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Wayanad district, the Glossary

Wayanad is a district in the north-east of the Indian state of Kerala, with administrative headquarters at the municipality of Kalpetta.^[1]

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Abu Salim (actor)

Abu Salim (born 11 May 1956) is an Indian actor who predominantly works in the Malayalam cinema, in which he has played villains roles and other characters.

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Ambalavayal

Ambalavayal is a village in Wayanad district in the state of Kerala, India.

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Anu Sithara

Anu Sithara is an Indian actress who appears predominantly in Malayalam films.

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Aphrem Mathews

Mathews Mor Aphrem (James Chitteth; born 5 August 1968) is a Syriac Orthodox bishop and the Metropolitan of the Perumbavoor region of the Angamali diocese.

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Aralam Wildlife Sanctuary

Aralam Wildlife Sanctuary is the northernmost wildlife sanctuary of Kerala, southwest India.

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Badagas

The Badagas are an ethno-linguistic community living in the Nilgiris district in Tamil Nadu, India.

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Banasura Hill

Banasura Hill is situated in Padinjarathara and it isone of the tallest mountains in the Western Ghats of the Wayanad district, Kerala, India.

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Banasura Sagar Dam, Situated in Padinjarathara in Kerala and it is the Largest Earth Dam in India and Second Largest Dam in Asia Banasura Dam is under the control of Padinjarathara KSEB Substation India's First Operating Floating Solar Power Plant was Established in Banasura Dam.

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Bandipur National Park

Bandipur National Park is a national park covering in Chamarajnagar district in the Indian state of Karnataka.

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Basil Joseph

Basil Joseph is an Indian film director and actor who works in the Malayalam film industry.

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Bayalu Seeme

Bayaluseeme or Bayalu Seeme is the area lying to the east of Malenadu, a region of Karnataka state in India.

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Brahmagiri Wildlife Sanctuary

The Brahmagiri Wildlife Sanctuary is located in Kodagu District, Karnataka State, India, within the Western Ghats and about 250 km from Bangalore.

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British Raj

The British Raj (from Hindustani, 'reign', 'rule' or 'government') was the rule of the British Crown on the Indian subcontinent,.

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Buddhism

Buddhism, also known as Buddha Dharma and Dharmavinaya, is an Indian religion and philosophical tradition based on teachings attributed to the Buddha, a wandering teacher who lived in the 6th or 5th century BCE.

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C. K. Saseendran

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Census of India

The decennial census of India has been conducted 15 times, as of 2011.

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Chaliyar

Chaliyar River is the fourth longest river in Kerala at 169 km in length.

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Chalukya dynasty

The Chalukya dynasty was a Classical Indian dynasty that ruled large parts of southern and central India between the 6th and the 12th centuries.

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Chamarajanagar district

Chamarajanagar or Chamarajanagara is the southernmost district in the state of Karnataka, India.

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Chembra Peak

Chembra Peak (Chembra Mala) is a mountain in the state of Kerala, India, with an elevation of above sea level.

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Chera dynasty

The Chera dynasty (or Cēra), was a Sangam age Tamil dynasty which unified various regions of the western coast and western ghats in southern India to form the early Chera empire.

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Chief Judicial Magistrate Court

Chief Judicial Magistrate's Court or Court of Chief Judicial Magistrate (abbreviated as CJM Court) is the second tier court in the criminal court structure in India.

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Chola dynasty

The Chola dynasty was a Tamil dynasty originating from southern India.

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Christianity in Kerala

Christianity is the third-largest practiced religion in Kerala, accounting for 18% of the population according to the 2001 Indian census.

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Coimbatore

Coimbatore (Tamil: kōyamputtūr), sometimes shortened as Kovai, is one of the major metropolitan cities in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.

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Communist Party of India (Marxist)

The Communist Party of India (Marxist) (abbreviated as CPI(M)) is a communist political party in India.

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In India, a Community development block (CD block) or simply Block is a sub-division of Tehsil, administratively earmarked for planning and development.

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Comoros

The Comoros, officially the Union of the Comoros, is an archipelagic country made up of three islands in Southeastern Africa, located at the northern end of the Mozambique Channel in the Indian Ocean.

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Cotiote War

The Cotiote War (Kottayathu war) refers to a series of continuous struggles fought between the Cotiote king, Pazhassi Raja Kerala Varma, and the East India Company across a span of thirteen years between 1793 and 1806.

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Courts of Judicial Magistrate of First Class

Courts of Judicial Magistrate of First Class, Judicial First Class Magistrate Courts, or Judicial Magistrate First Class Courts are at the second lowest level of the Criminal Court structure in India.

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Deccan Plateau

The Deccan is a large plateau and region of the Indian subcontinent located between the Western Ghats and the Eastern Ghats, and is loosely defined as the peninsular region between these ranges that is south of the Narmada River.

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Demographics of India

India is the most populous country in the world with one-sixth of the world's population.

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Deputy superintendent of police

Deputy superintendent of police (DSP) is a rank used by several police forces in the Commonwealth and formerly in the British Empire.

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Dharmadom

Dharmadom or Dharmadam is a census town in Thalassery taluk of Kannur district in the state of Kerala, India.

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District council (India)

The Zila Panchayat or District Development Council or Zilla Parishad or District Panchayat or is the third tier of the Panchayati Raj system and functions at the district levels in all states.

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District courts of India

The district courts of India are the district courts of the state governments in India for every district or for one or more districts together taking into account of the number of cases, population distribution in the district.

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District magistrate

The district magistrate, also known as the district collector or deputy commissioner, is a career civil servant who serves as the executive head of a district's administration in India.

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Earl of Mornington

Earl of Mornington is a title in the Peerage of Ireland.

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Edakkal caves

The Edakkal caves are two natural caves at a remote location at Edakkal, from Kalpetta in the Wayanad district of Kerala in India.

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Eranad

Eranad also known as Ernad refers to the erstwhile province in the midland area of Malabar, consisting of Malappuram and nearby regions such as Anakkayam, Manjeri, Kondotty, Nilambur, etc.

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Esther Anil

Esther Anil (born 27 August 2001) is an Indian actress who works primarily in the Malayalam-language films.

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Ezhimala (hill, Kannur)

Ezhimala, a hill reaching a height of, is located near Payyanur, in Kannur district of Kerala, South India.

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Family court

Family courts were originally created to be a Court of Equity convened to decide matters and make orders in relation to family law, including custody of children, and could disregard certain legal requirements as long as the petitioner/plaintiff came into court with "clean hands" and the request was reasonable, "quantum meruit".

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Franky's narrow-mouthed frog

Franky's narrow-mouthed frog (Mysticellus franki) is a species of frog in the family Microhylidae.

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George M. Moraes

George Mark Moraes (11 May 1905 – 16 April 1994), known by his pen name George M. Moraes, was an Indian historian, writer, and professor.

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George Njaralakatt

Mar George Njaralakatt (ܡܪܝ ܓܝܘܪܓܝܣ) (born 23 July 1946) is a Syro-Malabar Catholic Archbishop.

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Gold

Gold is a chemical element; it has symbol Au (from the Latin word aurum) and atomic number 79.

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Governor-general

Governor-general (plural governors-general), or governor general (plural governors general), is the title of an office-holder.

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Gudalur, Nilgiris

Gudalur is a municipality and taluk in Nilgiris district in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.

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Hinduism in Kerala

Hinduism is the largest religion in Kerala and Hindu lineages together make up 54.8% of the population of the state according to the 2011 census.

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Hoysala Kingdom

The Hoysala Kingdom was a Kannadiga power originating from the Indian subcontinent that ruled most of what is now Karnataka between the 10th and the 14th centuries.

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Human Development Index

The Human Development Index (HDI) is a statistical composite index of life expectancy, education (mean years of schooling completed and expected years of schooling upon entering the education system), and per capita income indicators, which is used to rank countries into four tiers of human development.

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Hyder Ali

Hyder Ali (Haidarālī; 1720 – 7 December 1782) was the Sultan and de facto ruler of the Kingdom of Mysore in southern India.

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I. C. Balakrishnan

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India

India, officially the Republic of India (ISO), is a country in South Asia.

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Indian Administrative Service

The Indian Administrative Service (IAS) is the administrative arm of the All India Services of Government of India.

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Indian National Congress

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Indian Police Service

The Indian Police Service (IPS) is a civil service under the All India Services.

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Indian Standard Time

Indian Standard Time (IST), sometimes also called India Standard Time, is the time zone observed throughout the Republic of India, with a time offset of UTC+05:30.

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Islam in Kerala

Islam arrived in Kerala, the Malayalam-speaking region in the south-western tip of India, through Middle Eastern merchants.

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ISO 3166-2:IN

ISO 3166-2:IN is the entry for India in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), which defines codes for the names of the principal subdivisions (e.g., provinces or states) of all countries coded in ISO 3166-1.

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Jainism

Jainism, also known as Jain Dharma, is an Indian religion.

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Kabini River

The Kabini River(Kapila River) is one of the major tributaries of the river Cauvery in southern India, It originates near Kavilumpara in Kozhikode district of Kerala state by the confluence of the Panamaram River and the Mananthavady River.

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Kadamba dynasty

The Kadambas were an ancient royal family from modern Karnataka, India, that ruled northern Karnataka and the Konkan from Banavasi in present-day Uttara Kannada district in India.

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Kadathanadu

Kadathanadu, also rendered Kadathanad, Katattanad, and, academically, Kaṭattanāṭǔ; alternately known as Vatakara or Badagara, was a kingdom in North Malabar just north of the Korappuzha River, ruled by the Porlathiri dynasty after their dispossession from their native realm of Calicut and Polanad.

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Kalabhra dynasty

The Kalabhra dynasty, also called Kaḷabrar, Kaḷappirar, Kallupura or Kalvar, were rulers of all or parts of Tamil region sometime between the 3rd century and 6th century CE, after the ancient dynasties of the early Cholas, the early Pandyas and Chera.

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Kalpatta Narayanan

Kalpatta Narayanan (born January, 1952) is an Indian novelist, short story writer, essayist, columnist, and a poet of Malayalam literature.

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Kalpetta

Kalpetta is a major City and municipality in the Wayanad district of the Indian state of Kerala.

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Kalpetta Assembly constituency

Kalpetta State assembly constituency is one of the 140 state legislative assembly constituencies in Kerala state in southern India.

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Kannada

Kannada (ಕನ್ನಡ), formerly also known as Canarese, is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly by the people of Karnataka in southwestern India, with minorities in all neighbouring states.

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Kannur

Kannur, formerly known in English as Cannanore, is a city and a municipal corporation in the state of Kerala, India.

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Kannur district

Kannur is one of the 14 districts along the west coast in the state of Kerala, India. Wayanad district and Kannur district are districts of Kerala.

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Karapuzha Dam

Karapuzha Dam located in the Wayanad district of Kerala, Karapuzha Dam is located in the greenish and natural regions of Wayanad, Kerala on the Karapuzha River, a tributary of the Kabini River.

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Karnataka

Karnataka (ISO), also known colloquially as Karunāḍu, is a state in the southwestern region of India.

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Kaveri

The Kaveri (also known as Cauvery, the anglicised name) is one of the major Indian rivers flowing through the states of Karnataka and Tamil Nadu. The Kaveri River rises at Talakaveri in the Brahmagiri range in the Western Ghats, Kodagu district of the state of Karnataka, at an elevation of 1,341 m above mean sea level and flows for about 800 km before its outfall into the Bay of Bengal.

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Kerala

Kerala (/), called Keralam in Malayalam, is a state on the Malabar Coast of India.

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Kerala Legislative Assembly

The Kerala Legislative Assembly, popularly known as the Kerala Niyamasabha, is the State Assembly of Kerala, one of the 28 states in India.

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Keralathile Africa

Keralathile Africa which literally means "Africa in Kerala" is a Malayalam language book written by Indian civil rights activist K. Panoor.

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Kingdom of Kottayam

Kottayam (Cotiote) was a feudal city-state in Malabar, present-day Kerala, India.

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Kingdom of Mysore

The Kingdom of Mysore was a geopolitical realm in southern India founded in around 1399 in the vicinity of the modern-day city of Mysore and prevailed until 1950.

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Kodagu district

Kodagu district (also known by its former name Coorg) is an administrative district in the Karnataka state of India.

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Kolathiri

Kolathiri or Kolathiri Rājā (King of KolathunāduA. Shreedhara Menon (2007), A brief History of Kerala, DC Books, Kottayam or King of Cannanore in foreign accounts) was the title by which the senior-most male along the matrilineal line of the Mushika or Kolathunādu Royal Family (Kolaswarũpam) based in the North Malabar region was styled.

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Kolathunadu

Kolattunādu (Kola Swarupam, as Kingdom of Cannanore in foreign accounts, Chirakkal (Chericul) in later times) was one of the four most powerful kingdoms on the Malabar Coast during the arrival of the Portuguese Armadas in India, along with Zamorin, the Kingdom of Cochin and Quilon.

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Kollegal

Kollegala is the Major taluk in the Chamarajanagara District of Karnataka State in the south of India.

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Kottayam

Kottayam is a muncipal town in the Kottayam district of Kerala, India.

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Kottayam-Malabar

Kottayam-Malabar is a census town near Kuthuparamba in Kannur district of Kerala state in India.

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Kozhikode

Kozhikode, also known in English as Calicut, is a city along the Malabar Coast in the state of Kerala in India.

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Kozhikode district

Kozhikode, or Calicut district, is one of the 14 districts in the Indian state of Kerala, along its southwestern Malabar Coast. Wayanad district and Kozhikode district are districts of Kerala.

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Kozhikode International Airport

Kozhikode International Airport, also known as Calicut International Airport (locally referred to as Karipur Airport, Kondotty Airport or Malappuram Airport), is an international airport serving the city of Kozhikode in the state of Kerala, India.

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Kurichiya

Kurichiya or Kurichiyar also known as Hill Brahmins Stud.

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Kurumbranad

Kurumbranad (Kurumbuzhai Nadu or Kurumbiathiri Swaroopam) was a kingdom, located in present-day Kerala state, South India, on the Malabar Coast.

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Kusha (Ramayana)

Kusha (कुश) and his younger twin brother Lava were the children of Rama and Sita.

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Lakshadweep

Lakshadweep is a union territory of India.

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Lava (Ramayana)

Lava (लव) and his elder twin brother Kusha, are the children of Rama and Sita in Hindu tradition.

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Left Democratic Front

The Left Democratic Front (LDF) is an alliance of left-wing political parties led by Communist Party of India (Marxist) in the Indian state of Kerala.

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List of districts in India

A district (zila), also known as revenue district is an administrative division of an Indian state or territory.

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List of districts of Kerala

The Indian state of Kerala is divided into 14 districts. Wayanad district and List of districts of Kerala are districts of Kerala.

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List of religious sites in Wayanad

This is a list of religious places in Wayanad, a district in Kerala, India.

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Local government in Kerala

Kerala is a state on the southwestern coast of India.

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M. P. Veerendra Kumar

Maniyankode Padmaprabha Veerendra Kumar (22 July 1936 — 28 May 2020) was an Indian politician, writer and journalist, who was a member of the 14th Lok Sabha.

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M. R. Raghava Varier

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Malabar District

Malabar District, also known as Malayalam District, was an administrative district on the southwestern Malabar Coast of Bombay Presidency (1792–1800), Madras Presidency (1800–1937), Madras Province (1937–1950) and finally, Madras State (1950–1956) in India.

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Malabar Wildlife Sanctuary

Malabar Wildlife Sanctuary is a protected area located along the Western Ghats and spread across in Chakkittapara and Koorachundu revenue villages of Koyilandy Taluk in Kozhikode, Kerala.

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Malappuram

Malappuram (also Malapuram) is a city and the headquarters of the Malappuram district in Kerala, India.

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Malappuram district

Malappuram, is one of the 14 districts in the Indian state of Kerala, with a coastline of. Wayanad district and Malappuram district are districts of Kerala.

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Malayalam

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

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Mananthavady

Mananthavady is a municipality, taluk and town in the Wayanad district of Kerala, India.

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Mananthavady Assembly constituency

Mananthavady is one of the 140 state legislative assembly constituencies in Kerala state in southern India.

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Manu Manjith

Manu Manjith is an Indian lyricist and poet in Malayalam language.

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Marakkadavu

Marakkadavu is a small village near Pulpally in Kerala, India.

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Mariyam Vannu Vilakkoothi

Mariyam Vannu Vilakkoothi is an Indian Malayalam-language stoner film written and directed by debutant Jenith Kachappilly and produced by Rajesh Augustine under the banner of ARK Media.

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Mark Wilks

Colonel Mark Wilks (1759 – 19 September 1831) was a Manx soldier, historian and East India Company administrator who worked in southern India principally in the princely state of Mysore.

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Mathai Nooranal

Rev.

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Member of parliament

A member of parliament (MP) is the representative in parliament of the people who live in their electoral district.

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Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha

A Member of Parliament in the Lok Sabha (abbreviated: MP) is the representative of a legislative constituency in the Lok Sabha; the lower house of the Parliament of India.

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Member of the Legislative Assembly (India)

A member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) is a representative elected by the voters of an electoral district (constituency) to the legislature of State government in the Indian system of government.

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Midhun Manuel Thomas

Midhun Manuel Thomas is an Indian film director and screenwriter who works in the Malayalam film industry.

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Mudumalai National Park

Mudumalai National Park is a national park in the Nilgiri Mountains in Tamil Nadu in southern India.

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Municipality

A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate.

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Mushika dynasty

Mushika dynasty, also spelled Mushaka, was a minor dynastic power that held sway over the region in and around Mount Ezhi (Ezhimala) in present-day North Malabar, Kerala, India.

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Mysore

Mysore, officially Mysuru, is the second-most populous city in the southern Indian state of Karnataka.

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Mysore district

Mysore district, officially Mysuru district, is an administrative district located in the southern part of the state of Karnataka, India.

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Mysore plateau

The Mysore plateau, also known as the South Karnataka plateau, is a plateau that is one of the four geographically unique regions of the Indian state of Karnataka.

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Mysore State

Mysore State, colloquially Old Mysore, was a political territory within the Dominion of India and the subsequent Republic of India from 1947 until 1956.

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Nagarhole National Park

Nagarahole National Park is a national park located in Kodagu district and Mysore district in Karnataka, India.

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Nanditha K. S.

Nanditha K. S. was a poet from Kerala who wrote poems in Malayalam and English.

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National Highway 766 (India)

National Highway 766 (NH 766) (previously NH-212) is a National Highway in Southern India.

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Natural environment

The natural environment or natural world encompasses all biotic and abiotic things occurring naturally, meaning in this case not artificial.

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Natural resource

Natural resources are resources that are drawn from nature and used with few modifications.

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Neolithic

The Neolithic or New Stone Age (from Greek νέος 'new' and λίθος 'stone') is an archaeological period, the final division of the Stone Age in Europe, Asia and Africa.

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Netravati River

The Netravati River or Netravathi Nadi has its origins at Bangrabalige valley, Yelaneeru Ghat in Kudremukh in Chikkamagaluru district of Karnataka, India.

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Nilambur

Nilambur is a major town, a municipality and a Taluk in the Malappuram district of the Indian state of Kerala.

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Nileshwaram

Nileshwaram or Nileshwar or Neeleswaram is a municipality and a major town in Kasaragod District, state of Kerala, India.

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Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve

The Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve is a biosphere reserve in the Nilgiri Mountains of the Western Ghats in South India.

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Nilgiris district

The Nilgiris district is one of the 38 districts in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu.

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Nirmal Baby Varghese

Nirmal Baby Varghese is an Indian film director in Malayalam.

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O. R. Kelu

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Ooty

Ooty (officially Udhagamandalam, anglicized: Ootacamund, abbreviated as Udhagai) is a town and municipality in the Nilgiris district of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.

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P. S. Jeena

Palanilkumkalayil Skaria Jeena, known as P.S Jeena (born 9 January 1994), is an Indian professional basketball player and practicing Christian who captains the India women's national basketball team.

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Paddy field

A paddy field is a flooded field of arable land used for growing semiaquatic crops, most notably rice and taro.

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Panamaram

Panamaram is a town, village in Wayanad district in the state of Kerala, India.

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Panchayat samiti

Panchayat samiti or block panchayat is a rural local government (panchayat) body at the intermediate tehsil (taluka/mandal) or block level in India.

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Pandalur

Pandalur is a small town near Gudalur in the Pandalur taluk of Nilgiris district in Tamil Nadu, India.

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Pandya dynasty

The Pandyan dynasty, also referred to as the Pandyas of Madurai, was an ancient Tamil dynasty of South India, and among the four great kingdoms of Tamilakam, the other three being the Pallavas, the Cholas and the Cheras.

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Paniya language

Paniya is one of the Malayalamoid languages spoken in India.

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Paniya people

The Paniya, also known as Paniyar and Paniyan, are an ethnic group of India.

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Panoor

Panoor is a Municipality in the district of Kannur in the state of Kerala, India.

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Pazhassi Raja

Kerala Varma Pazhassi Raja (3 January 1753 – 30 November 1805), also known as Cotiote Rajah and Pychy Rajah, was the de facto head of the Kottayam Kingdom in the Malabar region of Kerala between 1774 and 1805.

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Perumpadikkunnu

Perumpadikkunnu is a place situated in Wayanad Ambalavayal, Kerala, India.

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Philoxenos Yuhanon

Mor Philoxenos Yuhanon (born John Jacob Elappanal; 5 December 1941 – 30 December 2015) was a Syriac Orthodox bishop.

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Plateau

In geology and physical geography, a plateau (plateaus or plateaux), also called a high plain or a tableland, is an area of a highland consisting of flat terrain that is raised sharply above the surrounding area on at least one side.

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Pulakeshin I

Pulakeshin (IAST: Pulakeśin, r. c. 540–567) was the first sovereign ruler of the Chalukya dynasty of Vatapi (modern Badami).

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Pulpally

Pulpally is a mid-sized town in Wayanad District of Kerala, India.Pulpally also known as 'The land of black gold'.

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Rahul Gandhi

Rahul Rajiv Gandhi (born 19 June 1970) is an Indian politician.

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Rashtrakutas

Rashtrakuta (IAST) (r. 753 – 982 CE) was a royal Indian dynasty ruling large parts of the Indian subcontinent between the 6th and 10th centuries.

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Ravula

The Ravula (Adyar in Malayalam, Yerava in Kannada) are a tribal community or indigenous community in Karnataka and Kerala.

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Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India

Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India, founded in 1961 by the Government of India Ministry of Home Affairs, for arranging, conducting and analysing the results of the demographic surveys of India including Census of India and Linguistic Survey of India.

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Revenue Village

A Revenue Village is a small administrative region in India, a village with defined borders.

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Sangam literature

The Sangam literature (Tamil: சங்க இலக்கியம், caṅka ilakkiyam, Malayalam: സംഘസാഹിത്യം, saṅgha sāhityam), historically known as 'the poetry of the noble ones' (Tamil: சான்றோர் செய்யுள், Cāṉṟōr ceyyuḷ), connotes the early classical Tamil literature and is the earliest known literature of South India.

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Sreedhanya Suresh

Sreedhanya Suresh is an Indian Administrative Service officer.

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Srirangapatna

Srirangapatna is a town and headquarters of one of the seven Taluks of Mandya district, in the Indian State of Karnataka.

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Station house officer

A Station House Officer alias Police Inspector (SHO alias P.I) is the officer in charge of a police station in India and Pakistan.

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Sub-divisional magistrate

A sub-divisional magistrate, also known as sub collector, revenue divisional officer, or assistant commissioner, is the administrative head of a sub-division in an Indian district, exercising executive, revenue, and magisterial duties.

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Subdivision in India

A sub-division is an administrative division of a district in India.

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Subscriber trunk dialling

Subscriber trunk dialling (STD), also known as subscriber toll dialing, is a telephone numbering plan feature and telecommunications technology in the United Kingdom and various Commonwealth countries for the dialling of trunk calls by telephone subscribers without the assistance of switchboard operators.

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Sultan Bathery

Sultan Bathery is a town and municipality in the Wayanad district of Kerala, India, near its borders with Tamil Nadu and Karnataka.

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Sulthan Bathery Assembly constituency

Sulthan Bathery State assembly constituency is one of the 140 state legislative assembly constituencies in Kerala state in southern India.

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Sunny Wayne

Sujith Unnikrishnan (born 19 August 1983), known by his stage name Sunny Wayne is an Indian actor who predominantly works in Malayalam cinema in second lead to supporting roles.

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Superintendent of police (India)

The Superintendent of Police (SP) is a rank in Indian police forces held by an officer who serves as the head of a rural police district.

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T. Siddique

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Tailapa II

Tailapa II (r. c. 973-997), also known as Taila II and by his title Ahavamalla, was the founder of the Western Chalukya Empire in peninsular India.

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Tamil language

Tamil (தமிழ்) is a Dravidian language natively spoken by the Tamil people of South Asia.

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Tamil Nadu

Tamil Nadu (TN) is the southernmost state of India.

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Tehsil

A tehsil (also known as tahsil, taluk, or taluka) is a local unit of administrative division in India and Pakistan.

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Tehsildar

In Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan, a tehsildar, talukdar, or mamlatdar is a land revenue officer accompanied by revenue inspectors.

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Thalassery

Thalassery, formerly Tellicherry, is a municipality and commercial city on the Malabar Coast in Kannur district in the state of Kerala, India, bordered by the districts of Mahe, Kozhikode, Wayanad, Kasaragod and Kodagu (Karnataka).

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Thamarassery

Thamarassery, formerly known as Thazhmalachery, is one of the taluks and a major hill town in the Kozhikode district of Kerala, India, 30 km north-east of Kozhikode (Calicut) city and 29 km east of Koyilandy.

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The Times of India

The Times of India, also known by its abbreviation TOI, is an Indian English-language daily newspaper and digital news media owned and managed by The Times Group.

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Thirunelly

Thirunelly is a village in Wayanad district in the state of Kerala, India.

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Tipu Sultan

Tipu Sultan (Sultan Fateh Ali Sahab Tipu; 1 December 1751 – 4 May 1799), commonly referred to as Sher-e-Mysore or "Tiger of Mysore", was an Indian ruler of the Kingdom of Mysore based in South India.

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Tribe

The term tribe is used in many different contexts to refer to a category of human social group.

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United Democratic Front (Kerala)

The United Democratic Front (UDF) is the Indian National Congress-led alliance of centre to centre-right political parties in the Indian state of Kerala.

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Vatakara

Vatakara,, (formerly Badagara), Bargaret, is a Municipality, Taluk and a major town in the Kozhikode district of Kerala state, India.

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Vijayanagara

Vijayanagara was a city at the modern location of Hampi, in the Indian state of Karnataka.

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Vinod Jose

Vinod K. Jose, or Vinod Kizhakkeparambil Joseph, (born 1980) is a journalist, editor, and magazine founder from India.

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Vital statistics (government records)

Vital statistics is accumulated data gathered on live births, deaths, migration, foetal deaths, marriages and divorces.

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Vythiri

Vythiri is a small village, town and tourist destination located in the Wayanad district in the Indian state of Kerala.

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Wayanad Lok Sabha constituency

Wayanad Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 20 Lok Sabha (parliamentary) constituencies in Kerala state in southern India.

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Wayanad Wildlife Sanctuary

Wayanad Wildlife Sanctuary is a wildlife sanctuary in Wayanad, Kerala, India with an extent of and four hill ranges namely Sulthan Bathery, Muthanga, Kurichiat and Tholpetty.

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Western Chalukya Empire

The Western Chalukya Empire ruled most of the western Deccan Plateau in South India between the 10th and 12th centuries AD.

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Western Ganga dynasty

Western Ganga was an important ruling dynasty of ancient Karnataka in India which lasted from about 350 to 1000 CE.

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Western Ghats

The Western Ghats, also known as the Sahyadri, is a mountain range that stretches along the western coast of the Indian peninsula.

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Zamorin

The Samoothiri (Anglicised as Zamorin; Malayalam:,, Arabic: Sāmuri, Portuguese: Samorim, Dutch: Samorijn, Chinese: ShamitihsiMa Huan's Ying-yai Sheng-lan: 'The Overall Survey of the Ocean's Shores'. Translated and Edited by J. V. G. Mills. Cambridge University Press for the Hakluyt Society (1970).) was the title of the erstwhile ruler and monarch of the Kingdom of Calicut in the South Malabar region of India.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayanad_district

Also known as North Wayanad, Thollayiram, Wainad, Wayanad, Wayanadu, Waynad, Wyanad, Wynaad, Wynaad district, Wynad, Wynad district, Wynnad.

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