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Prof. George Menachery Secretary of Church History Association of India (CHAI)Applauds Pattanam Excavators
Accession date and time 14-10-2011; 11.45 AM
Prof. George Menachery Secretary of Church History Association of India (CHAI)Applauds Pattanam Excavators
Posted 15 July 2004 - 06:15 PM
Prof. George Menachery from India wrote on July 16. 2004, 00:00:
E-mail: kunjethy@yahoo.com
URL: http://www.indianchristianity.com
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Glad to see that the digs made by Dr. Shajan and Selvakumar (CHS) at Pattanam or Pathanam or Pazhnam shedding evidence though tentatively on the ancient Muziris is being widely noticed by scholars all over the world. Here one might say that even in the 16th - 17th centuries Pattanam was considered to be the ancient Muziris. This is mentioned in George Menachery, Kodungallur City of St. Thomas, 1987, and in its reprint , 2000. For exhaustive details concerning the views of ancients and moderns - both Indians and non-Indians, including Greeks, Romans,....Sangham poets, modern historians... see Chapters I and II of the book mentioned. Earlier many had asked for excavations in and around Cranganore, Mahodayapuram, Kodungallur, Mahadevarpattanam, Thiruvanchikkulam, Cheraman Paraambu etc. Anujan Achan had many decades back made some enlightened guesses and insisted on excavations. But the governments and the universities and archaeology depts. were reluctant to go forward with scientific excavations for one reason or other. We are all glad that Shajan, Selvakumar, and Gopi & co have made a beginning - and what a beginning. Congratulations!
For those who want to learn more about the history of Muziris, Muchiri, Kodungallur, Paravur, and Pattanam given below are two website pages:
http://www.indianchr.../html/Books.htm
http://www.thinkers....odungallur.html
E-mail: kunjethy@yahoo.com
URL: http://www.indianchristianity.com
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Glad to see that the digs made by Dr. Shajan and Selvakumar (CHS) at Pattanam or Pathanam or Pazhnam shedding evidence though tentatively on the ancient Muziris is being widely noticed by scholars all over the world. Here one might say that even in the 16th - 17th centuries Pattanam was considered to be the ancient Muziris. This is mentioned in George Menachery, Kodungallur City of St. Thomas, 1987, and in its reprint , 2000. For exhaustive details concerning the views of ancients and moderns - both Indians and non-Indians, including Greeks, Romans,....Sangham poets, modern historians... see Chapters I and II of the book mentioned. Earlier many had asked for excavations in and around Cranganore, Mahodayapuram, Kodungallur, Mahadevarpattanam, Thiruvanchikkulam, Cheraman Paraambu etc. Anujan Achan had many decades back made some enlightened guesses and insisted on excavations. But the governments and the universities and archaeology depts. were reluctant to go forward with scientific excavations for one reason or other. We are all glad that Shajan, Selvakumar, and Gopi & co have made a beginning - and what a beginning. Congratulations!
For those who want to learn more about the history of Muziris, Muchiri, Kodungallur, Paravur, and Pattanam given below are two website pages:
http://www.indianchr.../html/Books.htm
http://www.thinkers....odungallur.html
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