Joy: No need to read Malayalam texts. Start with …

Comment posted ‘Jornada of Dom Alexis de Menezes: A Portuguese account of the Sixteenth century Malabar’ edited by Dr. Pius Malekandathil by John Mathew.

Joy:

No need to read Malayalam texts. Start with Mackenzie, Logan and Burnell, and then look at their list of references, and go through them. You’ll learn far more than the crooked partial histories written by the (often lazy) Kerala pseudo-scholars, most of whom rely on third party sources and “oral tradition”—the latter of which is almost completely useless.

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