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Keralam — God’s Own Country
God’s Own Country — a sliver of green between the mountains and the sea.
The Story of Kerala
The Story of Kerala
Squeezed between the Western Ghats and the Arabian Sea, this narrow strip of land has welcomed Roman pepper traders, Chinese junks, Arab dhows and Portuguese caravels — and turned every arrival into a part of itself.
Nine chapters, three thousand years.
From a legend of an axe thrown into the sea to a state that became a model for the world — scroll sideways through time.
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01 · Legend
The land the sea gave back
02 · c. 3rd century BCE – 12th century CE
Sangam poets and Chera kings
03 · 1st century BCE – 14th century CE
Muziris and the spice routes
04 · 20 May 1498
A ship off Kappad
05 · 1503 – 1947
Portuguese, Dutch and British
06 · 12th – 20th century
Zamorins, Travancore and Cochin
07 · 1888 – 1936
A renaissance against caste
08 · 1 November 1956
One Kerala
09 · 1956 – today
Modern Kerala
- districts, from Thiruvananthapuram to Kasaragod
- 14
- rivers — 41 flow west to the sea, 3 flow east
- 44
- of coastline along the Arabian Sea (approx.)
- 590 km
- the year Kerala was born, on 1 November
- 1956
Featured places
Eight postcards, fourteen districts.
Lighthouses and laterite cliffs, tea seas, forts over the surf — a first taste of what waits in each district.
