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A Kavala near Velinellur, Kerala, Picture by author, 03 July 2018

A Kavala near Velinellur, Kerala, Picture by author, 03 July 2018

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Communism arrived in the south Indian state of Kerala in the early twentieth century at a time when the matrilineal systems that governed caste-Hindu relations were crumbling quickly. For a large part of the twentieth century, the Communist Party-specifically the Communist Party of India (Marxist)-played a major role in navigating Kerala society th...