Me read your note of 2nd June, 2007 and felt something informative, so is this.
In your note, your quote of EM Shankaran Namboothiri %u201Cdespised these Christians as %u201CMlechhanmar%u201D is some thing unbelievable because as your mention, %u201CSome Namboodiri families were believed to have accepted xian faith%u201D was due to the harsh thinking only of Namboothiris. In the coverage of darkness Namboodiris used to sleep to whosoever cleared the path and before dawn escaped from site. and those who objected path were removed declaring Brasht. That was the reason of fewer were accepted Christianity.
In fact Xians were lovable to Brahmans and that was the reason Mr. A.P Udayabhanu, writer, once wrote that even though least bottom level caste people who merged to Xianity people were approachable and was acceptable the things which were preached to the temple. Me try to put here about the event which Mr. A.P. Udayabhanu, from the family of Mr. T.K. Madhavan who took part in the Vaikam Satyagraha (Skhetra Praveshana Satyagraham) who was crashed by the Travancore Police and after prolonged illness himself died.
It was the festival months of Travancore, on taking harvests every Devi- Devatas visits their devotees dwellings for %u201CPara edukkal purpose%u201D, and at near about dawn the grand mothor of Komalezhuth ( Komalezhuth is the house of the ancestors of Mr. T.K. Madhavan and it locates at north west zone of Chettikulangara Devi Temple and
