About kerala

Kerala, God’s own country, is a small beautiful state located on the west coast of India.  Kerala is surrounded by Karnataka to the north, The Arabian Sea to the west and Tamil Nadu to the east. Its capital is Thiruvanathapuram (Trivandrum), the most crowded state. Kerala is blessed with swaying coconut trees, picturesque landscapes, scintillating beaches, relaxing hillstations , beautiful mountains and backwaters. Kerala is a narrow strip approx. 35-120km in width. It is also called the land of Kera, the coconut. Kerala’s backwater system consists of 44 major rivers and lakes. Kerala is a hot and wet coastal plain with hilly area and mountains. Its coastline is flat on the Arabian Sea which is a part of the Indian Ocean). Kerala’s hospitality is commendable and inherited from its culture. People are welcoming and friendly.

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If paradise is green, Kerala is truly Eden. Festooned with placid rivers, limpid lakes and lagoons, lush green forests and warm and shimmering blue sea waters ever tumbling into embrace the vibrant-coloured coast in their crested waves, Kerala is a palm-dotted, enchanting garden. Even the beach sands offer as choice of colours. The corn-coloured northern shores change to a bleached silvery white near Alleppey, ebony-black sands at Quilon turn honey-gold along the shores of Trivandrum and Kovaiam in the south. And a splash of green in the sinuous plams swaying gracefully all along the coast, the coast of Kerala is unrivalled in scenic beauty.

Nature has indeed been more than generous to this narrow strip of country that stretches along the borders of Tamil Nadu in the east and Karna-taka in the north, steeply sloping down from the high mountains of the border country to the lovely beaches of the coast. Sandwiched between the Arabian Sea and the Western Ghats, Kerala is a beautiful, bountiful region, a tropical paradise famed for spices and ivory for centuries.
Kerala is not only a land of colours but it is also a romance of contrasts, where yesterday, today and tomorrow blend in graceful harmony. Here microwave towers embedded amidst the green finery of paddy fields, shoot up the horizon, and Thumba rocket station streaks into the skies high above the crude fishing crafts riding the waves of the sea along gigantic industrial complexes which coexist with blacksmithies and bullockcarts. The glorious sunshine of summer and the torrential down-pour of the monsoons, both have a charm of their own. A visitor to Kerala is enamoured not only of the limitless scenic charm but also of the vibrant vitality of the Kathakali dance, the lyrical charm of the Mohiniyattom, the frenzied ecstacies of the Theyyam dance and the battle-din of the SKalaripayattu. Though Kerala needs no memento, the green magic of the fertile land and the warmth of spontaneous hospitality of the common people, coupled with their tolerance and cosmopolitan out-look linger long and are never forgotten.

Kerala has been an integral part of the Indian sub-continent. "Its history is part of the general history of India and its culture is one of the major streams that have enriched the composite culture of India." At the same time it had its own geographical and political identity from very early days on account of its unique geographical position and peculiar physical features. Kerala, though enjoyed a large measure of isolation from the rest of the sub-continent, convulsed from time to time by external aggressions contributing to India's kaleidoscopic history, had extensive and vigorous contact with the outside world from time immemorial. It will therefore be only appropriate to go into a detailed study of the topography, climate, mineral resources and flora and fauna of the state.

FORMATION OF THE PRESENT STATE OF KERALA
The present State of Kerala came into being on November 1,1956. It was necessitated by the following developments. The demand for linguistic reorganisation of the state was voiced by the people as far back as 1928. In the late forties of the present century, when , Indian independence was almost nearing realisation, the demand was made with greater fervour. With the formation of the Travancore-Cochin state in 1949, the first positive step in the direction of united Kerala was taken. The Raja of Cochin stepped down, in favour of the ruler of Travancore to become the Rajapramukh.
The Travancore-Cochin political scene presented a grim situation of unsteady ministries. The first popular ministry of T.K. Narayana Pillai was pulled down in 1951, followed by the Ministry of C. Kesavan. With the general elections of 1951-52, AJ. John with 44 members, of a house having a strength of 108 members, formed a ministry, with the support of the Tamil Nadu Congress. 1953 saw its expulsion. In the 1954 mid-term poll the Congress secured only 45 seats in a total of 118 members. In order to avoid the possibility of a coalition ministry by the opposition parties, the Congress offered its support to the Praja Socialist Party with 19 representatives and led by Pattom A. Thanu Pillai, to form a ministry. The Tamil Nadu Congress was a constituent member of the ruling front. The violent incidents which the Tamil Nadu Congress triggered off in the course of its agitation for the merger of the Tamil speaking areas of South Travancore with Madras, during this ministry, led to its fall. In 1955 Pan-ampilli Govinda Menon formed a Ministry, only to fall in 1956 on account of internal feuds in the party. Then President's rule, the first of its kind, was established in Kerala. It was during this spell of President's rule that the Government of India through the States Reorganisations Act of 1956 reorganised Kerala on a lingustic basis. The Tamil dominant taluks of Tovala, Agas-tiswaram, Kalkulam and Vilavancode and a chunk of Shencottah taluk were cut off from erstwhile Travancore to be merged with Tamil Nadu. Likewise the Malayalam speaking areas of the district of Malabar and the Kasaragod taluk of South Canara district were joined to the Travancore-Cochin State to form the Modern State of Kerala on November 1, 1956, with a Governor as the head of the state. The Institution of Rajapramukh as a result ceased to exist in Kerala.

History of Kerala after 1956
In 1957 the firstelections to the Kerala Legislature was held. The Communist Party of India came to power. It was headed by E.M.S. Namboodiripad. Some of the draconian legislations spearheaded by this ministry, brought on a 'liberation struggle' to throw overboard the ministry. Its leader was Mannath Padmanabha Pillai of the Nair Service Society,-who had the support of the Congress, the Praja Socialist Party, the Revolutionary Socialist Party and the Muslim League. The struggle was so grim that the Governor had to take over the administration in 1959, in pursuance of section 356 of the Constitution.
Fresh elections were held in 1960. One strange phenomenon of the new election was that it was fought by an alliance among the Congress, the Praja Socialist Party and Muslim League, against the Communist Party. The alliance won and Pattom Thanu Pillai became the Chief Minister and the speak-ership was given to the Muslim League. In 1962, the Chief Minister was appointed by the Governor of the Punjab to ease the way for R. Sankar the leader of the Congress to become the Chief Minister. In 1964, Sankar had to quit, following a non-confidence motion. 15 MLAs belonging to the Congress had defected from the party to bring about the downfall of Sankar. They formed a new party called the Kerala Congress. The midterm elections were, held in 1965 and nobody was returned with adequate majority to form the ministry. Again, the state had a fresh spell of President's Rule.
The General elections of 1967 were fought by a coalition of seven parties led by the Communists. A sweeping majority was secured by the united front and it formed a ministry under E.M. Sankara
Nambooiripad in 1967. However, it fell, paving the way for the Chief Ministership of C.Achutha Menon from 1969. After a short span of less than one year in office, the new leader chose to seek a fresh mandate from the people in 1970. In this election, a fresh alliance between the Congress and the Communist Party of India was forged to fight the polls. The new alliance secured a clear majority. The Kerala Congress also joined the ministry along with the Congress and the C.P.I. This Ministry with C. Achutha Menon at the helm, ruled for the full term of office, very unusual in Kerala politics. The elections which were due in 1976 be had to the kept in abeyance until 1977, because of the situation of emergency.
The political scenario was a little astonishing this time. The elections were fought under a new alliance of the Congress, C.P.I., Muslim League, Kerala Congress and the R.S.P. and it secured 111 seats out of 140. K.Karunakaran of the Congress assumed office as Chief Minister in 1977. But he resigned taking the resposibility for police excesses in the Rajan Case. A.K. Antony took over as Chief Minister and remained in Office up to October 1978. But when the all India situation of the Congress changed, from one of unity to a serious split, A.K. Antony tundered his resignation in defiance of the High Command's directive to support Indira Gandhi in the Chicka-magalur bye-election. Very soon under the leadership of P.K Vasudevan Nair (CPI), a new ministry assumed office on October 29,1978 with the support of the front partners. But by October 12,1979 the partners quarrelled and unseated the ministry. One more experiment of forming a new ministry was tried by C.H. Muhammed Koya. It remained in power just for a few days from October 12 to December 5,1979. President's Rule was proclaimed on December 5, 1979 and in the elections of 1980, the Left Democratic Front held by the Communist Party of India (Marxist) secured a stable majority of 93 seats out of 140 seats in the Legislature. The new ministry assumed office on January 25,1980.

After a short spell, it met with a similar fate on October 20,1981. President's Rule was again imposed. A new ministry, headed by K. Karunakaran (Congress I) came to to office and it fell like a house of cards on March 17, 1982 only to invite President's Rule.
In the General elections of 1982 the United Democratic Front secured a thin majority and formed the ministry under K.Karunakaran (Congress I) as Chief Minister on May 24,1982. Strange to say that this new ministry remained in the saddle for the full term. General elections were held in March 1987. This time the people voted the Left Democratic Front to power. E.K. Nayanar (CPM) became the Chief Minister on March 25, 1987. This period saw the emergence of a new political polarization, when the Left Democratic Front contested the elections without having any truck with any communal parties like the Kerala Congress and the Muslim League.