HONOUR KILLINGS AND KERALA

Kerala is bestowed with lush greenery and elegant flora and fauna, which gave the title „God‟s on Country‟. The growth of the state and the advancement in the field of science and technology enhanced the range of human resource and intellect of the people. The cent- percent literacy and the unquenchable thirst for knowledge and experience helped the people soar to the differ realms of the universe to mark their trace wherever they went. The literacy helped them to react to the problems of the society and the world. The awareness about the problems in the society and the world produced quick reactions against the reverberations in the harmonious life. This awareness helped the Keralites to wipe out the evils of caste system and feudalism from the Kerala soil. Thought the glimpses of the caste consciousness sprouts from the remote nooks and corners of Kerala and is implicit in the Kerala life, the evil is eradicated from the soil with all its manifestations. Along with the eradication of the caste system many offspring of the catastrophe were nipped in the bud. Among them is the evil of honour killing. While most of the states were is chaos with the effective involvement of the Supreme Court to curb the evil Kerala was safe with the minimum number of honour killings. Question arises at the absence or minimum number of honour killings in Kerala. So, there is growing need to investigate the reasons behind this attitude. This paper tries to analyse the reasons behind the minimum number of honour killings in Kerala state.