Keralolpatti: the Origin of Malabar

Mangalore: Stolz & Reuter, Basel Mission Press, 1868. — 110 p.Кералолпатти: происхождение земли Керальской (на малаяльск. яз.)The Keralolpatti, or Keralolpathi (Malayalam: കേരളോലപതതി) is a Malayalam work that deals with the origin of the land of Kerala. Shungunny Menon ascribes the authorship of this work to Thunchaththu Ramanujan Ezhuthachan, a 17th-cen. scholar of the Malabar region of India. The Keralolpatti is mostly an expansion from an earlier Sanskrit work known as the Kerala Mahatmayam. That work is classed among the Hindu Puranas as an Upa Purana (or sub Purana) of the Bhoogola Purana.
The Keralolpatti covers the ancestry of the Namboodiri Brahmins and other castes of Kerala and is sometimes called the "Kerala Ulpathy". While the "Kerala Mahatmayam" deals with the origin of Kerala and its people alone, the Keralolpatti gives a history of Kerala down to the modern age, including reference to the British in Kerala.