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The Leaping Vyaali

December 29, 2016

Deepthi Murali walks around Napier Museum looking for her favorite vernacular-colonial architectural feature--the vyaali (mythical beast).

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In Architecture Tags Napier Museum, Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram, Trivandrum, India, Museum, Architecture, RF Chisolm, Robert Chisolm, Maharaja of Travancore, Travancore, JSTOR, Indo-Saracenic, vernacular, Colonialism, Imperialism
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