Happy bicentennial to the CMS College, Kottayam, Kerala

SYRIAC WATCH: Kerala college oldest in India, set to turn 200 in February (Vinod Nedumudy, Deccan Chronicle).

Kochi: One of the most prestigious colleges in Kerala, the CMS College, Kottayam, is set to turn 200 next month, becoming the oldest Indian college.

Associate professor of Malayalam, Dr Babu Cheriyan, who has chronicled the history of the college Towards Modernity: The story of the first college in India, found references from various historians that suggest that the college was started in 1815, March with 25 students, mainly belonging to Syriac studies, and not in 1817 as widely believed.

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There's lots more on the study of Syriac in Kerala here (cf. here) and links.