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In the transformation of political orientation from authoritarianism to democratic decentralization, the institutional arrangements facilitating the effective functioning of political system, have been acquiring the inevitable flexibility to suit to the demands of passing times. The dynamism of changes has been inherent in the nature and composition of Legislature the most vital democratic institution, instrumental in articulating expressions of public sentiments. The Legislative Assembly of Kerala is no exception.

The State of Kerala, renowned for its political maturity and progressiveness, has inherited and developed democratic traditions and ethos through consistent records of legislative innovations. The history of the making and shaping of the Kerala Legislative Assembly, proves the march, which Kerala has stolen over many other States of India.

An analytical glance into the evolution of the Legislative Assembly of Kerala indicates different phases of development, matching the social, political and economic changes over the years. The unfolding evolutionary cycle ranges from the parallel but heterogeneous courses of development in the erstwhile Princely States of Travancore and Cochin and British Malabar, to the uniform progress in the integrated State of Kerala.

Successive doses of changes have been rejuvenating the transition of a small advisory Council to the constitutionally sanctioned law making body of Kerala, through manifestations of structural and functional transformation, spreading across different phases, which could be classified chronologically on the basis of apparently similar socio-political configuration of the respective periods, as:

(1) 1888-1947
(2) 1947-1956
(3) 1956-1996
(4) 1996-2001

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