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{{About|the taluk|the village|Chirayinkeezhu}}

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| name = Chirayinkeezhu taluk
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| subdivision_type1 = [[States and territories of India|State]]
| subdivision_name1 = [[Kerala]]
| subdivision_type2 = [[List of districts of India|District]]
| subdivision_name2 = Thiruvananthapuram
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| established_date = 1955
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| named_for = Chirayinkeezhu
| seat_type = Headquarters
| seat = [[Attingal]]
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| governing_body = [[Gram panchayat]]
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| area_rank = 5th
| area_total_km2 = 215.61
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| population_total = 3,39,785
| population_as_of = 2011
| population_rank = 4th
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| population_demonym = Chirayinkeezhuaite
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'''Chirayinkeezhu Taluk''' is a [[Taluk]] (tehsil) in [[Thiruvananthapuram district]] in the Indian state of [[Kerala]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://trivandrum.gov.in/trivandrum/index.php/chirayinkeezh-citizen-services-389?task=view |access-date=23 April 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091108053235/http://trivandrum.gov.in/trivandrum/index.php/chirayinkeezh-citizen-services-389?task=view |archive-date=8 November 2009 }}</ref> It is shares border with [[Varkala Taluk]] in North and with Thiruvananthapuram Taluk in South. It comprises 12 panchayats and Attingal Municipality. Chirayinkeezhu taluk is the birthplace of a host of illustrious personalities like the painter [[Raja Ravi Varma]], the great poet and social reformer [[Kumaran Asan]] and [[Prem Nazir]] etc.

==Settlements==
There are 16 villages and one [[Municipality|municipalities]] are in the taluk.<ref>[http://trivandrum.gov.in/trivandrum/index.php/chirayinkeezh-citizen-services-389?task=view Villages and municipalities] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091108053235/http://trivandrum.gov.in/trivandrum/index.php/chirayinkeezh-citizen-services-389?task=view |date=8 November 2009 }}</ref>

===Villages===
[[Alamcode, Thiruvananthapuram|Alamcode]], [[Azhoor]], [[Chirayinkeezhu]], [[Edakkode]], [[Kadakkavoor]], [[Keezhattingal (Village)|Keezhattingal]], [[Kilimanoor]], [[Ponganadu]], [[Koonthalloor]], [[Koduvazhannoor]], [[Mudakkal]], [[Nagaroor]], [[Pazhayakunnummel]], [[Perunguzhi]], [[Pulimath]], [[Sarkara-Chirayinkeezhu]], [[Vakkom]], [[Vellalloor]]
<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.keralahotels.com/new_site/thiruvananthapuram.html |access-date=23 April 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110713144207/http://www.keralahotels.com/new_site/thiruvananthapuram.html |archive-date=13 July 2011 }}</ref>

===Municipalities===
There one Municipality [[Attingal]].

==Places of tourist interest==
Chirayinkeezh has a network of [[Kerala backwaters|backwaters]] and [[canals]], which is quite typical of [[Kerala]]. Also there are many [[Temples]] and important tourist places.
Some of them are given below.

===Kilimanoor Palace===

The estate of Kilimanoor originally belonged to a [[Pillai (Kerala title)|Pillai]] ruling chief and was forfeited to Travancore by Maharaja Marthanda Varma. The estate comprising several villages was then handed over to the family of the father of the King who had come south from Parappanad in Malabar around 1718.<ref>(See page 4 in Madras Presidency Records, 1915, Supt , Government Press, Madras.)</ref>

In 1705 ([[Malayalam era|ME]] 880) the son and two daughters of Ittammar Raja of [[Beypore]] Thattarikovilakam, a [[Kolathunadu]] royal house, were adopted into the Royal house of [[Venad]]. Ittammar Raja's sister and her sons, Rama Varma and Raghava Varma, settled in Kilimanoor and married the now adopted sisters. [[Marthanda Varma]], the founder of the Kingdom of [[Travancore]], was the son of Raghava Varma. The nephew<ref>Sister's son. According to the matrilineal system prevalent at that time children born of the female members only belonged to that house.</ref> of Raghava Varma, Ravi varma Koil Thampuran, married the sister of Marthanda Varma. Their son became known as [[Dharma Raja]] Kartika Thirunnal Rama Varma.

In 1740 when an allied force,<ref>The forces were from Kochi, Thekkumkoor, Deshinganad (present kollam) and Purakkad who had enmity towards Marthanda Varma</ref> led by Dutchman Captain Hockert supporting the Deshinganadu King, attacked Venad, an army from Kilimanoor resisted and then defeated them. Although a small victory, this was the first time an Indian army had defeated a European power. In 1753, in recognition of this feat, Marthanda Varma exempted the areas controlled by the Kilimanoor palace<ref>Most of the area under the present Kilimanoor and ''Pazhayakunnummel'' [[panchayat]]s.</ref> from taxes, and granted them autonomous status.<ref>Although under his kingdom</ref> The present palace complex was built at this time, together with the Ayyappa temple.<ref>The original temple being at ''Nerumkaithakotta'', near Kozhikode</ref> for the family deity, ''Sastha'' or Ayyapan.<ref>It is also said{{by whom|date=November 2012}} Shaastha and Ayyappa are different</ref>

[[Velu Thampi Dalawa|Velu Thampi]] [[Dewan|Dalawa]] held meetings at Kilimanoor palace while planning uprisings against the British. He handed over his sword at the palace before going into his final battle against the British, and India's first President, Dr [[Rajendra Prasad]] received this sword from the palace and it was kept in the [[National Museum, New Delhi|National Museum]] in [[Delhi]]. Afterwards the sword was moved to the Napier Museum, Trivandrum.

[[File:studiorrv.jpg|thumb|right|Birthplace of [[Raja Ravi Varma]] with his studio in the foreground]]

[[File:Sarkara Devi Temple.jpg|thumb|right|[[Sarkara devi temple]]]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

{{Thiruvananthapuram district}}

[[Category:Geography of Thiruvananthapuram district]]
[[Category:Taluks of Kerala]]

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