{"id":100685,"date":"2022-11-19T11:23:38","date_gmt":"2022-11-19T05:53:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/?p=100685"},"modified":"2022-11-19T12:38:22","modified_gmt":"2022-11-19T07:08:22","slug":"popular-historian-and-accessible-history-manu-s-pillai-at-klf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/popular-historian-and-accessible-history-manu-s-pillai-at-klf\/","title":{"rendered":"Popular Historian and Accessible History: Manu S. Pillai at KLF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-100686 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/manu-s.-pillai.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"669\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/manu-s.-pillai.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/manu-s.-pillai-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/manu-s.-pillai-768x401.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/manu-s.-pillai-600x314.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Manu S. Pillai, popular historian and researcher, will participate in the sixth edition of the Kerala Literature Festival in 2023. Through his books, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Ivory Throne: Chronicles of the House of Travancore<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rebel Sultans: The Deccan from Khilji to Shivaji<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Courtesan, the Mahatma &amp; the Italian Brahmin: Tales from Indian History,<\/span><\/i> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">he inspired young crowds to read history. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">False Allies: India&#8217;s Maharajahs in the Age of Ravi Varma<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Pillai&#8217;s most recent book, reassesses the erstwhile portrayal of Indian princely kingdoms and maharajahs and offers a new perspective. The Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puraskar was awarded for his first book, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Ivory Throne: Chronicles of the House of Travancore<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, in 2017.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kerala Literature Festival, the second-largest literature festival in Asia, will be held on the Kozhikode beach from January 12\u201315, 2023. The four-day festival features more than 500 speakers and authors from all over the world. The festival is organised by the DC Kizhakemuri Foundation with the support of the Government of Kerala.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The much-awaited gala for literary enthusiasts is open for registration; <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.keralaliteraturefestival.com\/registration_all.aspx\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">click here to register<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manu S. Pillai, popular historian and researcher, will participate in the sixth edition of the Kerala Literature Festival in 2023. Through his books, The Ivory Throne: Chronicles of the House of Travancore, Rebel Sultans: The Deccan from Khilji to Shivaji, and, The Courtesan, the Mahatma &amp; the Italian Brahmin: Tales from Indian History, he inspired [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":100686,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2171,1],"tags":[2218,101,2216,282,2219],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100685"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100685"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100690,"href":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100685\/revisions\/100690"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}