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Malackal Puthen Veedu

Malackal Puthen Veedu is in Panappamkunnu near Kilimanoor in Thiruvananthapuram district.This ancestral home is owned by K.Kesavan Unnithan.Kizhakkathinakam (Eastern building) is constructed of wood.Photographs of the bulding from different angles is given below

Kizhakkathinakam-Malakkal Puthen Veedu

Kalamandalam Ramachandran Unnithan

Kalamandalam Ramachandran Unnithan was born on March 8, 1951. His father is Vasu Pillai and mother is Gomathiamma.
After passing his 7th, he learned Kathakali in Kerala Kalamandalam from 1962 to 1975 and passed Diploma of 6 years and Post Graduation. He practiced Kathakali under Kareepra Vasu Pillai, Kalamandalam Ramankutty Nair, Kalamandalam Gopi and Sadanam Krishnan Kutty. His expertise is in in "Thadi" characters.

Has received Awards from Kollam Kathakali Club, Kottayam Kaliarangu, Alappuzha Kathakali Club, Alappuzha Kala Kshethram, Bombay Keli, and H.R.D. Fellowship.

Family: Wife Sreekumari, son Abhilash Kannan, daughters Ramya and Reshmi.

Contact Details: Kalamandalam Ramachandran Unnithan
'Sri Vilas'
Vettikattiri (P.O),
Thrissur
Kerala, INDIA.
Telephone: (91) 0488 472871

Paravur thekkumbhagam Puthiyakavu Devaswam

Paravur thekkumbhagam Puthiyakavu Devaswam is the ancestoral temple of Valiayaveedu Kudumbam.It is located 2Km away from Paravur(Kollam District) in Kappil -Varkala road.The temple with more than 500 years of history is now run by a governing body consists of 12 members.Family has now four branches and governing body consists of three members from each branch.

This is the only temple in south Kerala with two equally important 'SreeKovil",one for Bhadra and One for Durga.Also this temple is one of the few temples conducting "Villinmel Thukkam".Major festival is on the Bharani nakshathra of Kumbha month.

Temple-Front view

Paravur Thekkumbhagam Puthiyakavu Devaswam

Adoor Gopalakrishnan Unnithan

Moutatthu" Adoor Gopalakrishnan Unnithan (b. 3 July 1941) is a National Award winning Indian film director, script writer, and producer. Adoor Gopalakrishnan had a major role in revolutionizing Malayalam cinema. Adoor's first film Swayamvaram (1972) pioneered the new wave cinema movement in Kerala. Most of his films go to festivals around the world, and are released in Kerala. All the ten films he directed, from Swayamvaram to Oru Pennum Randaanum, were screened at several International film festivals and won him several National and International awards. He won National Film Awards fifteen times, Kerala State Film Awards seventeen times and also won several International Film Awards. He won the prestigious British Film Institute award for Elippathayam. Adoor received the Padma Shri in 1984 and the Padma Vibhushan in 2006. The Nation honoured Adoor for his valuable contributions to Indian cinema by awarding him the highest cinema award of India, the Dadasaheb Phalke Award for the year 2004. He is one among the very few Indian film makers who are well known in the international film fraternity.
Gopalakrishnan was born on 3 July 1941 in the village of Pallickal (Medayil Bungalow) near Adoor, present day Kerala, India as the son of Madhavan Unnithan and Mouttathu Gauri Kunjamma. He started his artistic life as an actor in amateur plays when he was 8. Later he shifted his base to writing and direction and wrote and directed a few plays. After securing a degree in Economics, Political Science and Public Administration in 1961 from the Gandhigram Rural Institute[1], he worked as a Government officer near Dindigul in Tamilnadu . In 1962, he left his job to study screenwriting and direction from the Pune Film Institute. He completed his course from there with a scholarship from the Government of India. With his classmates and friends, Adoor established Chithralekha Film Society and Chalachithra Sahakarana Sangham; the organization was the first film society in Kerala and it aimed at production, distribution and exhibition of films in the co-operative sector

Renowned Unnithans

Prabha Unnithan

Professor ofColarado State University .

B236 Clark (970) 491-6615 - prabha@lamar.colostate.edu
Editor, Social Science Journal

Ph.D., University of Nebraska-Lincoln
M.A., University of Saugar, Saugar, India
B.S., Karnatak University, Dharwar, India

FOCUS: Criminology & criminal justice; policy analysis & program evaluation; sociology of violence.

Unnithan (Malayalam: ഉണ്ണിത്താന്‍) is the modern form of the older title of Thankal(താങ്കള്‍). Unnithans were among the highest of the Nair aristocracy in the Travancore region of the Indian state of Kerala. Very often Unnithan ladies were married by the Rajahs or princes of the royal families such as Mavelikara, Ennakad, Prayikkara etc. They are found in majority in Central Travancore.
Unnithans were never addressed in gatherings by their first names but instead by their family names with the title of Eman (ഏമാന്‍, a corruption of Lord),and as Thankal, even by the Maharajahs. Their women used the honorific title of Kunjamma/ittiyamma, indicative of their greater status among the Nair community, where ladies unanimously used the title of Amma.
While other titles of nobility were used by members of various castes such as Panicker, Pillai, etc., Unnithan or Thankal was a title of high status reserved only for the highest class among the Nair aristocracy. All Unnithans were, in the past, addressed formally only as Thankal while the later term was a general surname.
These classes of Nairs dominated the civil, administrative and military elite of the Pre-British era in Kerala.The ban on their kalaris and personal army by the British along with the Land reforms in early 1900s and 1950s which lead to massive loss of land-ownership was a major blow to their social standing and power. However, they continued to be feudal Land-lords, and still owned large estates, till the Land Reforms Ordinance, which set a ceiling on the land holdings that a person or family could possess was enacted by the Kerala State Government which was the first communist state government popularly elected to power in India, which reduced many of these families to poverty overnight.
Unnithans from Ammachiveedu tharavadu of Kollam played a major role in the administration of Deshlnganadu.
Below is an excerpt from Edgar Thurston's "Castes and Tribes of Southern India":
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The titles Unnithan and Valiathan were owned by only a certain families in Central Travancore which were very wealthy and powerful. They were to some extent self constituted justices of peace and settled all ordinary disputes arising in the Kara (village) where they resided.