Native Life in Travancore - Couverture rigide

Mateer, Samuel

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 8119953541 ISBN 13 : 9788119953547

Editeur : Manohar Publishers and Distributors, 2023

Synopsis

Numerous books have been written about the history of Kerala by many non-Indian scholars. From ancient times, Greeks, Jews, Syrians, Arabs, Turks, Persians, Portuguese, British, etc., have written extensively about the history and region of Kerala. The book is an attempt to write the history of Travancore State. It is a 25-year-old study based on classified documents written in Malayalam, Tamil, and English. It covers reports like Abstracts of Castes and Ceremonies and Statistical Topics of Legislation and Judicial Administration, Land Tenure, Taxation, and Revenue, etc., from where all the socioeconomic history is taken from.

The book is an anthropological survey of southern Kerala, i.e. Travancore State, where castes of lower and upper origins, such as Pulayas, Ezhavas, Shanars, Nambudiris, and Royal Family of Travancore, are discussed in great detail. Also, it describes the practices and lives of Muslims and followers of Syriac Christianity. The author covers the lives of women, the role of missionaries in evangelizing the region, the economy, laws, and regulations. It also discusses the kinds of cash crops, followed by fisheries, music, and customs, the issue of slavery, the role of Christian missions, and Hindu customs and practices followed in the region. This book covers the cultural, regional, and socio-economic aspects of the Travancore region, which was a Princely state.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Samuel Mateer (1835-1893) was a Belfast-based British missionary. He was educated in Christian theology at Bedford Theological College. He left for India in 1858 and was in-charge of the Parassala Mission till he led Trivandrum Mission, where a church under his name, Mateer Memorial Church was established by the Mission. He was also involved in the indigenization of the mission, where he worked with the Pulaya community of south Kerala. He was also known as 'Pulaya Padri' for his work for the said and other backward communities of the region. He authored books like Land of Charity, Gospel in South India, etc. He left for England in 1891, and died there two years later.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Manohar Publishers and Distributors
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 8119953541
• ISBN 13: 9788119953547
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 450
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible