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Excerpt from MARCH of the evil empires: English versus the feudal languages

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...This is the foreword written by VED from VICTORIA INSTITUTIONS to the digital version of NATIVE LIFE IN TRAVANCORE by The REV. SAMUEL MATEER, F.L.S published by VICTORIA INSTITUTIONS in 2014...

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... a language in the Malabar coast, that is, in the northern parts of current day Kerala. This language was also known as Malayalam but quite different from the modern official version Malayalam. This language has more or less vanished in the last 30 years or so, succumbing to the onslaught of the official version, South Kerala Malayalam which came with statutory support. Th...

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...Now we move on to discuss the various facets of the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act. As mentioned earlier, this discussion cannot follow the tracks of wordings of the Act, which at best is only a display of empty pedantry. Before entering into the exact premises of the discussio...

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...d region, currently called Malappuram district, the southern Thiyyas converted to Muslims, and created a version Mappillas, with possible differences from the Mappillas of north Malabar (Arab blood mix). None of them carry lower caste identification, either anthropologically or by demeanour, other than what the feudal local vernacular enforces. ...

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...e essential difference, planar-languages has with feudal-languages. Feudal languages are quite powerful, in that, the moment they are spoken, the social structure and human relationships change powerfully into a custom-design hierarchy, depending on the language. When planar-languages are spoken, the social system and human relationship shift towards a planar arran...

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...food is an essential requirement. Since the word education is a wide one, for the time being one can say, giving information. Dress is also a part of social living. Well, these are only the minimal things, which only make a person barely sustain himself or herself in social living. These are not the components of improving another person or a group of persons. These are ju...

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...01. INTRODUCTION 02. Essence of improving 03. Command codes in the language software 04. SPONTANEOUS BLOCK TO INFORMATION 05. Forgetting as a social art 06. What the Colonial British faced 07. The third quandary 08. A personal briefing 09. Fifth issue 10. The sixth issue 11. Conceptualising looting 12. Insights from my own training programme 13. A colonial ...

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...This is a writing that goes into the very depth of feudal language social systems. The writing commenced as a regular broadcast through Whatsapp and still continues. The language of the original writing was a vernacular language of the southern parts of the South Asian Subcontinent. As of ...

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... in the year 1989. Around the year 2000, the completed version of this book was published online. As of now, this book is available for download on VICTORIA INSTITUTIONS’ Website In this book, a contention that languages are either software codes or software applications had been mentioned. After many years, when direct observations on the real codes in languages were...

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...e dull and indifferent quality of English teaching? P#59 - 27. Unacceptable levels of efficiency and competence P#61 - 28. Extreme subservience and social stature enhancement P#63 - 29. Potholes, and codes of crushing and mutilation inside feudal languages P#65 - 30. The imperative essentialness of a servile subordinate P#67 - 31. The repository of negativity! P#68 -...

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...programme with Malayalam & English audio. Another thing is a free Homeopathy teaching programme in Malayalam. The contents do have focus on English, Victorian-age England and English classics, both literary as well as movie/TV. You need to have Adobe Reader X or XI in your computer to open the file. For audio/video features to work, Adobe Flash Player needs to be insta...

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..., സൂചിപ്പിക്കപ്പെടുകയോ, അതുമല്ലെങ്കിൽ, ചർച്ച ചെയ്യപ്പെടുകയോ ചെയ്യപ്പെട്ടേക്കാം. ശാസ്ത്രം (Science), ഭാഷാ ശാസ്ത്രം (Linguistics), സാമൂഹിക ശാസ്ത്രം (Social Science), രാഷ്ട്രതന്ത്രം (Political Science), വിദ്യാഭ്യാസം (Education), നരവംശശാസ്ത്രം (Anthropology), നരകുലശാസ്ത്രം/വംശീയശാസ്ത്രം (Ethnographic studies), മനശ്ശാസ്ത്രം(Psychology), ശരീരഘടനാശാസ്ത്രം (Anatomy), അതീന്ദ്രിയ...

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...ency. The time period of his work in the district is given in this book as: 6th June 1875 to 20th March 1876 (around 9 months) as Ag. Collector. From 9th May 1878 to 21st April 1879 (around 11 months) as Collector. From 23rd November 1880 to 3rd February 1881 (around 2 months) as Collector. Then from 23rd January 1883 to 17th April 1883 (around 3 months) as Collector...

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...iven to Joseph Rabban (the principality) Anjuvannam, along with the 72 Janmi2 rights, such as (going) with elephants and (other) conveyances, tribute from subordinate landholders, and the possession (or revenue) of Anjuvannam, the light by day, the spreading cloth, the litter, the umbrella, the Vaduca drum (Jews' transl: "drum beaten with two sticks’’), the trumpet, the ga...

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...ntioned or unmentioned), words and attributes can go down. However, there is this issue. The same word can have severely differing meanings when seen from English and from Indian peninsular vernaculars perspectives. In English the sense of ‘an honourable man’ is that of a person who is honest, has rectitude, wouldn’t cheat, would keep his words, would be fair in dealings e...

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...book is V. NAGAM AIYA. I think that many Indian academic historians, who have endeavoured to write the history of ‘Modern’ India, should take lessons from this most unassuming writer, V. NAGAM AIYA. For, they have written the history of ‘Modern’ India in terms of and the perspective from, the Party congresses, meetings, terror activities, splits in political parties, and ...

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...State of the country and chief events Travancore at this period extended from Attungal to Nagercoil. The dynasty of Jayasimha still continued to rule the country between Azhikkal (Karunagapalli Taluq) in the north and Paravur in the south, and, as noted above, there was an alliance in 1727 A.D., b...

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...LAKSHMI BAYI THE TRAGIC REIGN of SWATI TIRUNAL TRADE AND CRUDE OFFICIALS THE REAL REFORMERS OF INDIA, MALABAR & TRAVANCORE THE ERRORS IN SOCIAL ENGINEERING REPULSION FOR THE WORD ‘SUDRA’ WHAT WAS HAPPENING IN MALABAR PLACE NAMES A PROPITIOUS RELATIONSHP AND A GULLIBILITY CHRISTIAN MISSIONARIES WHAT A FOOL DID The Royal Family General ob...

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...ten by Lord Alfred Douglas. I thought of taking up this book for the conversion into a readable digital book. The steps involved copying the text from certain scanned versions of the original book and recreating them as text in MS Word. It had its travails in that text had to be reformatted and the line-by-line (not sentence by sentence) arrangement of the copied text ...

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...over to the publishers as long ago as last July. Certain persons thereupon deemed it advisable to apply to the Court for an injunction restraining me from including in my book any of the letters from Oscar Wilde which were in my possession, and they further applied for an injunction restraining me from quoting from the unpublished portion of the "De Profundis" manuscript w...

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...PREFACE In 1894, equipped with a set of anthropometric Instruments obtained on loan from the Asiatic Society of Bengal, I commenced an investigation of the tribes of the Nilgiri hills, the Todas, Kotas, and Badagas, bringing down on myself the unofficial criticism that "anthropological research at high altit...

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...Commentary The work Designing this old book into a digital book version had its own travails and hard work. I took the text from various online sources. The text needed a lot of corrections, when it was converted into a MS Word file. Moreover, there were lots of pages missing. I think I have been able to get most of the pages...

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...th a little rice, or chained to trees like monkeys to their cage-posts. “I once saw,” says Fra Bartolomeo, about A.D. 1780, “five natives suspended from a tree in a forest near Ambalapusha, on account of the supposed crime of killing a cow.” Again he says : “At Quilon, I saw a native of the caste of the Shanars hanging on a gallows for having stolen three cocoanuts in th...

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...UT FIBRE AND MANUFACTURES 24. BOATS AND FISHING 25. INDIAN MUSIC 26. MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS 27. DISTILLATION AND EXCISE 28. POLITICAL AND SOCIAL CONDITION IN FORMER TIMES 29. SLAVERY 30. CHRISTIAN WORK AMONG THE SLAVE CASTES 31. SERPENT WORSHIP 32. HINDU CASTE AND POLLUTION 33. RECENT MEASURES OF REFORM 34. FURTHER REFORMS NEEDED 35. HISTORY...