Manikandapuram

Manikandapuram was one of the seats of the rulers of Thekkumkoor in central Kerala. Their kingdom occupied inland country between the Western Ghats and the lowlands that lead towards the Malabar coast. Thekkumkoor maintained a relationship of subordination to Cochin, though conflicts between the two rulers also occurred. Before the arrival of the Portuguese at the end of the fifteenth century, Thekkumkoor and neighbouring Vadakkumkoor were already significant local powers. Their courts moved among several centres, of which Manikandapuram was one.