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@ asyncmind
2025-06-15 00:50:47
🔥 Kerala vs Samurai Japan – The Epic You Never Got Taught 🔥
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You’ve watched the Englishman in feudal Japan saga—clan wars, sword fights, betrayal, honor, tea, and steel.
But did you know Kerala had its own version?
Older, bloodier, and completely ignored by mainstream history.
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🥷 1. Warrior Caste
Japan: Samurai, bushido, seppuku
Kerala: Nairs, kalaripayattu, chaver suicide squads
Both trained in ancient martial arts. Both bound by clan loyalty and ritualized violence.
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🏯 2. Clan Wars
Japan: Sengoku Jidai – Tokugawa, Oda, Takeda
Kerala: Zamorin, Travancore, Cochin, Kolathiri
Endless shifting alliances, feuds, backstabbing nobles, and civil wars over spice, trade, and pride.
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🛡️ 3. Power Plays
Japan: Rise of the Shogun
Kerala: Rise of Marthanda Varma – kingmaker, reformer, destroyer of feudal lords
Defeated the Dutch East India Company in the Battle of Colachel (1741) – let that sink in.
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⚓ 4. Foreign Interference
Japan: Arrival of Portuguese and English traders
Kerala: Portuguese, Dutch, French, British—all played kingmaker
A real-life drama of colonial chess where the locals sometimes won.
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👑 5. Culture & Code
Japan: Tea ceremony, zen, bushido
Kerala: Ayurveda, tantra, matrilineal dynasties, temple economies
Same depth. Different flavor.
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📚 Want to go deeper?
Historians to check out:
K. M. Panikkar – “Malabar and the Portuguese”
M. G. S. Narayanan – on Perumals and temple politics
William Logan – “Malabar Manual”
Veluthat Kesavan – deep dive into early Kerala statecraft
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💣 TL;DR:
Kerala was a samurai film waiting to be made—
but colonial history wrote us out of the script.
Time to bring it back.
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🧵#HiddenHistory #SamuraiOfTheSouth #KeralaWarfare #DecolonizeHistory #SpiceWars #NairsNotSamurai #Kalaripayattu #SouthAsianEpic #IndianHistoryMatters #NetflixMissedThis #BattleOfColachel #TravancoreVsTheWorld
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