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    Early life

    Neelakandan Pillai was born into an affluent Hindu Nair family in Nattalam in Travancore (present-day Kanyakumari District) on 23 April 1712. His father, Vasudevan Namboodiri, who was from Kayamkulam in … See more

    Conversion to Christianity

    In 1741, Captain Eustachius De Lannoy, a Dutch naval commander, was sent on command of a naval expedition by the Dutch East India Company with the objective of capturing and establishing a trading port at … See more

    Baptism

    On Devasahayam's acceptance of the Christian faith, he was baptized at the Roman Catholic sub-parish church at the Vadakkankulam village (in the present-day Tirunelveli District of Tamil Nadu), where the Jesuits had … See more

    Orders based on accusations and charges

    Church chroniclers say that the Brahmin chief priest of the kingdom, the feudal lords, members of the royal household and the Nair community brought false charges on Devasahayam to the Dewan, Ramayyan Dalawa. … See more

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