Monday, October 22, 2007

Festivals of Kerala - Kerala Piravi














Kerala Piravi (Kerala Foundation Day) this is event that is organized to commemorate Kerala’s recognition as a state. The birth of the state of Kerala - the unification of Travancore, Cochin and Malabar The state of Kerala was created by the States Reorganisation Act on November 1, 1956.

Malayalis from around the world celebrate November 1st as Kerala Piravi which in Malayalam means the 'birth of Kerala'. Social reforms enacted in the late 19th century by Cochin and Travancore were expanded upon by post-independence governments, making Kerala among the Third World's longest-lived, healthiest, most gender-equitable, and most literate regions.

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