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Pandikkad

Pandikkad is a major town in Malappuram district.  In the first place, the area was surrounded by four rivers.  So to get there, one has to travel in a 'Pandi' or a raft.  Thus the region was known as 'Pandikadavu'.  Pandikkadavu Panchayat published in 2015 by Zafar Pandikkad, a historical book titled 'The Land of Essential Records' shed light on the history of Pandikkad.
Pandikkad Grama Panchayat is the head quarters of the police station and the primary health center.  State highways like Valancheri - Nilambur and Palakkad - Kozhikode pass through Pandikkad town.  The nearest railway station is in Pattukkad and the airport is at Kozhikode.  SRF of Malappuram is located in Kolparambu area of ​​Pandikkad Grama Panchayat.  There is a Government Higher Secondary School and 17 primary schools in Pandikkad.  It is situated 22 km east of Malappuram.  It is located at an altitude of 51 m above sea level.  As of the 2011 census, the population was 58,675.  Literacy is 89%.  Population density per square kilometer 714.2.  About 90% of the area is of lateral soil and 10% of elk.
Educational institutions
The first school in the area was the AMLP school at Veluvanadu, which was established in 1903 on the Pandikadu-Manjeri road.  The school which was approved by the Government of Madras was Kunjikammu Molla, Karakkad who was also the teacher of Khilafat leader Ali Musliyar.  The jungle Kunjipaththumma teacher (1935-1937), who was released after the first teacher training in the area, is one of the main teachers.  Their son A was appointed as the village officer through the Public Service Commission.  It was Muhammad.
Pandikkad Government High School was established on 21st June 1957. The first SSLC batch was released in the year 1960-61.  There are government schools like MLP school and many unaided schools in the area.
The first library in the area was the Viveka Daini Library at Kodassery in Pandikkadu which was opened in 1936. Abdullah, son of Kevitan Kunjimuhammed and Chullikkulavan Biyuni, was the first medical doctor in the area.  He graduated from Calicut Medical College in 1957. He was the first lawyer in the area.  Adv Sreedharan Nair is the son of Kunjunayara and Lakshmi Amma.  In 1969, he graduated from the Law College, Trivandrum.  Mammootty worked in Manjeri Bar as his assistant. He was the first woman lawyer in the area.  Manu Haji alias Puthanpurakkal Kunhahammed was the last person in the area to hold the post of a village officer.  Son of Ibrahim Master and Zainaba Teacher  Nazar is a referee in the area accredited by the All India Football Federation.  He also runs a football academy here.
Famous novelist OV Vijayan spent his childhood in the Pandikkad region.  Vijayan Pandikkad came with Achan, an employee of MSP in Kolparamba, Pandikkad.  OV Vijayan's primary education was in the CMALP school Kuttippuli.  He mentions this in his epic, The Epic of the Epic.

In history
Pandikadam and the surrounding areas were famous for being the land of the early Cheras before the 11th century AD.  Pandikad has been mentioned by all the historians who wrote the history of Malabar from William Logan to the Malabar Manual.
Pandikkadu and Karuvarakunda were famous places for iron.  The Calcutta Archives can be found in the Newspaper of Calicut Agreement signed by the then king of Veluvanadu in 1793 for heating the iron ore from Pandikkad Theyyapadiyakku, Heath, Italy.  AK Codur wrote, "East Eranadu was a prosperous region from the time of the Zamorin. When the Mysore rulers came, Tamil Nadu and Mysore had begun road connectivity with the Mysore region.  "East Mysore was the center of the freight trade from Mysore and Tamil Nadu to Malabar and vice versa.
The land of struggles
Following the 1788 march of Tipu Sultan, there was a period of social reform in Malabar as a whole.  This was evident in the area.  The Chela Rebellion was staged in Pandikkadu when white women of the lower castes who had no right to cover up their nakedness began to protest.
In his book, "The Malabar Rebellion EMS's Call and Warning," it states: "By the late 1800s, two dozen powerful revolts had taken place against colonial powers.  It is recorded that great struggles were fought against imperialism at Pandallur in 1836, Pandikkat in 1894 and Chembrassery in 1896 '(Editor Basheer Chunkathara, p. 7).
In 1896, 94 Mappilas died in the major suicide strike in Manjeri when the Kureeker land belonged to the Manjeri Kovilai people in Chembassery, Pandikkadu.
In his book 'The Mappila Rabalian', who was a North Malabar policeman, Tottenham listed the Chembrassery area as the site of the most dangerous campaign against the UK.  Took place in 1919.
The First Pandikadu War
The riots that took place on March 31, 1894 at Veluwangadu Tharipady are known as Pandikkad War.  34 protesters, led by Palathingal Unnin Haji, took part in the agitation against the eviction of tenants.  32 people were reported killed.  On the 14th of April, 1894, in the Malayala Manorama, which was published as a weekly newspaper from Kottayam, he wrote a face-to-face speech called 'Mappila Rebellion' (Anglo Mappila War: Page 57).

The Battle of Pandikkad (November 14, 1921)
The Pandikad military camp invasion, also known as the Pandikkad War, was a major event in the Malabar Rebellion of 1921.  The event took place on November 14, 1921.  This was the second phase of the Malabar Rebellion.  By the end of August 1921, the bloodshed in the Malabar Rebellion had temporarily ceased, but the British retaliated by revenge.  Volunteer clashes broke out in several places in the British-Mappila Khilafat.  The largest and most important of these was the Pandikkad Gorkha Military Camp.
Chembrassery Thant, along with Warrian Kunnath Kunhahammed Haji, the commander of the Malabar Rebellion, prepared the plan for the attack.  The team was accompanied by Mukri Ayamu and Payanad Moin.  The camp was located at Pandikkadu, Perinthalmanna road near the market place at Moithunnipadam.  The guerrilla attack was planned in a military camp guarded by a mud wall.  Around 400 specially trained personnel from Chembrassery, Karuvarakundu and Keezhatoor were deployed for the attack.  The attack took place on November 14, 1921, at five o'clock in the morning.  The Mappila fighters who broke into the encircling walls of the camp, initially set out on a strong attack.  But the camp consisted mostly of skilled and well-trained Gorkha soldiers.  The camp also had a huge stockpile of weapons, contrary to expectations of the Mappilas.  The Gurkha soldiers, who had regained their gallantry at first, started using machine guns, but the battle was reversed.  As the hour-long encounter ended, the Mappilas lost the battle.  British military chief Captain Averley and five soldiers were killed in the attack.  Thirty-four people were injured.  The number of casualties from the Mappila area was close to 200. However, there are historians who believe that the figures are unreliable.
Historical scholars are of the opinion that British imperialism was strictly keeping out the number of British soldiers killed during the Malabar Rebellion. A study in the Malabar Rebellion:
Tottenham, the North Malabar police superintendent, wrote in his book The Mappila Rabalayan that four Europeans were killed in the Pandikkad war.  The Pandikkad incident describes the fact that Pandikkad army and police had been severely damaged, but no one was able to record it.According to historians and official records, there was no such conflict in Pookkottur. (Malabar Riot, Page 5, 1972).
K. Rajendran, freedom fighter and early editor of Mathrubhumi.  Madhavan Nair wrote about this struggle as follows:
"When the Mappilas invaded the camp of Kunjhammed Haji and Chembrassery, the Gurkha forces were inside. If there were no ordinary British soldiers, they would never have been able to resist this invasion of the Mappilas.
MSP Camp
In 1934, an MSP camp was established at Kolparamba, Pandikadu, as a place of riot.  The camp is located on 100 acres of land with Eriyad Mana and Pattikkadu Thottikalikal builders.  VT Bhattathiripad's "Kitchen From Arankatha" was staged at Chembrassery in Pandikadu. It was led by Comrade Kunjali in East Eranadu, as all the landowners who had exceeded the limit of the panchayat left the land.

The center of the Khilafat fight
In the book The History of Malabar Rebellion - 1921, R&H introduces the major centers of the Khilafat Rebellion of 1921: "Pandikkad, Melattur, Karuvarakund, Kalikkavu, and Vandur were parts of the heart of the region.  With the exception of very few people in these areas, everyone else was involved in the insurgency. ”(P. 54)
He wrote again: "In the early hours of August 21, 1921, there was an outbreak in Pandikkad area. The Jumma Masjid at Mampuram in Tirurangadi was destroyed by the British army.  On the same evening, the Mancheri Police Circle Inspector, on the orders of that evening, took out the constables of a head constable and seven constables from Pandikadu station and subdued the constables by subduing them.  Organized and marched to Velungadam and the bridge was demolished. "  (Page: 157,158) Shuhaib.op (talk) 17:38, 23 June 2020 (UTC)