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Carmelaram Theology College (CTC) is the scholasticate of the Malabar Province of the Order of Discalced Carmelites (OCD), arranged in the Diocese of Mandya. Carmelaram is an investigation and development focus, where a decent number of Christian Institutions are working. Among these Institutions Carmelaram Theology College and Adhyatma Vidya Peetham (AVP) are the spearheading places for higher learning in philosophy and otherworldliness. 

The historical backdrop of Carmelaram Theology College is particularly interlaced with the historical backdrop of the Carmelite religious examinations in India. It merits referencing that the main Carmelite religious investigation house was working in Goa in the seventeenth century, where Bl. Dionysius, one of the proto-saints of the Carmelite Order examined. Among its staff, was the prominent Fr. Philip of the Blessed Trinity, an old style creator in otherworldly religious philosophy who later ended up Superior General of the Order. In spite of the fact that the Carmelites were instrumental in the establishing of the theological college at Varapuzha which was later moved to Puthenpally and after that to Alwaye for the development of the neighborhood pastorate, it was uniquely on April 9, 1932 that the General Definitory of the Order conceded consent to begin a religious philosophy school for the indigenous Carmelites at Carmel Hill, Trivandrum. 

The Carmelite ministers of the Flanders Province, Belgium, had given their habitation at Thuckalay in Tamilnadu, to the indigenous Carmelites in 1929. Later the philosophy school was moved from Trivandrum to this habitation on December 15, 1933. It was by the activity of the late Archbishop Aloysius Maria Benziger, a fanatical Carmelite minister and Bishop of Quilon, to move the philosophy school to the cloister at Thuckalay. In 1947, the cloister of Thuckalay was made amateur house and Carmel Hill, Trivandrum turned into the middle for philosophical and religious examinations by and by. The theologate was working in Carmel Hill until it was moved to Bangalore in 1971.