2. ❑ ETTUKETT MALIKA WAS BUILT BY
KARANAVAR RAMAN NAMBISAN
WHO CAME TO NITOOR FROM
MECHILAT IN WAYANAD AND
SETTLED IN KAPPEKAT.
❑ TEN YEARS OF WORK BY
HUNDREDS OF WORKERS.
❑ THE TOTAL AREA OF THE
COMPLEX IS TWENTY THOUSAND
SQUARE FEET.
INTRODUCTION
3. ❑CONSTRUCTED IN 1831
❑192 YEARS OLD
❑ ETTUKETTU
❑4-5 GENERATIONS
❑200-230 MEMBERS OCCUPIED
❑LAST ABODE OR STAY IN 1981
❑ NAMBEESHANMAAR WHERE THE
RESIDENTS
4. ❑AREA OF BUILDING 24 CENT = 971.04 SQM
❑NO.OF ROOMS -64
❑200-230 MEMBERS OCCUPIED
7. ❑ PANTHEERADI FAMILY MEMBERS ARE BRAHMINS.
❑ THERE WERE ABOUT 2000 FAMILY MEMBERS .
❑PANTHIRADI FAMILY WAS ONCE A CENTER OF POWER
AND WEALTH.
❑THOUSANDS OF ACRES OF LAND INCLUDING MANY
HISTORICAL EVENTS, LEGENDS AND CUSTOMS OF THE
JANMITTA PERIOD ARE INTERTWINED IN THE PANTIRADI
ETTUKETT MALIKA.
❑MORE THAN 150 YEARS OLD.
HISTORY
8. ❑ONAPOTTANS GATHER AT THE NITTOOR PANTHEERADI FAMILY YARD TO SEEK THE
BLESSINGS OF THE PEOPLE.
❑ONLY THEN WILL THEY START HOME VISITS
❑THIS IS AN EXPRESSION OF GRATITUDE TO THE MALAYAN COMMUNITY FOR GIVING
THEM A PLACE CALLED VELLOLIPIL DECADES AGO TO BEAUTIFY ONAPOTAN.
CULTURAL AND TRADITIONAL
INFLUENCE
9.
10. ❑KAPPEKATU RAMAN NAMBEESHAN, THE FIRST
KARANAVAR OF PANTHEERADITHARAWAD, WAS
BELOVED BY THE LOCALS AS A PIOUS MAN.
❑NEELAKANDAN NAMBEESHAN WAS A FAMOUS
ASTROLOGER IN THE THIRD KARANAVAR THODUVA.
❑AT THAT TIME WHEN THE CASTE SYSTEM WAS
PREVALENT, HE TAUGHT ASTROLOGY REGARDLESS OF
CASTE AND RELIGION.
❑ IT IS SAID THAT SREE NARAYANAGURU CAME HERE
TO STUDY ASTROLOGY.
CULTURAL AND TRADITIONAL
INFLUENCE
12. ❑ TWO COURTYARDS,
❑ 64 ROOMS,
❑ SEVEN LARGE CHARADIS,
❑ MORE THAN ONE HUNDRED BEDS,
WINDOWS WITH LARGE KILIDOOR,
❑ CHAMBERS,
❑ KOTTATHALAM,
❑ SPACIOUS KITCHEN, ‘
❑ ANANTHASAYANAM' WOOD SCULPTURE
ABOVE THE MAIN ENTRANCE HALL.
❑ PRASUTIKALAYAM, PATTHAYAPURA AND
URAKKUTA HAVE BEEN DESTROYED BY
TIME.
SPACES
18. MATERIALS
❑LATERITE
❑JACK FRUIT TREE APPROX.501NOS
FLOORING MATERIALS
❑COWDUNG
❑MUD
❑LEAVES OF KULIRMAVU (MANGO) TREE
❑LIME KUMAYAM
❑5 LAYER OF TEAK LEAVES
❑COAL (CHEGIRI KARI)VELLILA
19. ❑ UNDER THE LEADERSHIP OF TRIBAL MEMBER PRADEEP KAPPEKAT, A SYSTEM WAS
CREATED TO PROTECT ETTUKETT FROM 1996.
❑ K. PRAKASHAN IS THE CHAIRMAN AND KUNIMMAL SUNDARESAN NAMBIESAN IS THE
CONVENER OF THE COMMITTEE.
❑ MANY PEOPLE, INCLUDING STUDENTS AND HISTORY RESEARCHERS, COME TO SEE
PANTHIRADI ETTUKETT
MAINTENANCE AND PROTECTION