HISTORY: Recent Episodes

LIJI K

Reconstructing Past

Mahe

Learning, commerce

Marketing and internet

Brahmaswam, Devaswam

IT AND SOCIETY -2

Taliatiri

IT IMPACT

Fumigation, pagination

Settlements

Principles

Ambalappuzha- Karumadikkuttan

Thirthankaras

Chera capital

Women empowerment

Society and polity

Polity

Port cities

Three tier structure

Tinai

Vanpulam

Big ur, small ur

Fumigation

Physical and moral defence

Sunlight, fire, water

Professional groups

Oil, infrastructure

Respect des fonds, provenance of records

Society

Accession Register

Ainthinai

Disposal of records

Origin of Departmental record room

Iron objects, potteries, ornaments

Tappal, despatch

Sites of iron smelting

Types of filing system

Cultural influence

Different sites

Current, semi current records

Features of iron age society

Records and preservation

Iron tools, craft

Diwan, huzur cutchery, secretariat.

Tovari, edakkal

Features of neolithic age

Small stone tools

Stone tools, palaeolithic and mesolithic age.

Kozhikode, Ernakulam and Trivandrum archives.

Northern ballads, southren ballads

Difference and similarities - archives, library

Akam and puram, poetic notions, Alvars and Nayanars.

Sangam, assembly of monks. Ettuthokai, pathupattu and pathinenkilkanakku. Cilappathikaram, Manimekhalai.

Literary sources of Kerala History. Graeco-Roman sources.

Value of different types of archival materials.

Manuscripts, palm leaf records etc. are valuable sources. Vanneri granthavari, kutali granthavari, mathilakam records etc. provide valuable informations.