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An Ancient Kalari in South Kerala: Cheerappanchira
// June 26th, 2011 // 3 Comments » // Cultural PoliticsKalari is a traditional school of learning, martial arts and indigenous medicine in Kerala. Though its dominant, Sanskritized and violent applications by the Savarna or upper castes are linked to the militarization and feudalization of Kerala during the middle ages that established the Savarna high culture and hegemony in Kerala; its popular and Avarna or [...]






