Plathottam

03/06/2025

Annual meeting Plathottam Kudumbayogam 1992

06/04/2023

55th YEAR of DEMISE

Looka Mathai Plathottam,(1888-1968)
1) The person who introduced homoeopathy to Athirampuzha 1920 First Homoeopathic practitioner in Athirampuzha, Those days he used to bring Homoeo Medicine from Calcutta for treatment.

2) Was the Managing Director Plathottathil and Company LTD. (1915-1965)
(a public limited company which was registered according to the norms of East India Company, used to pay income tax to British government and dealt with cotton handlooms in a large scale)

3) Was the Managing Partner St Mary's Press Athirampuzha, ( in the year 1930) and published many books including Varthamanappusthakam. (This entitles as the first travelogue in any Indian language)

4) The man behind bringing electricity to Athirampuzha, bearing all expenses himself for converting his coal/steam operated power loom into electric in his weaving establishment

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varthamana_Pusthakam

24/03/2023

An old receipt from the date 1941, which shows Athirampuzha PLATHOTTAM kudumbayogam has got such an organised structure in the past and it used to lend money to fraternity members with gold security

21/01/2022

Old Company Check (1930) - Plathottathil Public LTD

a public limited company which was registered according to the norms of East India Company, used to pay income tax to British government and dealt with cotton handlooms in a large scale

15/12/2021

22/12/2018

Kerala History Congress Published a book on Varthamana Pusthakam (വർത്തമാന പുസ്തകം ഒരു സമീക്ഷ ) in the year 2012.

Some pages uploaded below

10/07/2018

ഒരു പഴയ manuscript

ഉദ്ദേശം 80- 100വര്ഷം പഴക്കം കാണും. പഴയ മലയാളം ലിപി.
വായിച്ചു മനസിലാക്കാൻ പറ്റുനില..

പ്രിന്റിങ് നമ്മുടെ നാട്ടിൽ അത്ര പ്രചാരം കിട്ടുന്നതിന് മുമ്പുള്ള കാലഘട്ടം അന്നെന്നു അനുമാനിക്കുന്നു..

05/05/2018

An old recipt- Plathottathil Public Limited. Athirampuzha.

03/05/2018

Life history of our Grand Father. Looka Mathai Plathottam.(1884-1968)

Varthamanapusthakam Puthupadanagal a book published by Paremakkal Govarnadhor Trust Pala

Some of the pages are attached

02/11/2016

Pages of Official Gazette of Travancore Govt, which printed 90 years back.

21/08/2016

Varthamanappusthakam is a Malayalam travelogue written by Paremmakkal Thoma Kathanar which is regarded as the first travelogue in any Indian language. It was written in the 18th century but then forgotten, being re-discovered in 1935 and first printed in Malayalam in 1936 by Luka Mathai Plathottam at Athirampuzha St Marys Press in the year 1936.

Varthamanapusthakam postulates that the foundation of Indian nationalism rests on the basic principle that India should be ruled by Indians. Long before the debates on nationalism shaking the intellectual circles of Europe, Asia, and Africa, Thoma Kathanar vehemently argued that foreigners should be kept away from India and that it should be ruled only by Indians gives the history of a journey undertaken by the author along with Mar Joseph Kariattil from Malabar Coast (modern day Kerala) to Rome via Lisbon and back.The manuscript of the book is kept at the St Thomas Christian Museum in Kochi.

The history of travelogues in Malayalam is short but exciting and absorbing. The first work in the genre Varthamapusthakam was written by P. Thoma Kathanar (1736–99) in the latter part of the eighteenth century but its existence was totally forgotten by later generations. It was discovered in 1935 and was printed next year. Sankaran Namboothiri informs that Kathanar accompanied K. Yausep Malpan in his journey from Parur to Rome. They went by foot up to Madras from where they sailed. They took along route via Cape of Good Hope, South America and Lisbon. The voyage lasted nearly eight years." It is-certainly one of the most valuable travel accounts available in any Indian language.