Valluvanad

Valluvanad was a chiefdom in north-central Kerala, ruled from Angadipuram by the Vellattiri rajas. Independent after the Chera kingdom dissolved in the twelfth century, it guarded the Mamankam festival at Tirunavaya.

The Zamorins of Kozhikode seized Tirunavaya and the festival, prompting generations of Chaver warriors to challenge them there. Mysorean armies overran Valluvanad in the eighteenth century; in 1793 the British East India Company deposed its raja and made the territory Walluvanad taluk.