Cheloor Mana is situated at
Peringottukara
Peringottukara is a village in the western coastal side of India, located on the western side of Thrissur district, Kerala. The village is much famous for Vishnumaya Temples. Peringottukara village includes kizhakkumuri, vadakkumuri, and per ...
, near
Thriprayar,
Thrissur district,
Kerala state
Kerala ( ; ) is a state on the Malabar Coast of India. It was formed on 1 November 1956, following the passage of the States Reorganisation Act, by combining Malayalam-speaking regions of the erstwhile regions of Cochin, Malabar, South Cana ...
,
India. It is one among the famous
ancestral homes of
Namboodiris in Kerala. It is an "Ettu Kettu" having two internal courtyards (Nadumuttam). Cheloor Itti Ravi Namboodiri was a member of the first Cochin Legislative Assembly in 1925 in the
Princely State Of Cochin Kingdom of Cochin . Along with Kaplingat Shankaran Namboodiri, he was instrumental in bringing out the 'Namboodiri Bill' which was intended to abolish
polygamy among Namboodiris and aimed at many other revolutionary changes within the community. He was also one among the founders of
Sree Kerala Varma College, Thrissur. He had also served as the receiver of the sitaram spinning and weaving mills ltd., trichur appointed by the high court of cochin in o.s. 2/1123 with effect from 2.7.1123 m.e. He was also a member of the Central War Committee of the state of Cochin during the Second World War. Mr A.F.W.Dixon, CIE. ICS the Dewan of the Cochin state, was the President of the Central War Committee.
Cheloor Mana is one among the three 'Ooralan' (Owner) families of
Thriprayar Temple, the others being Janappilly Mana and Punnappilly Mana. Cheloor Mana has got its own family temple within the Mana premises called 'Cheloor Narayanan kulangara Maha Vishnu Temple'. Cheloor Mana possessed of land in the late 1950s just before the Land Reforms Act was enforced in Kerala.
Buildings and structures in Thrissur district
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