Tag Results: Kerala
History Daily
J J Murphy: Kerala’s Rubber Man
Rubber is one of Kerala’s more high-profile cash crops and its plantations are a way of life for hundreds of thousands of people. Catch the story of J J Murphy, an adventurous Irish planter and entrepreneur who kicked off the rubber revolution in Kerala
Amazing India
Palakkad Gap: Piece of the Puzzle
Go down south, along the tail end of the western ghats - mountains that hug the Arabian Sea coast in India and you will come across a site that bears testimony to one of the most spectacular continental drifts on Earth.
Amazing India
Onam: Where Myth & History Meet
Visit the Thrikkakara Vamanamoorthy Temple in Kochi, home of the festival of Onam and the legend behind it
'History of India' Series
Kerala - At the Crossroads of the World (13th BCE - 2nd CE)
How is the great Egyptian Pharaoh Ramesses II connected to present day Kerala? A small stretch of land, in a sleepy town in Kerala hides secrets to a past when this was an international trading hub. We travel through the deep South of India to find some buried treasures.