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This study is dedicated to the memory of Professor Kusuman who, despite the inconvenient moment of my first arrival in Trivandrum, generously dropped everything he was doing to help my research. Making certain that I had critical and obligatory materials, he lent me his personal copies in some instances. I treasure his discernments.
Kalathilparambil Kumaran Kusuman was born to Kumaran and Kunjulakshmi on April 27, 1943, at S. L. Puram, in the Alleppey district of the one-time princely State of Travancore. Hailing from a prominent ancestry that had made literary and cultural contributions to modern Kerala, he was orphaned at an early age and reared by his maternal uncle, S. L. Puram Sadanandan, a cultural and political figure in Kerala. After excelling at school and college, he joined the Department of History at the University of Kerala as a research scholar under the supervision of Professor T. K. Ravindran, who would later become Vice-Chancellor of Calicut University. His doctoral thesis was on “The History of Trade in Travancore (1600–1805).” In 1978, he joined the history faculty at Kerala University as lecturer. After a short period at the University of Calicut, Professor Kusuman returned to Kerala University and headed the history department there until his retirement in 2004. His published works include Slavery in Travancore, The Abstention Movement, The Extremist Movement in Kerala, English Trade in Travancore, and A History of Trade and Commerce in Travancore (1600–1805). He was the editor of the Journal of Indian History and Journal of Kerala Studies. He met an untimely death in an automobile accident on March 18, 2007, at Trivandrum.
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