Subject(s): Kerala - Geography, rivers, mountains, ocean, climate, biodiversity, origin of the names like Kerala,malabar -- Historical artefacts of ancient Kerala, Description of Kerala by Chinese, Arab, European Travellers, strikes, palace, ancient coins -- Evidence of ancient homes in Kerala -- Kerala's Earliest foreign connections : Spice trade, Arabs and Phinishyan, Greeks and Romans,Indo-China trade, Kerala's navel force, old ports of Kerala, -- Kerala in Sangakalam, Cheras, Chollas, pandyas -- Religions in Kerala - Buddhism, Jainism, Christianity,Jews, Islam, Aryas -- Aayerajyam, Mahodhayapooram, Venad, Kollathunad and Cochin, Samuthiri's of Kozhikod, Small princely states -- Portuguese period,Vasco da Gama, Dutch period, Kerala's Social conditions of 16th and 17th centuries -- Marthanda Varma and Dharma Raja, History of Cochin, Maysor attack, British Malabar, Political parties, Kerala society in 18th and 19th century, modern education, Sree Narayana guru, Ayankali, literature and art