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From Kerala to Singapore

Authors: Anitha Devi Pillai & Puva Arumugam
Published: 2016

Provides stories of Malayalees who migrated from Kerala to Singapore from the 1900s all the way to the early 2000s. It is available from the National Library.

From the Holy Mountain

Author: William Dalrymple
Published: 3rd Edition in 2012.

In the spring of 587 AD, two monks set off on an extraordinary journey that takes them across the entire Byzantine world - from the shores of the Bosphorous to the sand dunes of Egypt. A travelouge providing the history, spirituality and the fractured politics of the Middle East. It provides an insight to the early Syrian Christians.

Privileged Minorities

Author: Thomas, Sonjara; Sivaramakrishnan, K.; Kaimal, Padma; A., Yang, Anand
Published: Seattle, 2018

Although demographically a minority in Kerala, India, Syrian Christians are not a subordinated community. They are caste, race, and class privileged, and have long benefitted, both economically and socially, from their privileged position. Focusing on Syrian Christian women, Sonja Thomas explores how this community illuminates larger questions of multiple oppressions, privilege and subordination, racialization, and religion and secularism in India.

A Survey of Kerala History

Author: Prof. a. Sreedhara Menon
Published: 2010

A Survey of Kerala History by A. Sreedhara Menon, eminent historian, academic and Padma Bhushan Awardee, is one of the most widely-read compendiums on the social, cultural and political history of Kerala.