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enjith was up early
this morning he was he carried the thoughts from yesterday with
him
As he sat down In
front of his laptop and surfed the web regarding the era of landlordism
In Kerala he stumbled
upon the Wikipedia page that stated
about his family
that said that
They had
owned over 200 Sq. Klm on the frontiers of eranadu and Cochin then why he wondered
He was not told about this matter.
he closed his
laptop and made his way
determined to find out
if he was really part of
the family that he had
read about in
the web.
As he made his way for the day’s barkefast he
listed out the people who he
could ask about the history of the
family
He could not ask his grandfather because she would know not much
Then there was his
grandmother but that would not help
because she was English ah yes
He was partly
of English descent his grandmother also belonged to an
aristocrat family he
could not get the name to come
to him but put it aside
for a later date now the only one who was let was his granddad's mother .
For that he had to go
to Thripunithura in the erstwhile
Cochin state and he was supposed to
go back to Missouri next Thursday.
In the mean time he reached
for his Great granddad’s diary and sat down to read it
Date: 26/9/1919
Dearest dairy,
There is talk of my self-taking the reins of
the family
The Honorable
collector of the district had made a visit on behalf of the marquees Willingdon
The fact that I had
had to take the responsibility of the titles of the estate
Along with titles of my
dearest father
Those are really big shoes to fill and I pray to the gods and
ancestors to help me full fill this enormous task
Regards
S R Nair
The
very next day Renjith called on
his close friend
at the state divisional
archive Kozhikode or
Kalikod as Renjith Like to call it this State Divisional Archive clerk
Who referenced him to
look up the Cannonore district manual there was only one problem though
The said book was
currently out of print and he had to Visit the archives to see the same
So he cancelled all
his engagements and made his way to Kannur
As he entered the dusty
environs of the archives he was lost in thoughts about his great grand dad
Whom in a way he was
about to meet, this mysterious landlord of colonial Malabar who also happens
To be his relative
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