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Kottayam

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Kottayam is a municipal town in the Indian state of Kerala. [1]

100 relations: Alappuzha district, Alluvium, Ambalappuzha, Arundhati Roy, Aymanam, Basketball, Benjamin Bailey (missionary), Bharatanatyam, British Raj, Buddhism, Carnatic music, Caste system in India, Census, Changanassery, Chera dynasty, Christian, Christian mission, Church Mission Society, City, CMS College Kottayam, Cuisine of Kerala, DC Books, Deepika (newspaper), Deshabhimani, District Collector (India), Drainage basin, Dutch India, English language, Equator, Ernakulam district, Female, Hindu, Hindu mythology, Human sex ratio, Humidity, Idukki district, India, Indian National Congress, Indian Standard Time, Jainism, John Munro, 9th of Teaninich, Kerala, Kerala Lalithakala Akademi, Kottayam (Lok Sabha constituency), Kottayam district, Kottayam Pushpanath, Kottayam railway station, Kuchipudi, Kuriakose Elias Chavara, Labour India, ..., Latex, List of districts in India, Madhyamam Daily, Mahatma Gandhi, Malayala Manorama, Malayalam, Male, Mangalam, Mangalam Publications, Margamkali, Marthanda Varma, Mathrubhumi, Meenachil River, Mohiniyattam, Monsoon, Moolam Thirunal, Municipalities of Kerala, Muslim, Muttathu Varkey, Natural rubber, Nehru Stadium, Kottayam, Noah's Ark, Odanad, Official language, Pala Narayanan Nair, Pathanamthitta district, Portuguese India, Postal Index Number, Presidencies and provinces of British India, Rajiv Gandhi International Indoor Stadium, Kottayam, Ramayyan Dalawa, Rubber Board, Sikh, Spice, States and union territories of India, The God of Small Things, The Reverend, Thiruvananthapuram, Thiruvanchoor Radhakrishnan, Tourism in Kerala, Travancore, Travel literature, Unni R., Untouchability, Urban area, Vaikom, Vaikom Satyagraha, Vembanad, Western Ghats, Windward and leeward. Expand index (50 more) »

Alappuzha district

Alappuzha is one of the 14 districts in the state of Kerala in India.

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Alluvium

Alluvium (from the Latin alluvius, from alluere, "to wash against") is loose, unconsolidated (not cemented together into a solid rock) soil or sediments, which has been eroded, reshaped by water in some form, and redeposited in a non-marine setting.

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Ambalappuzha

Ambalappuzha is a small town in the Alappuzha district of Kerala state, south India.

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Arundhati Roy

Suzanna Arundhati Roy (born 24 November 1961) is an Indian author best known for her novel The God of Small Things (1997), which won the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 1997 and became the biggest-selling book by a non-expatriate Indian author.

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Aymanam

Aymanam is a village in the Kottayam District of Kerala, India It is about 4 km from the railway station in Kottayam along the road to Parippu, and 85 km from the Cochin International Airport.

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Basketball

Basketball is a team sport played on a rectangular court.

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Benjamin Bailey (missionary)

Benjamin Bailey (Dewsbury, November 1791 - 3 April 1871 in Sheinton, Shropshire, England) was a British Church Mission Society missionary in Kerala for 34 years.

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Bharatanatyam

Bharatanatyam (Tamil: "பரதநாட்டியம்"), is a major genre of Indian classical dance that originated in Tamil Nadu.

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British Raj

The British Raj (from rāj, literally, "rule" in Hindustani) was the rule by the British Crown in the Indian subcontinent between 1858 and 1947.

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Buddhism

Buddhism is the world's fourth-largest religion with over 520 million followers, or over 7% of the global population, known as Buddhists.

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Carnatic music

Carnatic music, Karnāṭaka saṃgīta or Karnāṭaka saṅgītam is a system of music commonly associated with southern India, including the modern Indian states of Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Karnataka, Kerala, and Tamil Nadu, as well as Sri Lanka.

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Caste system in India

The caste system in India is the paradigmatic ethnographic example of caste.

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Census

A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring and recording information about the members of a given population.

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Changanassery

Changanasserry is a municipal town in Kottayam district in the state of Kerala, India.

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Chera dynasty

The Cheras were the ruling dynasty of the present-day state of Kerala and to a lesser extent, parts of Tamil Nadu in South India.

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Christian

A Christian is a person who follows or adheres to Christianity, an Abrahamic, monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.

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Christian mission

A Christian mission is an organized effort to spread Christianity.

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Church Mission Society

The Church Mission Society (CMS), formerly in Britain and currently in Australia and New Zealand known as the Church Missionary Society, is a mission society working with the Anglican Communion and Protestant Christians around the world.

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City

A city is a large human settlement.

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CMS College Kottayam

The CMS College (CMS College Kottayam) is one of the first Western-style college in India.

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Cuisine of Kerala

The cuisine of Kerala, a state in the south of India, is linked to its history, geography, demography and culture.

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DC Books

DC Books is the largest publisher in Kerala, the leading publisher of books in Malayalam, and one of the ten biggest publishers in India.

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Deepika (newspaper)

Deepika, a Malayalam language newspaper, is one of the oldest newspapers published in India.

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Deshabhimani

Deshabhimani is a Malayalam newspaper and the organ of the Kerala State Committee of the Communist Party of India (Marxist).

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District Collector (India)

A District Collector, often abbreviated to Collector, is an Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer in charge of revenue collection and administration of a district in India.

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Drainage basin

A drainage basin is any area of land where precipitation collects and drains off into a common outlet, such as into a river, bay, or other body of water.

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Dutch India

Dutch India consisted of the settlements and trading posts of the Dutch East India Company on the Indian subcontinent.

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English language

English is a West Germanic language that was first spoken in early medieval England and is now a global lingua franca.

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Equator

An equator of a rotating spheroid (such as a planet) is its zeroth circle of latitude (parallel).

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Ernakulam district

Ernakulam is a district of Kerala, India situated in the central part of that state.

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Female

Female (♀) is the sex of an organism, or a part of an organism, that produces non-mobile ova (egg cells).

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Hindu

Hindu refers to any person who regards themselves as culturally, ethnically, or religiously adhering to aspects of Hinduism.

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Hindu mythology

Hindu mythology are mythical narratives found in Hindu texts such as the Vedic literature, epics like Mahabharata and Ramayana, the Puranas, the regional literatures Sangam literature and Periya Puranam.

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Human sex ratio

In anthropology and demography, the human sex ratio is the ratio of males to females in a population.

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Humidity

Humidity is the amount of water vapor present in the air.

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Idukki district

Idukki is one of the 14 districts of Kerala state, India, created on 26January 1972.

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India

India (IAST), also called the Republic of India (IAST), is a country in South Asia.

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Indian National Congress

The Indian National Congress (INC, often called Congress Party) is a broadly based political party in India.

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Indian Standard Time

Indian Standard Time (IST) is the time observed throughout India, with a time offset of UTC+05:30.

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Jainism

Jainism, traditionally known as Jain Dharma, is an ancient Indian religion.

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John Munro, 9th of Teaninich

General John Munro (June 1778 – 25 January 1858) of the H.E.I.C.S, 9th of Teaninich was a Scottish/British soldier and statesman who had great success in India.

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Kerala

Kerala is a state in South India on the Malabar Coast.

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Kerala Lalithakala Akademi

Kerala Lalithakala Academy for Fine Arts is an autonomous body which was established in 1962 to promote art and artistic heritage, based at Thrissur in Kerala.

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Kottayam (Lok Sabha constituency)

Kottayam is a Lok Sabha constituency in Kerala.

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Kottayam district

Kottayam is one of the 14 districts in the state of Kerala, India.

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Kottayam Pushpanath

Pushpanathan Pillai, better known by the pseudonym Kottayam Pushpanath (കോട്ടയം പുഷ്പനാഥ്), was a prolific Malayali author most noted for his detective novels in Malayalam language.

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Kottayam railway station

Kottayam railway station is located in Kottayam, Kerala state, India.

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Kuchipudi

Kuchipudi is one of the eight major Indian classical dances.

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Kuriakose Elias Chavara

Saint Kuriakose Elias Chavara, C.M.I. was an Indian Catholic priest and social reformer.

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Labour India

Labour India Publications Limited is an educational publisher based in Marangattupally, Kerala, India.

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Latex

Latex is a stable dispersion (emulsion) of polymer microparticles in an aqueous medium.

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List of districts in India

A district (zilā) is an administrative division of an Indian state or territory.

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Madhyamam Daily

Madhyamam (meaning Medium) is a Malayalam newspaper published from Kerala, India, since 1987.

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Mahatma Gandhi

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948) was an Indian activist who was the leader of the Indian independence movement against British rule.

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Malayala Manorama

Malayala Manorama is a morning newspaper, in Malayalam language, published from Kottayam, Kerala, India by Malayala Manorama Company Limited, Headed by Mammen Mathew.It was first published as a weekly on 22 March 1890, and currently has a readership of over 20 million (with a circulation base of over 2.1 million copies).

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Malayalam

Malayalam is a Dravidian language spoken across the Indian state of Kerala by the Malayali people and it is one of 22 scheduled languages of India.

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Male

A male (♂) organism is the physiological sex that produces sperm.

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Mangalam

Mangalam is a census town in Coimbatore district in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.

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Mangalam Publications

Mangalam Publications (India) Private Limited, is a publishing company in Kottayam, Kerala in India.

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Margamkali

Margamkali is an Indian group dance originating from Kerala, practiced by the Saint Thomas Christians who trace their origins to the evangelistic activity of Thomas the Apostle in the 1st century.

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Marthanda Varma

Marthanda Varma (born Anizham Thirunal Marthanda Varma; 1705 – 7 July 1758) was ruler of the southern Indian state of Travancore from 1729 until his death in 1758.

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Mathrubhumi

Mathrubhumi is a Malayalam newspaper that is published from Kerala, India.

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Meenachil River

The Meenachil (Malayalam: മീനച്ചിലാർ) River flows through the heart of Kottayam district of Kerala state, India.

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Mohiniyattam

Mohiniyattam, also spelled Mohiniattam (മോഹിനിയാട്ടം), is one of two classical dances of India that developed and remain popular in the state of Kerala.

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Monsoon

Monsoon is traditionally defined as a seasonal reversing wind accompanied by corresponding changes in precipitation, but is now used to describe seasonal changes in atmospheric circulation and precipitation associated with the asymmetric heating of land and sea.

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Moolam Thirunal

Mulam Thirunal Rama Varma was the ruling Maharajah of the Indian state of Travancore between 1885 and 1924, succeeding his uncle Maharajah Visakham Thirunal (1880–1885).

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Municipalities of Kerala

Municipalities are the urban local governments that deal with civic functions and local development functions in the municipal area.

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Muslim

A Muslim (مُسلِم) is someone who follows or practices Islam, a monotheistic Abrahamic religion.

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Muttathu Varkey

Muttathu Varkey (മുട്ടത്തുവര്‍ക്കി) (28 April 1913 - 28 May 1989) was a Malayalam novelist, short story writer, and poet from Kerala state, South India.

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Natural rubber

Natural rubber, also called India rubber or caoutchouc, as initially produced, consists of polymers of the organic compound isoprene, with minor impurities of other organic compounds, plus water.

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Nehru Stadium, Kottayam

Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Kottayam, Kerala.

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Noah's Ark

Noah's Ark (תיבת נח; Biblical Hebrew: Tevat Noaḥ) is the vessel in the Genesis flood narrative (Genesis chapters 6–9) by which God spares Noah, his family, and a remnant of all the world's animals from a world-engulfing flood.

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Odanad

Odanad (ഓടനാട്, ōṭānāṭŭ, also known as Onattukara, Onad, Kayamkulam, Kallikoilon and Chirava Svaroopam) was a feudal state in late medieval Kerala.

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Official language

An official language is a language that is given a special legal status in a particular country, state, or other jurisdiction.

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Pala Narayanan Nair

Mahakavi Pala Narayanan Nair (പാലാ നാരായണന്‍ നായര്‍) (11 December 1911 – 11 June 2008) was an Indian poet.

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Pathanamthitta district

Pathanamthitta District is a district in the southern part of Kerala, India.

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Portuguese India

The State of India (Estado da Índia), also referred as the Portuguese State of India (Estado Português da Índia, EPI) or simply Portuguese India (Índia Portuguesa), was a state of the Portuguese Overseas Empire, founded six years after the discovery of a sea route between Portugal and the Indian Subcontinent to serve as the governing body of a string of Portuguese fortresses and colonies overseas.

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Postal Index Number

A Postal Index Number or PIN or PIN code is a code in the post office numbering or post code system used by India Post, the Indian postal administration.

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Presidencies and provinces of British India

The Provinces of India, earlier Presidencies of British India and still earlier, Presidency towns, were the administrative divisions of British governance in the subcontinent.

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Rajiv Gandhi International Indoor Stadium, Kottayam

Rajiv Gandhi Indoor Stadium is a multi-purpose sports complex in Kottayam, Kerala, India.

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Ramayyan Dalawa

Ramayyan (ராமய்யன், രാമയ്യൻ; ?January 1756)) was the Dewan of Travancore state, India, during 1737 and 1756 and was responsible for the consolidation and expansion of that kingdom after the defeat of the Dutch at the 1741 Battle of Colachel during the reign of Maharajah Marthanda Varma, the creator of modern Travancore.

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Rubber Board

The Rubber Board is a statutory body constituted by the Government of India, under the Rubber Act 1947, for the overall development of the rubber industry in the country.

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Sikh

A Sikh (ਸਿੱਖ) is a person associated with Sikhism, a monotheistic religion that originated in the 15th century based on the revelation of Guru Nanak.

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Spice

A spice is a seed, fruit, root, bark, or other plant substance primarily used for flavoring, coloring or preserving food.

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States and union territories of India

India is a federal union comprising 29 states and 7 union territories, for a total of 36 entities.

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The God of Small Things

The God of Small Things (1996) is the debut novel of Indian writer Arundhati Roy.

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The Reverend

The Reverend is an honorific style most often placed before the names of Christian clergy and ministers.

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Thiruvananthapuram

Thiruvananthapuram, also known as Trivandrum, is the capital and the largest city of the Indian state of Kerala.

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Thiruvanchoor Radhakrishnan

Thiruvanchoor Radhakrishnan (Malayalam:തിരുവഞ്ചൂര്‍ രാധാകൃഷ്ണന്‍) (born 26 December 1949) is an Indian politician.

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Tourism in Kerala

Kerala, a state situated on the tropical Malabar Coast of southwestern India, is one of the most popular tourist destinations in the country.

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Travancore

The Kingdom of Travancore was an Indian kingdom from 1729 until 1949.

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Travel literature

The genre of travel literature encompasses outdoor literature, guide books, nature writing, and travel memoirs.

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Unni R.

Jayachandran Parameswaran Nair (born on 12 April 1971), better known by his stage name Unni R., is an Indian short-story writer and screenwriter, who is known for his work in Malayalam literature and Malayalam cinema.

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Untouchability

Untouchability is the practice of ostracising a group by segregating them from the mainstream by social custom or legal mandate.

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Urban area

An urban area is a human settlement with high population density and infrastructure of built environment.

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Vaikom

Vaikom is a capital town of Vaikom Taluk, situated in the northwest of Kottayam district in the state of Kerala, India.

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Vaikom Satyagraha

Vaikom Satyagraha (1924–25) was a satyagraha (movement) in Travancore, India (now part of Kerala) against untouchability in Hindu society.

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Vembanad

Vembanad (Vembanad Kayal or Vembanad Kol) is the longest lake in India, and the largest lake in the state of Kerala.

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Western Ghats

Western Ghats also known as Sahyadri (Benevolent Mountains) is a mountain range that runs parallel to the western coast of the Indian peninsula, located entirely in India.

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Windward and leeward

Windward is the direction upwind from the point of reference, alternatively the direction from which the wind is coming.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kottayam

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