For the town in Tamil Nadu,see Gudalur.

Kudallur is in the Palakkad district

Palakkad district

Palakkad District is one of the 14 districts of the Indian state of Kerala. The city of Palakkad is the district headquarters. Palakkad is bordered on the northwest by the Malappuram District, on the southwest by the Thrissur District and on the east by Coimbatore district of Tamil Nadu. The...

 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....

. It is in Ottappalam taluk, bordering Malappuram

Malappuram

Malappuram is a municipality in the South Indian state of Kerala, spread over an area of 33.61 km2. It serves as the administrative headquarters of Malappuram district. As per the 2011 census Malappuram urban agglomeration is the fourth largest UA in kerala with a total population of...

 district, also on the banks of Bharathapuzha. This village was originally in Ponnani taluk of Palakkad, before the formation of Malappuram district. The place is famous for its illustrious son writer

Writer

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 M. T. Vasudevan Nair

M. T. Vasudevan Nair

Madathil Thekkepaattu Vasudevan Nair , popularly known as MT, is an Indian author, screenplay writer and film director. He was born in Kudallur, a small village in the present day Palakkad District, which was under the Malabar District in the Madras Presidency of the British Raj...

. The other well known personality from here is artist

Artist

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 Achutan Kudallur. Kudallur is a calm and beautiful village having all the features of a true Valluvanadan Naatinpuram (countryside). It is at Kudallur, exactly at Koottakadavu the two rivers Nila and Thootha meet. Kudallur Hills, mentioned in M. T. Vasudevan Nair

M. T. Vasudevan Nair

Madathil Thekkepaattu Vasudevan Nair , popularly known as MT, is an Indian author, screenplay writer and film director. He was born in Kudallur, a small village in the present day Palakkad District, which was under the Malabar District in the Madras Presidency of the British Raj...

 stories are the another point of attraction. The village is in Anakkara Panchayath, Thrithala block i.e. in Ottapalam Taluk.

Links

1. http://www.kudallur.com/
2. http://kudallur.wordpress.com/
3. http://www.kudallurgramam.blogspot.com/

People

As the village has an agrarian economy a good number of people are indulged in agriculture and related jobs. Almost all the families depend on paddy fields, coconut estates and areacanut orchards for their daily life. 100 % of people are literate. This prestigious milestone was covered during the Saksharatha Yajna (Mission Literacy) in 1991. Muslims and Hindus reside here in an almost equal number. It is interesting that there lives only one Christian family in the village. But they have no Church here. The Muslims come under the Kudallur Mahallu (Parish). Pazhaya Palli, Majid u Thaqva, Manniyamperumbalam Masjid are the main masjids or Muslim worship centres. The first temple in Kerala is near Kudallur, in Panniyur. Vazhakavu, Malamalkavu and Siva Temple are the main Hindu religious centres in the village.

Festivals

The main rural festivals are Malamakkvu Pooram and Kudallur Nercha. Malamakkavu Pooram is celebrated at Malamakkavu Ayyappa Temple. Display of traditional art and dance forms are the points of attraction at Pooram. A number of elephants are displayed after decorating traditionally. A huge amount is being spent for fire works. Kudallur Nercha is observed in the bank of The River Bharathapuzha in the small hut which is supposed to be the Mausoleum of Martyr Komu. Band troupes, Elephants and traditional art forms such as Duffmuttu and Kolkkali are the main attractions.

The other Kudallur is located in Chittur

Chittur

Chittur is a small town in Palakkad district of Kerala, South India.-Politics:Chittur assembly constituency is part of Alathur .It contains 16 panchayats.-Demographics:...

 taluk, on the northern banks of Gayathripuzha

Gayathripuzha

Gayathripuzha River is one of the main tributaries of the Bharathapuzha River, the second-longest river in Kerala, south India. It originates from Anaimalai hills, passes through Kollengode, Nanmara, Alathur, Wadakanchery and Pazhayannur before joining the Bharathapuzha at Mayannur.-Other...

 River, a tributary of Bharathapuzha. Nemmara

Nemmara

Nemmara is a predominantly rural village in the Palakkad district of the state of Kerala in India. Nemmara and Vallangi form the two parts of this village.-Location:...

 is the nearest town from Kudallur. The late historian

Historian

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Prof.K V Krishna Iyer hails from this Kudallur.

Kudallur has an exclusive website now: http://www.kudallur.com. A website which has silly but interesting news about Kudallur is http://www.kudallurgramam.blogspot.com. For information in Malayalam try http://www.kudallur.wordpress.com.