11:05 am
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 14. About the Mappillas of Malabar
- Replies: 51
- Views: 532
33. Lack of interest among those freed from servitude towards those still enslaved
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif It must be understood that from around 1836, the English administration could not discern the precise reasons behind incidents in parts of South Malabar where Mappilas attacked Hindus (Namboodiris), along with their associates, the Ambalavasis and Nairs. It a...
- Fri Jun 13, 2025 10:58 am
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 14. About the Mappillas of Malabar
- Replies: 51
- Views: 532
32. Those who experienced freedom did not willingly return to servitude
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif It was said that when Islam spread among the lower classes, it caused alarm among others, but the same phenomenon did not occur when English spread among them. However, the matter concerning English needs further clarification. When Islam spread in South Mala...
- Fri Jun 13, 2025 2:47 am
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 14. About the Mappillas of Malabar
- Replies: 51
- Views: 532
31. The spiritual movement that creates fear that the lowly might become defiant
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif When discussing the Muslims of Malabar, matters tend to veer into highly complex territories. Addressing these matters here and now would require delving into history, which this writer is not yet prepared to do. For now, this writing remains focused on the e...
- Fri Jun 13, 2025 12:28 am
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 14. About the Mappillas of Malabar
- Replies: 51
- Views: 532
30. Mohammedans who showed loyalty to English rule
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif Let us focus solely on the lower-caste communities in southern Malabar who converted to Islam. They were not the only Mohammedans in the region. Namboodiris, Ambalavasis, and Nairs who embraced Islam may also have existed, alongside distinct Arab families. Th...
- Fri Jun 13, 2025 12:23 am
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 14. About the Mappillas of Malabar
- Replies: 51
- Views: 532
29. A shadow of remorse toward Mappilas in the Malabar Manual
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif The Malabar Manual frequently praises Nairs, often comparing them to modern Indian police constables. It describes them as maintaining peace, law, and order in small kingdoms, regulating conflicts and rivalries among lower communities, overseeing them, preven...
- Fri Jun 13, 2025 12:17 am
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 14. About the Mappillas of Malabar
- Replies: 51
- Views: 532
28. How Islam stirred unrest in the local community
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif The year is 2021, marking 100 years since the Mappila Rebellion. If what was studied for the IAS is accurate, like other freedom struggle celebrations, the Mappila Rebellion should be commemorated with great fervor as a centennial event. Moreover, it is heard...
- Fri Jun 13, 2025 12:13 am
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 14. About the Mappillas of Malabar
- Replies: 51
- Views: 532
27. A broader look at the Mappila Rebellion
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif The Mappila Rebellion was a communal riot that erupted around 1921 in parts of southern Malabar, specifically in Ernad, Valluvanad, Ponnani, and Calicut taluks. In the early months of 1921, the unrest spread rapidly from mosque to mosque and village to villag...
- Fri Jun 13, 2025 12:08 am
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 14. About the Mappillas of Malabar
- Replies: 51
- Views: 532
26. The opportunity for Jinnah’s faction and Nehru’s faction to seize South Asia
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif In June 1947, Malabar Muslim League representatives met Muhammad Ali Jinnah in Delhi for the last time. Their request to create a Mappilastan in Malabar did not seem acceptable to Jinnah. He reportedly dismissed it as something that could only exist in an ove...
- Fri Jun 13, 2025 12:04 am
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 14. About the Mappillas of Malabar
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25. How northern petty leaders swayed Malabaris and more
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif When local movements clashed, English rule became a trump card for all to exploit. The grand delusion of self-proclaimed intellectuals was that foreigners had seized the great India. These so-called enlightened minds ignored the fact that, through highly effi...
- Fri Jun 13, 2025 12:00 am
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 14. About the Mappillas of Malabar
- Replies: 51
- Views: 532
24. The emergence of the Mappilastan idea in Malabar
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif It appears that Kerala Jaiyathul Ulema is likely the Kerala Jamiyyathul Ulama. This organisation, I believe, originated in Malabar, though I am not certain. While it primarily focuses on religious matters, at its annual conference in 1947, it declared its fai...
- Thu Jun 12, 2025 11:56 pm
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 14. About the Mappillas of Malabar
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- Views: 532
23. Those who clashed in the political arena
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif In the autobiography of a Namboodiri, revolutionary party leader, and later Chief Minister of Kerala for a brief period, there are certain sentences written about escaping from the manor in Elamkulam during the Mappila rebellion and returning to the manor a f...
- Thu Jun 12, 2025 11:52 pm
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 14. About the Mappillas of Malabar
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- Views: 532
22. A Mohammedan organisation against the Muslim League
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif The political leaders of the time aimed to plunge British Malabar and the entirety of British India into a historical upheaval, akin to the Niagara Falls cascading all its waters into an unfathomable abyss, dragging everything toward a Hindi-dominated rule. T...
- Thu Jun 12, 2025 11:46 pm
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 14. About the Mappillas of Malabar
- Replies: 51
- Views: 532
21. What democracy has led British-India to
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif It cannot be said with certainty that throughout known history, South Asia had clearly defined kingdoms and their subjects in the manner we understand today. While historical texts may speak of great empires, emperors, and monarchs, it does not seem that any ...
- Thu Jun 12, 2025 12:19 pm
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 14. About the Mappillas of Malabar
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- Views: 532
20. To uplift those who joined the Mohammedan faith
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif By the early 1900s, local politicians and social elites in British India began to realize they could govern the region. Many who had visited England and returned harbored ambitions beyond mere governance. The English East India Company had built a nation in S...
- Thu Jun 12, 2025 12:15 pm
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 14. About the Mappillas of Malabar
- Replies: 51
- Views: 532
19. A song that disrupted some grand rhythm in the mind
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif The third decision mentioned from the first District Muslim League Council held in Tellicherry in 1937 was: 3. The plan to make the poem Vande Mataram the national anthem of British India should be abandoned. The notion that British India was governed solely ...
- Thu Jun 12, 2025 12:07 pm
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 14. About the Mappillas of Malabar
- Replies: 51
- Views: 532
18. A social engineering project without insight
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif The second request made by the first District Muslim League Council held in Tellicherry in 1937 was to establish a special electoral system for Mohammedans in local boards and municipalities, to be enshrined in the Madras Local Boards Act and the Madras Distr...
- Thu Jun 12, 2025 12:00 pm
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 14. About the Mappillas of Malabar
- Replies: 51
- Views: 532
17. The motivation to stay away from Indian public education
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif In the previous section, three decisions made at the first District Muslim League Council held in Tellicherry in 1937 were highlighted. These were requests directed at the English administration. It must be clearly understood that these requests were made to ...
- Thu Jun 12, 2025 11:56 am
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 14. About the Mappillas of Malabar
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- Views: 532
16. The growth of Brahmanism that Brahmins could neither control nor restrain
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif In an era where Indian academic employees, amassing exorbitant salaries and numerous unearned privileges, point out the alleged thousand faults of the English administration in South Asia, I will seize this opportunity to clarify what actually transpired duri...
- Thu Jun 12, 2025 11:52 am
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 14. About the Mappillas of Malabar
- Replies: 51
- Views: 532
15. What else to shout, other than to say: throw the foreign rule into the Arabian Sea?
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif In the 1930s, both the Congress and the Muslim League were vying for the support of Malabar’s Mohammedans. While we may speak of British India or British Malabar, it was likely clear to many locals that the English administration had adopted a self-destructiv...
- Thu Jun 12, 2025 11:48 am
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 14. About the Mappillas of Malabar
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14. British Malabar turned into a breeding ground for renegades
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif Not only in British Malabar but across British India, the English administration existed in name only. Most government officials were British-Indian citizens. Some individuals from neighbouring states may have also secured government positions in British Indi...
- Thu Jun 12, 2025 11:45 am
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 14. About the Mappillas of Malabar
- Replies: 51
- Views: 532
13. Efforts to bring Malabar under the control of northerners
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif It is understood that there were certain differences in the population between North Malabar and South Malabar. It appears that those in the north harboured a sense of superiority over those in the south. This attitude was particularly evident among the Nairs...
- Thu Jun 12, 2025 11:40 am
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 14. About the Mappillas of Malabar
- Replies: 51
- Views: 532
12. Factionalism from the northern regions to British Malabar
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif The English colonial history had certain distinctive features. The English colonial administration accomplished many things worldwide that no other system, whether local or colonial, had done. One such feature was this: in regions under English administration...
- Thu Jun 12, 2025 11:36 am
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 14. About the Mappillas of Malabar
- Replies: 51
- Views: 532
11. Mohammedan leaders loyal to the English administration
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif In 1922, an organisation named the Aikya Sangam, or Unity Association, was reportedly formed as a Mohammedan reform organisation. Official history indicates that, in British India, various reform organisations aligned with the definition of Hinduism had emerg...
- Thu Jun 12, 2025 10:37 am
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 14. About the Mappillas of Malabar
- Replies: 51
- Views: 532
10. Dragging British Malabar to servility under northern Indian leadership
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif The English administration’s creation of British India effortlessly fostered a new nationalist sentiment of a unified Indian nation. The English themselves designed and provided the conditions for this idea to sprout, grow, and flourish. Alongside this unprec...
- Thu Jun 12, 2025 10:33 am
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 14. About the Mappillas of Malabar
- Replies: 51
- Views: 532
9. Demands of Mappila organisations in Malabar
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif The English term political pragmatism refers to a philosophy that determines value based on practical outcomes. It implies flexibility in principles, adapting policies for immediate gains. In electoral politics, this means saying or doing anything to secure v...
- Thu Jun 12, 2025 10:30 am
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 14. About the Mappillas of Malabar
- Replies: 51
- Views: 532
8. The new Hindu mantle spreading across British India
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif Northern British India was rife with communalism and casteist ideologies. As Malabar was part of British India, these social maladies began seeping in from the north. The antics of prominent South Asian figures and movements also started infiltrating Malabar....
- Thu Jun 12, 2025 10:27 am
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 14. About the Mappillas of Malabar
- Replies: 51
- Views: 532
7. The experience Congress faced in South Malabar
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif For ages, this subcontinent has witnessed ceaseless conflicts—large and small—marked by invasions, betrayals, and more. Victory at any cost is paramount; defeat risks consigning even a great individual or family to the humiliating labels of “nee,” “eda,” “edi...
- Thu Jun 12, 2025 10:22 am
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 14. About the Mappillas of Malabar
- Replies: 51
- Views: 532
6. On the farce of satyagraha and more
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif The English administration quietly achieved significant feats in British India without fanfare or war cries. It implemented schemes to educate the masses, enacted laws, built roads and pathways free of caste considerations, and constructed dams. It establishe...
- Thu Jun 12, 2025 10:18 am
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 14. About the Mappillas of Malabar
- Replies: 51
- Views: 532
5. Freeing slaves provokes retaliation from slave owners
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif The English administration melded countless regions, communities, and kingdoms with no historical ties, creating what was locally known as British India. Many princely states adjacent to this India were loosely associated with the term. Aligning with areas un...
- Thu Jun 12, 2025 10:15 am
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 14. About the Mappillas of Malabar
- Replies: 51
- Views: 532
4. Introducing northern politicians as great souls
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif In South Asia, the English administration, for the first time in history, introduced various freedoms in British India, enabling many to rise as prominent leaders. Malabar began connecting with regions it had no historical ties to. This allowed divisive ideol...
- Thu Jun 12, 2025 10:08 am
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 14. About the Mappillas of Malabar
- Replies: 51
- Views: 532
3. On the experience akin to a wild beast’s bite
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif The Malabar Manual contains the following passage: QUOTE : Socially the cultivators are subjected (particularly if they are Hindus) to many humiliations and much tyrannical usage by their landlord. This observation is understood to be William Logan’s own. The...
- Thu Jun 12, 2025 10:03 am
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 14. About the Mappillas of Malabar
- Replies: 51
- Views: 532
2. If the military leadership had been local
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif Indian academic intellectuals claim that the English administration was responsible for all manner of wickedness in South Asia, a region steeped in profound malevolence for ages. However, blaming them alone is futile, as every political opportunist has echoed...
- Thu Jun 12, 2025 9:44 am
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 14. About the Mappillas of Malabar
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- Views: 532
1. When feudal tongues clashed from opposing corners
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif From around the 1830s, many officials of the English administration in Malabar pondered deeply over why certain Mappilas in South Malabar harboured such intense animosity towards Hindu landlords (Namboodiris), their temple-dwelling kin, their overseer Nayars,...
- Thu Jun 12, 2025 9:41 am
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 14. About the Mappillas of Malabar
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- Views: 532
Contents
1. When feudal tongues clashed from opposing corners 2. If the military leadership had been local 3. On the experience akin to a wild beast’s bite 4. Introducing northern politicians as great souls 5. Freeing slaves provokes retaliation from slave owners 6. On the farce of satyagraha and more 7. Th...
- Thu Jun 12, 2025 9:41 am
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 14. About the Mappillas of Malabar
- Replies: 51
- Views: 532
- Thu Jun 12, 2025 3:16 am
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 13. When introduced to a new lifestyle
- Replies: 51
- Views: 632
50. Half-dark and clear as daylight
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif For many educated and informed people in the new nation of India, events from the decades just before their birth appear as half-dark images in their minds. These shadowy images are illuminated by formal textbooks, films, newspapers, and magazines. “What’s th...
- Thu Jun 12, 2025 3:10 am
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 13. When introduced to a new lifestyle
- Replies: 51
- Views: 632
49. Matters just before the day one was born
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif It seems that a good percentage of people have little knowledge about events just before their birth. The main reason might be that their minds are preoccupied with the necessities of daily life. However, through subtle and covert means, interested parties ma...
- Thu Jun 12, 2025 3:05 am
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 13. When introduced to a new lifestyle
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- Views: 632
48. On filmmakers rewriting history
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif I cannot write about the Mappila riot, a communal clash in South Malabar, in this piece, as this writer lacks precise details of the events that transpired. However, it seems various police cases and court judgments from that time are available on archive.org...
- Thu Jun 12, 2025 3:02 am
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 13. When introduced to a new lifestyle
- Replies: 51
- Views: 632
47. The waves of the Khilafat Movement in Malabar
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif In the English-ruled regions of South Asia, there was a distinctive feature: anyone could rise to leadership. One could organise agitations with political goals, using protests, clamour, public speeches, and notice distribution to gain attention. From there, ...
- Thu Jun 12, 2025 2:58 am
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 13. When introduced to a new lifestyle
- Replies: 51
- Views: 632
46. To import English human personalities into British-Malabar
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif The English administration sought to introduce ideas of social equality, human rights, individual dignity, and more into a society where the prevailing ideology was that the strong and influential hold sway. In this subcontinent, cunning and sharp-wittedness ...
- Thu Jun 12, 2025 2:51 am
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 13. When introduced to a new lifestyle
- Replies: 51
- Views: 632
45. When the lower communities entered the Muhammadan label in Malabar
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif Let me speak of South Asia. It doesn’t seem that the people of the Islamic faith were a unified group. Sunnis and Shias have clashed in the northern parts of South Asia for ages. Among the Slave Dynasty sultans who ruled Delhi, there were significant massacre...
- Thu Jun 12, 2025 2:41 am
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 13. When introduced to a new lifestyle
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44. The mindset that only by uniting can one survive here
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif In Cannanore, the Arakkal family, along with other Muhammadans in the vicinity who share Greek bloodlines, the Keyi family in Tellicherry, Mappilas in North and South Malabar with Arab bloodlines, Mappilas from Namboodiri-Ambalavasi-Nair family lines, Mappila...
- Thu Jun 12, 2025 1:57 am
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 13. When introduced to a new lifestyle
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43. Malabari Muslims in the democratic surge
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif I plan to briefly examine the life experiences of Malabari Muslims from the early 20th century (1900 onwards) until the period when Malabar was annexed to Travancore. CPS, born in 1927 in Tellicherry, North Malabar, studied in an English convent there and lat...
- Thu Jun 12, 2025 1:51 am
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 13. When introduced to a new lifestyle
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42. Paradise, Houris and More
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif I have heard the term niskarathazhambu. It refers to a small mark or scar-like spot on the forehead of men who regularly pray at the mosque. Some Muslims seem to consider this mark a clear sign of the person’s religious faith, devotion to God, and honesty. Th...
- Thu Jun 12, 2025 1:46 am
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 13. When introduced to a new lifestyle
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41. More words among Malabari Muslims
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif I am adding a few more words related to Malabari Muslims that I have heard and have in mind. Mahal : It seems to refer to the area where Muslims live under the jurisdiction of a specific mosque committee. A’oodhu : I understand it means "I seek refuge in...
- Thu Jun 12, 2025 1:35 am
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 13. When introduced to a new lifestyle
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40. Words among Malabari Muslims
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif I am mentioning some expressions heard in the past related to Malabari Muslims. First, Sunnath . It seems Sunnath refers to the lifestyle and practices demonstrated or taught by Muhammad (the Prophet). It also feels like a word closely associated with somethi...
- Thu Jun 12, 2025 1:31 am
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 13. When introduced to a new lifestyle
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- Views: 632
39. About tying the mundu to the left
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif I am continuing the account based on the limited information gained through hearsay about Malabari Muslims. First, let us look at a few expressions commonly found among Malabari Muslims: Kolkali, Oppana, Mappilappattu. Kolkali seems to be a dance performed wi...
- Thu Jun 12, 2025 1:25 am
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 13. When introduced to a new lifestyle
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38. Some miscellaneous matters among Malabari Muslims
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif https://youtu.be/7pEVtJKno2s In Volume 9 , Chapter 15 of this writing, I discussed various matters related to worship among the lower-class Christians of Travancore. Similarly, in Volume 9 , Chapter 16, I addressed similar matters within the Hindu (Brahmin) r...
- Thu Jun 12, 2025 1:14 am
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- Topic: 13. When introduced to a new lifestyle
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37. About cow worship
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif https://youtu.be/R1ENNpZ6Um4?si=aFEfEk1UhNDdyANQ I am continuing with miscellaneous matters related to Mappilas. However, before that, it seems appropriate to discuss some points concerning cow worship in Malabar and, moreover, in South Asia. This is because ...
- Thu Jun 12, 2025 1:09 am
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 13. When introduced to a new lifestyle
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36. About the Ahmadiyya movement and other matters
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif It is said that he claimed to be the Mahdi Imam, believed to appear in the last days of the world. Although the Ahmadiyya movement exists today as an independent movement in many parts of the world, orthodox Islam does not recognise these people as followers ...
- Wed Jun 11, 2025 11:27 am
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 13. When introduced to a new lifestyle
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35. To introduce and establish family and family prestige
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif More needs to be said about Muhammadans in South Asia in general and Malabar’s Mappilas in particular. I, this writer, write within the limits of my knowledge, but without restraining thoughts or reflections. Below is a quoted passage: Tharawadikal, Tharawatt...
- Wed Jun 11, 2025 11:21 am
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- Topic: 13. When introduced to a new lifestyle
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34. About Mappila slave traders
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif Let me address a matter concerning the slave trade. Many today believe the English were solely responsible for the slave trade, which is nearly 100% incorrect. However, formal historical records provide evidence to refute this. I plan to delve into this topic...
- Wed Jun 11, 2025 11:14 am
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 13. When introduced to a new lifestyle
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33. Different communities within Malabar’s Muhammadans
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif The conversion of many Cherumars and other lower-caste groups in South Malabar to Islam likely brought significant changes in their mental outlook. For individuals who had no social value, living like mere cattle on landlords’ fields, sleeping and sitting on ...
- Wed Jun 11, 2025 11:06 am
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 13. When introduced to a new lifestyle
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32. The matter of Valluvanad
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif I had not intended to write about the Mappilas now. However, as this topic has come up in the course of writing, it has become necessary to include it at this juncture. When writing history, it naturally becomes necessary to include details about the Mappilas...
- Wed Jun 11, 2025 10:59 am
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 13. When introduced to a new lifestyle
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31. About other Mappilas and another connection of the word Mappila
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif What follows is about another group of Mappilas. Individuals of Arab descent, working on Arab trading dhows and sailing ships, likely married lower-caste women and others along the Malabar coast, raising children in modest, habitable huts. From these children...
- Wed Jun 11, 2025 4:29 am
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 13. When introduced to a new lifestyle
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30. Historical background of the Arakkal family
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif Readers should note that this writer has very limited knowledge on this subject. The following is based solely on hearsay and a few passages from the Malabar Manual. There may be additional details beyond this that the writer is unaware of. In British Malabar...
- Wed Jun 11, 2025 4:12 am
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 13. When introduced to a new lifestyle
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29. On the term “Mappila”
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif In the 1970s, while visiting Alleppey in Travancore, I learned that the term “Mappila” referred to Christians, specifically Syrian Christians, in that region. This seemed significant, though I also noticed many words in Travancore’s language differed starkly ...
- Wed Jun 11, 2025 4:08 am
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- Topic: 13. When introduced to a new lifestyle
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28. A state requiring veils and sieved paper before the eyes
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif Let us return to the flow of the narrative. During the English rule, Brahmin and royal families who converted to Islam likely existed in both North and South Malabar. However, even higher in status were Muslim families carrying pure Arab blood, as documented ...
- Wed Jun 11, 2025 4:01 am
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- Topic: 13. When introduced to a new lifestyle
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27. One of the factors that fueled deep resentment toward Islam in this peninsula
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif While Malabar’s Muslim community is commonly referred to as Mappilas, it is understood that they encompass diverse heritages. Today’s Mappilas likely carry a mix of varied ancestral bloodlines from these different backgrounds. However, elite Malabar Muslims, ...
- Wed Jun 11, 2025 3:55 am
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- Topic: 13. When introduced to a new lifestyle
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26. Social Changes in British Malabar
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif The narrative has been exploring the social atmosphere that Mr. Govindan, born and raised in Tellicherry , witnessed and experienced in his surroundings, as well as in North and South Malabar. Govindan belonged to the Marumakkathaya Thiyya community, known in...
- Wed Jun 11, 2025 3:48 am
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 13. When introduced to a new lifestyle
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25. A glimpse into the origins of the Mappila Rebellion in South Malabar
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif I am concluding the discussion on the Nairs. Only a few points remain in my mind. During the Mysore invasions, many from the Cherumars to the Makkathaya Thiyyas in South Malabar converted to Islam. The English administration followed soon after these invasion...
- Wed Jun 11, 2025 3:39 am
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 13. When introduced to a new lifestyle
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24. When new laws began to curb old powers
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif I am about to conclude the discussion on the Nairs, but a couple more points need to be added. Firstly, when the English Company merged South Malabar and North Malabar to establish the Malabar district and introduced written legal systems, the Nairs, along wi...
- Wed Jun 11, 2025 3:33 am
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 13. When introduced to a new lifestyle
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23. Contradictions in Hindu-Muslim communal conflicts
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif This writing is now moving through matters concerning the Nairs. However, some thoughts related to the previous chapter have come to mind, and I intend to note them here before proceeding. What I wish to discuss is the Hindu-Muslim communal conflict observed ...
- Wed Jun 11, 2025 3:27 am
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 13. When introduced to a new lifestyle
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22. The motivation to convert others to one's own religion
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif For the proponents of Arabian Islam, there may have been a belief that converting communities perceived as more primitive to Islam could culturally elevate them. However, this is often not entirely feasible. It has been noted with some surprise in the Malabar...
- Tue Jun 10, 2025 6:51 pm
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 13. When introduced to a new lifestyle
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21. On information that was immediately turned into private property
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif Before continuing with this writing, I must share an insight that has come to mind. In Volume 13 of this work, in the chapter titled ‘On the Kalarippayattu expertise found among some Nairs’, I had reflected on how the roots of Kalarippayattu might have spread...
- Tue Jun 10, 2025 12:09 pm
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- Topic: 13. When introduced to a new lifestyle
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20. When introduced to a new lifestyle
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif First, let’s examine why Nayars did not return to their traditional spirituality, social behaviours, and family customs. Then, we’ll explore why Christianity and Islam, both forcibly and otherwise, converted or allowed foreign peoples to join their faiths. Al...
- Tue Jun 10, 2025 12:05 pm
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- Topic: 13. When introduced to a new lifestyle
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19. Nayars did not leap out of Islam when given the chance
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif Can it be said that the Mysoreans, by converting some Ambalavasis, Nayars, Mappila Thiyyas, Pulayas, Pariahs, Cherumars, and others in Malabar to Islam, forcibly converted Hindus to Islam? None of the communities mentioned above were truly Hindus at that time...
- Tue Jun 10, 2025 11:54 am
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 13. When introduced to a new lifestyle
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18. What saved the Nayars from harsh enslavement
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif It may indeed be true that Hyder Ali and, later, his son Tipu, forcibly converted many Nayars in Malabar to Islam. Quote from Malabar Manual: Parappanad, also "Tichera Terupar, a principal Nayar of Nelemboor” and many other persons, who had been carried ...
- Tue Jun 10, 2025 11:48 am
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 13. When introduced to a new lifestyle
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17. High-low status fragments that keep individuals apart
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif It may indeed be true that Hyder Ali and, later, his son Tipu, forcibly converted many Nayars in Malabar to Islam. Quote from Malabar Manual: Parappanad, also "Tichera Terupar, a principal Nayar of Nelemboor” and many other persons, who had been carried ...
- Tue Jun 10, 2025 11:43 am
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 13. When introduced to a new lifestyle
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16. On the breaking and redirection in IVRS
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif The invisible command-obedience link existing in the Indian Army and South Asia is termed Indicant Vector Route Segments (IVRS). तू आप्प् 👇👆 👇👆 👇👆 👇👆 👇👆 👇👆 👇👆 👇👆 👇👆 👇👆 👇👆 👇👆 👇👆 In the feudal languages of South Asia, just as there exists an invisible high-low ...
- Tue Jun 10, 2025 11:29 am
- Forum: South Asia
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15. Social structure designing links upward and downward
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif Quote from Malabar and Anjengo: The large admixture of Aryan blood combined with the physical peculiarities of the country would go far to explain the very marked difference between the Nayar of the present day, and what may be considered the corresponding Dr...
- Tue Jun 10, 2025 9:37 am
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 13. When introduced to a new lifestyle
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14. When those enslaved in feudal languages receive an English experience
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif The starting point of the Nairs’ personality and mental state may have been from the lowest level of the Indicant Index Number (IIN). Later, as they began to gain control over lower-class people, their IIN level rose through generations, and some among them m...
- Tue Jun 10, 2025 9:33 am
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 13. When introduced to a new lifestyle
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13. About the enigmatic personality trait of the Indicant Index Number
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif In the previous writing, I mentioned that the personality, physical structure, facial expressions, and other aspects of every individual in India are shaped in accordance with the definition of a specific proportional standard of the word forms Avaru (highest...
- Tue Jun 10, 2025 9:24 am
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 13. When introduced to a new lifestyle
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12. The ratio of two different directional components at opposite angles
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif Quote: When a person, who is usually addressed by everyone as "Nee" (lowest you), "eda" (pejorative you), or merely by name, is suddenly addressed in another setting as "Sir," "Brother," "Avaru" (highest level...
- Tue Jun 10, 2025 12:33 am
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 13. When introduced to a new lifestyle
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11. The words, thoughts, and opinions of the lower castes
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif It seems that the English administration did not fully grasp the true rationale, justification, or encouragement behind the social custom allowing Nair women to form short-term relationships with Namboodiris. However, the broader truth is that many aspects of...
- Tue Jun 10, 2025 12:24 am
- Forum: South Asia
- Topic: 13. When introduced to a new lifestyle
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10. The consequences of granting complete freedom to the lower castes
https://victoria.org.in/eclass/Malv.gif Let me revisit the point mentioned at the end of the previous writing. Words like Namboodiri, Bhattathiri, Pattar, Chakyar, Nambiar, Variar, and Nair refer to individuals from specific social groups in Malabar, positioned above Theeyars in the social hierarch...