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MANKADA Police Station

Mankada Police Station was opened on 30.08.2010 vide GO 180/2010 Home dtd 07.08.2010. This police station was inaugurated by Shri, Kodiyeri Balakrishnan, Hon’ble Minister for Home Tourism and Vigilance, Kerala in the presence of Shri Manhalaamkuzhi Ali, Hon’ble MLA of Mankada constituency, Shri B S Mohammed Yasin, IPS, IGP Thrissur range, K Sethuraman IPS, District Police Chief, Malappuram and other important dignitaries .Mankada Police Station is functioning in a rented building of Mankada Service Co-Operative Bank. . his place was originally part of the Valluvanad Swaroopam dynasty. Valluvanad was an erstwhile late medieval feudal state in present state of Kerala in South India extending from the Bharathapuzha River in the south to the Pandalur Mala in the north during their zenith in the early Middle Ages. On the west, it was bounded by the Arabian Sea at the port Ponnani and on the east by Attappadi Hills. According to local legends, the last Later Chera ruler gave a vast extension of land in South Malabar to one of their governors, Valluvakkonithiri and left for a hajj. The Valluvakkonithiri was also given last Later Chera ruler's shield (presumably to defend himself from the sword received by the Samoothiri (Zamorin) of Kozhikode, another governor, from the departing ruler). Not surprisingly, the Vellatiri rajas were hereditary enemies of the Samoothiri. Valluvanad is famous for the Mamankam festivals, held once in 12 years and the endless wars against the Samoothiri of Kozhikode. By the late 18th century, Vellatiri or Walluwanad proper was the sole remaining territory of the Walluvanad raja (Valluva Konatiri), who once exercised suzerain rights over a large portion of Southern Malabar. Although management of the country was restored to the Vellatiri raja in 1792, it soon became evident that he was powerless to repress the trouble that quickly broke out between Mapillas (favored by the Mysorean occupiers) and nayars (who sought to restore the ancien régime), and already in 1793 management of the district had to be resumed as the chief and his family fled to Travancore. Muhammad Ajmal k Of university of Delhi, was born on Mankada.