Malapuram

Malapuram lies among the hills of inland Malabar, near the Kadalundi River. Its name means a place on the hills, and it served as a military centre for the Zamorins of Calicut. The local chief Para Nambi governed from Kottappadi, while the surrounding country linked the coast with the wooded interior. In the eighteenth century Hyder Ali and Tipu Sultan extended Mysorean power over Malabar. A fort associated with Tipu stood on the hill above the river; after the treaty of Srirangapatna in 1792, much of Malabar passed to the East India Company.