Kalpakancheri is a Gram panchayat

Gram panchayat

Gram panchayats are local self-governments at the village or small town level in India. As of 2002 there were about 265,000 gram panchayats in India. The gram panchayat is the foundation of the Panchayat System. A gram panchayat can be set up in villages with minimum population of 300...

 and tiny village in Malappuram district in the state of Kerala

Kerala

or Keralam is an Indian state located on the Malabar coast of south-west India. It was created on 1 November 1956 by the States Reorganisation Act by combining various Malayalam speaking regions....

, South India

South India

South India is the area encompassing India's states of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu as well as the union territories of Lakshadweep and Pondicherry, occupying 19.31% of India's area...

. The name was chosen as it was the land of coconut trees.

The Panchayath has many schools and had a weekly market on Wednesday. The weekly market was held in present day Melangadi, on between Puthanathani

Puthanathani

Puthanathani is a fast-growing small inland town located in Athavanad, Malappuram district, Kerala, South India. The town lies on the National Highway 17 , between Kottakkal and Valanchery. Roads to Vailathur and hence Tirur and Thirunavaya also can be seen there...

 and Kadungathukundu

Kadungathukundu

Kadungathukundu is a town near Tirur on the way to Valancheri, in the Malappuram district, Kerala, south India. It is situated on the border between Valavannur and Kalpakancheri Grama panchayats. Kadungathukundu is the main town of the Valavannur Gramapanchayat...

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The bigger towns like Tirur

Tirur

Tirur is a town and a municipality in Malappuram district in the Indian state of Kerala spread over an area of 16.55 km2 . It is birth place of Thunchathu Ramanujan Ezhuthachan, the father of Malayalam literature. Thunchan Parambu is highly venerated and its sand is believed to be sacred. The...

, Kottakkal

Kottakkal

Kottakkal is a town and a municipality in Malappuram District in Kerala, south India. It has 32 Wards. The National Highway 17 separates the municipality from Edarikkode Panchayath on some part in the west. It is an Eranadan town located 12 km south-west of Malappuram, the district...

 and Valanchery

Valanchery

Valanchery is a town located in Malappuram district, Kerala, India.Valanchery is one of the most important business centres of Malappuram district. It is situated 63 km south of Kozhikode or Calicut and 62 km north to Thrissur, on the National Highway 17.Over 90% of the population are...

 are about just 8 or 9 kilometers away. This was a part of the Vettattnad

Vettattnad

Vettathunad or Tanur swaroopam was a small erstwhile feudal kingdom in southern Malabar on Arabian Sea in southwest India ruled by a Hindu dynasty known as Tanur dynasty, over whom the Zamorin of Calicut claimed certain nominal suzerain rights.The King was called 'raja'or 'thampuran' or...

 kingdom in medieval times. Lord of Azhvanchery and Lord of Kalpakancheri were used present at the coronation of a new Zamorin of Calicut

History of Kozhikode

Kozhikode , also known as Calicut, is a city in the southern Indian state of Kerala. It is the third largest city in Kerala and the headquarters of Kozhikode district....

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Some 20,000 people attended a Khilafat Movement

Khilafat Movement

The Khilafat movement was a pan-Islamic, political campaign launched by Muslims in British India to influence the British government and to protect the Ottoman Empire during the aftermath of World War I...

 meeting held in Kalpakancheri just before the Mappila rebellion. During the 1921 Mappila rebellion, a Muslim gang under the leadership of Odayappurath Chekkutty from Kalpakancheri guarded Kizhake kovilakam and Arya Vaidya Sala of Kottakkal

Kottakkal

Kottakkal is a town and a municipality in Malappuram District in Kerala, south India. It has 32 Wards. The National Highway 17 separates the municipality from Edarikkode Panchayath on some part in the west. It is an Eranadan town located 12 km south-west of Malappuram, the district...

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Demographics

India census

Census

A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring and recording information about the members of a given population. It is a regularly occurring and official count of a particular population. The term is used mostly in connection with national population and housing censuses; other common...

, Kalpakancheri had a population of 31263 with 14801 males and 16462 females.