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K.K.N. Kurup says the cultural heritage of Kannur is still actively present in contemporary times

CONSERVING CULTURE: Historian K.K.N. Kurup inaugurating the history seminar at Krishna Menon Memorial Government Women's College in Kannur on Saturday.

KANNUR: Historian and former Calicut University Vice-Chancellor K.K.N. Kurup has said that the cultural heritage of Kannur starting from the ancient Sangha period is still actively present in contemporary times.

Inaugurating the two-day seminar on the history of Kannur organised by the district panchayat at the Krishna Menon Memorial Government Women's College here on Saturday, Dr. Kurup said that all new forms of colonial aggression could be resisted if the cultural legacy were strengthened. He said that the Kolathiri House was the oldest dynasty in the world as it had an unbroken history of 1,500 years.

District Panchayat president K.K. Narayanan presided over the inaugural function. T.P. Indira of the History Department of the college and district panchayat secretary K.M. Raghuraman were present at the function.

As many as 19 papers were presented in two sessions on ancient political, social and economic history and on cultural history on the first day of the seminar. A paper presented by M.P. Kumaran on Mooshaka Vamsha said that the Mooshaka Vamsha had emerged as a community of tribal people. Another paper by Keecheri Raghavan said that agricultural servility in the region started with the Brahmin aggression.

Kannur had been a centre of horse trade and place of commerce before the colonial era, according to Vijayalakshmi in her paper. Mujeeb Rahman in his paper sought to delineate the change in local trade by the trade practices of the East India Company.

The seminar would conclude on Sunday.

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