Mangalam is a coastal village in

Tirur Taluk Tirur Taluk comes under Tirur revenue division in Malappuram district in the Indian state of Kerala. Its headquarters is the town of Tirur. Tirur Taluk contains four municipalities - Tanur, Tirur, Kottakkal, and Valanchery. Most of the adminis ...

Malappuram district Malappuram (), is one of the List of districts of Kerala, 14 districts in the States and union territories of India, Indian state of Kerala, with a coastline of . The most populous district of Kerala, Malappuram is home to around 13% of the tot ...

Kerala Kerala ( , ) is a States and union territories of India, 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 ...

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. The village is located south-west to the town of

Tirur Tirur is a major municipal town in Tirur Taluk, Malappuram district, in the Indian state of Kerala, spread over an area of . It is one of the major business centers in Malappuram district and is situated west of Malappuram and south of Kozh ...

, away from

Ponnani Ponnani () is a Nagar Palika (Municipality), municipality in Ponnani Taluk, Malappuram District, in the state of Kerala, India. It serves as the administrative center of the Taluk and Block Panchayat of the same name. It is situated at the est ...

, and south to Tanur. Kootayi, known for its picturesque beach, is an important town in the jurisdiction of Mangalam Grama Panchayat.

History

Mangalam was a part of the ''Vettathunad'' in the medieval period, like most of the other villages in the

. ''Vettathunad'', also known as the

Kingdom of Tanur The Kingdom of Tanur (also referred to as Vettathunadu, Vettam, Tanur Swaroopam, and Prakashabhu; or the Kingdom of Light) was a feudal List of feudal states of Kerala, principality on the Malabar Coast of the Indian subcontinent during the Mi ...

, was a coastal city-state kingdom in the

Malabar Coast The Malabar Coast () is the southwestern region of the Indian subcontinent. It generally refers to the West Coast of India, western coastline of India stretching from Konkan to Kanyakumari. Geographically, it comprises one of the wettest regio ...

. It was ruled by the ''Vettathu Raja'', who was a dependent of the

Zamorin of Calicut The Samoothiri (Anglicised as Zamorin; Malayalam: , , Arabic: ''Sāmuri'', Portuguese: ''Samorim'', Dutch: ''Samorijn'', Chinese: ''Shamitihsi''Ma Huan's Ying-yai Sheng-lan: 'The Overall Survey of the Ocean's Shores' 433 Translated and Edi ...

. ''Vettathunad'' was known for its trade relationship with the Arab merchants in the medieval period. The

Kshatriya Kshatriya () (from Sanskrit ''kṣatra'', "rule, authority"; also called Rajanya) is one of the four varnas (social orders) of Hindu society and is associated with the warrior aristocracy. The Sanskrit term ''kṣatriyaḥ'' is used in the con ...

family of the ''Vettathu Rajas'' became extinct with the death of the last ''Raja'' on 24 May 1793. It was a part of the

Malabar District Malabar District, also known as British Malabar or simply Malabar was an administrative district on the southwestern Malabar Coast of Bombay Presidency (1792–1800), Madras Presidency (1800–1950) and finally, Madras State (1950–1956) in ...

during the

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Vallathol Narayana Menon Vallathol Narayana Menon (16 October 1878 – 13 March 1958) was a Malayalam poet and one of the triumvirate of modern Malayalam poetry, along with Asan and Ulloor. The honorific Mahakavi was applied to him in 1913 after the publication of ...

, a renowned

Malayalam Malayalam (; , ) is a Dravidian languages, Dravidian language spoken in the Indian state of Kerala and the union territories of Lakshadweep and Puducherry (union territory), Puducherry (Mahé district) by the Malayali people. It is one of ...

poet, was born at Mangalam. The family of

Mohammed Abdur Rahiman Mohammed Abdur Rahiman Sahib (1898 – 23 November 1945) was an Indian freedom fighter, Muslim leader, scholar, and politician from Kerala. He served as president of Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee(Malabar) in 1939. Early life and educatio ...

also traces back to here. Mangalam Grama Panchayat, the local administrative body of the region, was formed on 30 September 2000 by bifurcating the

Vettom Grama Panchayath Vettom is a local body of the Kerala government and village in Tirur Taluk, Malappuram district, India. It is a coastal suburb of Tirur Municipality and was part of the Kingdom of Tanur (Vettathnad) in medieval times. The Vettom Gram Panchayat ...

Geography

Mangalam is located at . The

Tirur River The Tirur River or Tirur-Ponnani River begins in the Tirur taluk village of Athavanad in the Malappuram district of the state of Kerala in south India and flows south-west to Thirunavaya and then north-west to Elamkulam, Malappuram, Elamkulam wher ...

, which flows through the village, divides the village into two parts - the coastal Kootayi on the western part and the Mangalam-Chennara town on the eastern part. Kootayi is better known for its beach and is one of the major fishing centres in the district.

Mangrove A mangrove is a shrub or tree that grows mainly in coastal saline water, saline or brackish water. Mangroves grow in an equatorial climate, typically along coastlines and tidal rivers. They have particular adaptations to take in extra oxygen a ...

s are seen in the coastal area.

Demography

, Mangalam had a population of 33,442 with 15,754 males and 17,688 females. The literacy rate of the village in 2011 was 91.51%.

is the most spoken language. Mangalam has been a multi-ethnic and multi-religious town since the early

medieval period In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period lasted approximately from the 5th to the late 15th centuries, similarly to the post-classical period of World history (field), global history. It began with the fall of the West ...

Transportation

* Railway Station: The

Tirur railway station Tirur railway station (station code: TIR) is an NSG–3 category Indian railway station in Palakkad railway division of Southern Railway zone. It is the oldest railway station in Kerala. It is a major railway station serving the town of Tirur i ...

is just away from the town. Almost every train stops here. * Road: Mangalam is well connected to the other cities by road through the

town. There are regular buses plying between Tirur and cities like

Malappuram Malappuram (also Malapuram) () is a municipality and town in Kerala and the headquarters of the Malappuram district in Kerala, India. It is the List of most populous urban agglomerations in Kerala, 4th largest urban agglomeration in Kerala and ...

Kozhikode Kozhikode (), also known as Calicut, is a city along the Malabar Coast in the state of Kerala in India. Known as the City of Spices, Kozhikode is listed among the City of Literature, UNESCO's Cities of Literature. It is the nineteenth large ...

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and all major cities. There are a few private buses offering over night journey to

. * Nearest Airport: The Karipur International Airport is approximately away.

Civic administration

The region is administered by the Mangalam Grama Panchayat. It is composed of 20 wards. The Panchayat is bounded by Vettom and Thalakkad to the north, Triprangode to the east,

Purathur Purathur is a sandy coastal village and a Grama Panchayat in Tirur Taluk, Malappuram district in the state of Kerala, India. Bharathappuzha river and Tirur River merges together in Purathur and join with the Arabian Sea at ''Padinjarekara Azhim ...

to the south and

Arabian Sea The Arabian Sea () is a region of sea in the northern Indian Ocean, bounded on the west by the Arabian Peninsula, Gulf of Aden and Guardafui Channel, on the northwest by Gulf of Oman and Iran, on the north by Pakistan, on the east by India, and ...

to the west. Hajara Majeed of IUML was the last president, and A. K. Saleem who belongs to

Congress A congress is a formal meeting of the representatives of different countries, constituent states, organizations, trade unions, political parties, or other groups. The term originated in Late Middle English to denote an encounter (meeting of ...

was the vice-president in the Panchayat. Mangalam comes under Thavanur (State Assembly constituency), which comes under the

Ponnani (Lok Sabha constituency) Ponnani Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 20 Lok Sabha (parliamentary) constituencies in Kerala state in southern India. Assembly segments Ponnani Lok Sabha constituency is composed of the following assembly segments: Members of Parliame ...

Law and Order

The Mangalam village comes under the jurisdiction of Tirur Police Station, which started functioning on 1 May 1963. T. P. Farshad is the present

Inspector Inspector, also police inspector or inspector of police, is a police rank. The rank or position varies in seniority depending on the organization that uses it. Australia The rank of Inspector is present in all Australian police forces excep ...

of the Tirur police station.

Notable people

(the roots of his family comes to Mangalam)

References

External links

* {{Authority control Cities and towns in Malappuram district Tirur area