TRAVANCORE ANCHAL(POST) TRAVANCORE RUPEE,AND LOCAL FOOD

BRONZE STATUE OF TRAVAN CORE KING IN FRONT OF THE OLD UNIVERSITY OFFICE BUILDING AT PALAYAM ,TRIVANDRUM CITY 1940

MOST LABOURERS THOSE DAYS ATE JUST KAPPA(CASSAVA) AND CURRY OR SIMPLE KER ALA FOOD LIKE PUTTU,APPAM ,IDI APPAM ETC IF THEY COULD AFFORD IT.DOSA AND IDDALY WERE YET TO GET THE POPULARITY AS IT HAS NOW AS THEY WERE CONSIDERED TAMIL FOOD IN MANY PLACES.BIRIYANI WAS CONSIDERED A MUSLIM SPECIALITY FOOD MAINLY FROM MALABAR AS CHRISTIANS HAD THEIR OWN METHOD OF MAKING STEWS AND FRIES.NOBODY HEARD OR EVER THOUGHT of OTHER FOODS LIKE CHINESE ,MEXICAN,ARAB ETC ETC, ARE AVAILABLE, IN OTHER PARTS OF THE WORLD .FOR US THE WORLD WAS STILL SMALL.IT WAS JUST THE OUR COUNTRY OF TRAVANCORE RULED BY OUR KING OF TRAVANCORE AND OUR NATIONAL ANTHEM OF TRAVANCORE STATE AND OUR TRAVANCORE MONEY MINTED AND USED IN OUR STATE BY OUR KINGS MINT

AND WE HAD OUR POST(CALLED ANCHAL) FOR TRAVANCORE WITH OUR POSTAGE STAMPS MADE ONLY FOR TRAVANCORE ,WE USED TO STUDY GEOGRAPHY OF TRVANCORE KINGDOM AND A LITTLE OF OTHER PLACES AND OUR HISTORY BOOKS WERE FULL OF THE HISTORY AND VALOR OF OUR KINGS OF KERALA ,TRAVANCORE,COCHIN,MALABAR AND A LITTLE ABOUT BRITISH INDIA AND THE WORLD

OUR FOOD WAS OURS ONLY AND OUR ARTS AND CRAFTS WERE OURS MUCH DIFF FROM OTHER PARTS OF INDIA .EVERY THING WAS SPECIAL FOR TRAVANCORE AND OUR WORLD VIEW WAS ALSO SMALL

TRAVANCORE RUPEE WAS VALUED A LITTLE LESS THAN INDIAN RUPEE ISSUED BY BRITAIN .IT WAS 16 "CASSU" TO MAKE ONE CHAKRAM AND 28 CHAKRAMS TO MAKE ONE TRAVANCORE RUPEE AND IT WAS 28( AND HALF CHAKRAM ,MORE COSTLY) FOR AN INDIAN (BRITISH)RUPEE which was dividedinto 16 annas for 1 rupee and 12 paise for 1 anna.IT WAS DIFFICULT FOR US IN LOWER CLASSES TO KNOW ALL THIS AND UNDERSTAND PLUS WE HAD TO STUDY THE COINAGE OF BRITISH IN BRITAIN ,WHICH MADE IT MORE DIFFICULT ,ONE BRITISH POUND EQUAL 20 SHILLINGS AND ONE SHILLING EQAL 12 PENCE ,THEN TO INTER CONVERT BRITISH RIPEES INTO TRAVANCORE MONEY AND TRAVANCORES RUPEES INTO POUND STERLING MADE US ALL EXPERT IN MONEY EXCHANGE AT AN EARLY AGE

I WANT TO POINT OUT THAT IT WAS "CASSU" OF TRAVANCORE, WHICH LATER BECAME "CASH" FOR BRITISH,BRITISH HAD PRONONCIATION DIFFICULTY TO MENTION INDIAN NAMES

SOME OF THE MISPRONUNCIATIONS MADE BY ENGLISH WHILE IN INDIA:- KALIGHAT>>CALCUTTA

THIRUVITHAAMCOOR(KINGDOM)>>TRAVANCORE/THIRU ANANTHAPURAM CITY >>TRIVANDRUM CITY

COCHI(KINGDOM)>>COCHIN WE THE INDIANS USED TO MAKE FUN OF OUR BRITISH RULERS BEHIND THEIR BACK ABOUT THEIR DIFFICULTY TO SPELL WORDS