Before highways and hashtags, Tattamangalam was already on India’s printed map. Three archival crumbs—an ad in Prabuddha Bharata (1897), an entry in the Imperial Gazetteer of India (1908), and a note in The Cochin State Manual (1911)—prove the village wasn’t just a dot. It was a small nerve-centre for books, trade, and public life. Neat, […]