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[[Image:Kollam (78).JPG|150px|Kerala]]
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'''[[Kerala]]''' is a [[States_and_territories_of_India|state]] on the southwestern tropical [[Malabar Coast]] of [[India]]. To its east and northeast, Kerala borders [[Tamil Nadu]] and [[Karnataka]]; to its west and south lie the [[Indian Ocean]] islands of [[Lakshadweep]] and the [[Maldives]], respectively. Kerala also envelops [[Mahé, Puducherry|Mahé]], a coastal exclave of the [[Union Territory]] of [[Puducherry (union territory)|Puducherry]]. In prehistory, Kerala's rainforests and wetlands — then thick with malaria-bearing mosquitoes and man-eating [[Bengal tiger|tigers]] — were largely avoided by [[Neolithic]] humans. More than a millennium of overseas contact and trade culminated in four centuries of struggle between and among multiple [[colonialism|colonial]] powers and native Keralite states. Kerala was [[States Reorganisation Act|granted statehood]] on November 1, 1956. Radical social reforms begun in the 19th century by the kingdoms of [[Perumpadapu Swaroopam|Kochi]] and [[Travancore]] — and spurred by such leaders as [[Narayana Guru]] and [[Chattampi Swamikal]] — were continued by post-[[Indian Independence Movement|Independence]] governments, making Kerala among the [[Third World]]'s longest-lived, healthiest, and most literate regions. Kerala's 31.8 million people now live under a stable [[Democratic socialism|democratic socialist]] political system and exhibit unusually equitable gender relations. ([[Kerala|'''more...''']])

Portal:India/SC Summary/SA Kerala - Revision history

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