Kerala Day

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Location of Kerala in India

Kerala Day also referred to as Kerala Piravi, marks the birth of the state of

Independence of India
. Before this, it was three major provinces and several outlying regions under various rulers.

Timeline/History

Prior to 1956, Kerala had been divided into four regions: South Canara (Kasaragod region), Malabar, Cochin, and Travancore.

Malabar comprises the northern and north-central region around

British East India Company after the Anglo-Mysore Wars,[1][2] and first annexed to the British Bombay Presidency, and then replaced to Madras Presidency.[3][4][5] The coastal town of Mahe remained a French enclave until the early 1950s when it was integrated into the Union Territory of Puducherry. The central region comprised the erstwhile Kingdom of Cochin, administered from Thrissur. The southernmost province was the Kingdom of Travancore
, based in the city of Thiruvananthapuram. While Cochin had been a vassal state under the British Raj, Travancore Kingdom was administered under suzerainty.

Early in the 20th century, the

Zamindars who were mostly Hindus and the British Raj.[6] In the following years, agitations for political rights and a popular government took place in Travancore and Cochin as well. After India was partitioned in 1947 into India and Pakistan, Travancore and Cochin, part of India were merged on 1 July 1949 to form Travancore–Cochin (Thiru-Kochi).[7] A popular movement known as Aikya Kerala Movement, for the formation of the State of Kerala, gave motivation to the reorganization of the state on a linguistic basis.[8][9]

On 1 November 1956, the

Republic of San Marino.[12][13][14]

Events

References

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    . Retrieved 18 November 2012.
  2. ISBN 978-81-317-5830-4
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  3. ^ The Edinburgh Gazetteer. Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green. 1827. pp. 63–. Retrieved 18 November 2012.
  4. ^ Dharma Kumar (1965). Land and Caste in South India: Agricultural Labor in the Madras Presidency During the Nineteenth Century. CUP Archive. pp. 87–. GGKEY:T72DPF9AZDK. Retrieved 18 November 2012.
  5. ISBN 978-81-7017-034-1
    . Retrieved 18 November 2012.
  6. ISBN 978-90-04-11371-8
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  7. ISBN 978-0-14-310274-8
    . Retrieved 18 November 2012.
  8. ^ "Gulf Manorama | Kerala Day November First". Archived from the original on 30 October 2011. Retrieved 9 April 2013.
  9. ^ "Kerala state turns 55 - Economic Times". Archived from the original on 28 June 2013. Retrieved 9 April 2013.
  10. ISBN 9780520046672
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  11. ^
    ISBN 978-1-74179-155-6
    . Retrieved 6 January 2013.
  12. ^ K.G. Kumar (12 April 2007). "50 years of development". The Hindu. Retrieved 30 August 2013.
  13. ISBN 978-0-203-96774-4
    . Retrieved 31 August 2013.
  14. ISBN 978-81-7024-836-1
    . Retrieved 18 November 2012.
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