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History OF KASARGOD

HISTORY OF KASARGOD   Lying on the north western coast of the State, Kasargod was famous from time immemorial. Many Arab travellers, who came to Kerala between 9th and 14th centuries A.D., visited Kasargod as it was then an important trade centre. They called this area Harkwillia. Mr.Barbose, the Portuguese traveller,who visited Kumbla near Kasargod in 1514, had recorded that rice was exported to Male Island whence coir was imported. Dr.Fracis Buccanan, who was the family doctor of Lord Wellesly, visited Kasargod in 1800. In his travelogue, he has included information on the political and communal set-up in places like Athiparamba, Kavvai, Nileshwar, Bekkal, Chandragiri and Manjeshwar. Kasargod was part of the Kumbala Kingdom in which there were 64 Tulu and Malayalam villages. When Vijayanagar empire attacked Kasargod, it was ruled by the Kolathiri king who had Nileswar as his headquarters. It is said that the characters appearing in Theyyam, the ritualistic folk dance of northern Kerala, represent those who had helped king Kolathiri fight against the attack of the Vijayanagar empire. During the decline of that empire in the 14 century, the administration of this area was vested with the Ikkeri Naikans. They continued to be the rulers till the fall of the Vijayanagar empire in 16th century. Then Vengappa Naik declared independence to Ikkeri. In 1645 Sivappa Naik took the reins and transferred the capital to Bednoor. Thus they came to be known as Bendoor Naiks. Chandragiri fort and Bekkal fort are considered to be part of a chain of forts constructed by Sivappa Naik for the defense of the kingdom. In 1763 Hyder Ali of Mysore conquered Bednoor and his intention was to capture entire Kerala. But when his attempt to conquer Thalassery Fort was foiled, Hyder Ali returned to Mysore and died there in 1782. His son, Tippu Sulthan, continued the attack and conquered Malabar. As per the Sreerangapattanam treaty of 1792, Tippu surrendered Malabar except Tulunadu (Canara) to the British. The British got Canara only after the death of Tippu Sulthan in 1799. Kasargod was part of Bekal taluk in the South Canara district of Bombay presidency. Kasargod taluk came into being when Bekal taluk was included in the Madras presidency on April 16, 1882. Though Vengayil Kunhiraman Nayanar moved a resolution in 1913 on the floor of Madras Governor's Council demanding the merger of Kasargod taluk with the Malabar district, it had to be withdrawn because of the stiff opposition of the members from Karnataka. In 1927,a political convention held at Kozhikode, passed a resolution stressing the above demand. In the same year, an organisation titled Malayalee Seva Sangham was constituted. Thanks to the efforts made by many eminent persons like K.P.Keshva Menon, Kasargod became part of Kerala following the reorganisation of states and formation of Kerala in November 1,1956. District formation NATIONAL MOVEMENT Kasargod played a prominent role in the National Movement for the freedom of the country. Mohammed Sherul Sahib and Kandige Krishna Bhat were the frontline leaders of the independence movement. Umesh Rao, K.M.Krishnan Nambiar, Shreesankarji, Naranthatta Raman Nair, A.C.Kannan Nair, T.Gopalan Nair, and Meloth Narayanan Nambair were prominent freedom fighters. The agrarian struggles to end the exploitation and oppression by landlords and chieftains were part of the National Movement. The Kadakom Sathyagraha various struggles unleashed for the uplift of the scheduled castes and tribes also supported and enlivened in National Movement.

ANJENGO REVOLT

Attingal Outbreak

        Attingal Outbreak (Anjengo Revolt; April–October 1721) refers to the massacre of 140 East India Company soldiers by native Indians and the following siege of Fort Anjengo. The Attingal Outbreak is often regarded as the first organized revolt against British authority in Malabar, Cochin and Travancore. The main reasons behind the resentment was large scale corruption and the manipulation of black pepper prices by the Company.

The chief factor at the Anjengo factor, Gyfford refused to hand over the customary gifts meant for the Rani of Attingal to the agents of the local feudal lords (Pillamar) and tried to hand them directly to the Rani at the head of a force of 140 soldiers on April 15, 1721. This show of force had the opposite effect and the local people rebelled, attacked and destroyed the entire force and then laid siege to the fort. Gunnar Ince led the defence of the fort for six months till the arrival of the Company's troops from the English controlled Tellicherry.

Following the turn of events, the Company and the Rani of Attingal entered into an agreement under which;

• the Company was compensated for all losses sustained during the attack on Anjengo
• was also given the sole monopoly of trade in pepper
• the right to erect factories in places of its choice

LIFE IS A QUESTION

ജീവിതം എന്നും ഒരു ചോദ്യചിഹ്നമാണ് ?????

ആര്ക് വേണ്ടി ? /  എന്തിനു വേണ്ടി ? / ലക്ഷ്യമെന്ത് ?തുടങ്ങിയ ഒട്ടനവധി ചോദ്യങ്ങള 

അത്തിന്റെ ഉത്തരങ്ങൾ തേടി നാം ജീവിതം മുഴുവൻ അലയുന്നു ...

അപ്പോഴും ആ ചോദ്യ ചിഹ്നം  ബാക്കി .???????

LIST OF HIGH SCHOOL IN KASARGOD DISTRICT

REVOLT OF 1857

REVOLT OF 1857 

 The Indian Rebellion of 1857 began as a mutiny of sepoys of theEast India Company's army on 10 May 1857, in the cantonment of the town of Meerut, and soon escalated into other mutinies and civilian rebellions largely in the upper Gangetic plain and central India, with the major hostilities confined to present-day Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, northernMadhya Pradesh, and the Delhi region.^[2] The rebellion posed a considerable threat to East India Company power in that region,^[3] and was contained only with the fall of Gwalior on 20 June 1858.^[2] The rebellion is also known as India's First War of Independence, theGreat Rebellion, the Indian Rebellion, the Indian Mutiny, theRevolt of 1857, the Rebellion of 1857, the Uprising of 1857, theSepoy Rebellion and the Sepoy Mutiny.

Other regions of Company-controlled India, such as Bengal, theBombay Presidency, and the Madras Presidency, remained largely calm.^[2] In Punjab, the Sikh princes backed the Company by providing soldiers and support.^[2] The large princely states of Hyderabad,Mysore, Travancore, and Kashmir, as well as the smaller ones ofRajputana, did not join the rebellion.^[4] In some regions, such as Oudh, the rebellion took on the attributes of a patriotic revolt against European presence.^[5] Maratha leaders, such as Lakshmibai, the Rani of Jhansi, became folk heroes in the nationalist movement in India half a century later;^[2] however, they themselves "generated no coherent ideology" for a new order.^[6]

The rebellion led to the dissolution of the East India Company in 1858. It also led the British to reorganize the army, the financial system and the administration in India.^[7] The country was thereafter directly governed by the crown as the new British Raj.^[4]