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{{Infobox settlement<br />
| name = Dharmadom<br />
| other_name = <br />
| nickname = <br />
| settlement_type = [[Census Town]]<br />
| image_skyline = File:Ripe jackfruit.jpg<br />
| image_alt = <br />
| image_caption = Jackfruit from Dharmadam<br />
| pushpin_map = India Kerala<br />
| pushpin_label_position = right<br />
| pushpin_map_alt = <br />
| pushpin_map_caption = Location in Kerala, India<br />
| coordinates = {{coord|11.793550|N|75.4709320|E|display=inline,title}}<br />
| subdivision_type = Country<br />
| subdivision_name = {{flag|India}}<br />
| subdivision_type1 = [[States and territories of India|State]]<br />
| subdivision_name1 = [[Kerala]]<br />
| subdivision_type2 = [[List of districts of India|District]]<br />
| subdivision_name2 = [[Kannur district|Kannur]]<br />
| established_title = <!-- Established --><br />
| established_date = <br />
| founder = <br />
| named_for = <br />
| government_type = <br />
| governing_body = <br />
| unit_pref = Metric<br />
| area_footnotes = <br />
| area_rank = <br />
| area_total_km2 = 10.66<br />
| elevation_footnotes = <br />
| elevation_m = <br />
| population_total = 30,804<br />
| population_as_of = 2011<br />
| population_rank = <br />
| population_density_km2 = auto<br />
| population_demonym = <br />
| population_footnotes = <br />
| demographics_type1 = Languages<br />
| demographics1_title1 = Official<br />
| demographics1_info1 = [[Malayalam language|Malayalam]], English<br />
| timezone1 = [[Indian Standard Time|IST]]<br />
| utc_offset1 = +5:30<br />
| postal_code_type = [[Postal Index Number|PIN]]<br />
| postal_code = 670106<br />
| area_code_type = Telephone code<br />
| area_code = 91 (0)490<br />
| registration_plate = KL 58<br />
| blank1_name_sec1 = Nearest city<br />
| blank1_info_sec1 = Thalassery<br />
| blank2_name_sec1 = [[Human sex ratio|Sex ratio]]<br />
| blank2_info_sec1 = 1000:1202 [[male|♂]]/[[female|♀]]<br />
| blank3_name_sec1 = [[Lok Sabha]] constituency<br />
| blank3_info_sec1 = Kannur<br />
| blank4_name_sec1 = [[Vidhan Sabha]] constituency<br />
| blank4_info_sec1 = Dharmadam<br />
| website = {{URL|http://dharmadam.info}}<br />
| iso_code = [[ISO 3166-2:IN|IN-KL]]<br />
| footnotes = <br />
}}<br />
[[File:ധർമ്മടം തുരുത്ത് 2.jpg|thumb|Approaching Dharmadam island]]<br />
[[File:ധർമടം തുരുത്ത്.jpg|thumb|Dharmadam Island]]<br />
'''Dharmadom''' or Dharmadam is a [[census town]] in [[Thalassery]] taluk of [[Kannur district]] in the state of [[Kerala]], India.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.censusindia.net/results/town.php?stad=A&state5=999|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040616075334/http://www.censusindia.net/results/town.php?stad=A&state5=999|archive-date=2004-06-16|title= Census of India 2001: Data from the 2001 Census, including cities, villages and towns (Provisional)|access-date=2008-11-01|publisher= Census Commission of India}}</ref> This town is located in between [[Anjarakandi River]] and Ummanchira river, and [[Palayad]] town and [[Arabian sea]]. It is known for the 100-year-old [[Brennen College|Government Brennen College]] and [[Dharmadam Island]]. Dharmadam is also home to famous Andaloor Kavu. The annual festival here draws thousands of devotees. A variety of [[theyyam]]s are performed during the week-long fest in February. During the festive season the entire village follows vegetarian diet and offers rice flakes, jaggery and plantains to all guests. India's premier circus Academy, Circus Academy Thalassery is also located at Dharmadam. There is a small railway station in Dharmadam where only the local passenger trains stop.<br />
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Dharmadam was earlier known as '''Dharmapattanam''' and was previously a [[Buddhist]] stronghold.<br />
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The [[Dharmadam Island]] is located 100 metres away from the mainland at Dharmadam. Geographically, Dharmadam is an island, en route Thalassery and Kannur. It is surrounded by the [[Anjarakandi River]] on three sides and by the Arabian sea on the fourth side. The Jews and the Arabs have named this place '''Dahfattan''' in their records in the 12th century, the British named it '''Darmapatam''' and the Portuguese called it '''Darmapatao'''.<br />
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==History==<br />
The [[Kolathunadu]] emerged into independent 10 principalities i.e., [[Kadathanadu]] ([[Vadakara]]), Randathara or Poyanad (Dharmadom), [[Kingdom of Kottayam|Kottayam]] ([[Thalassery]]), [[Nileshwaram]], Iruvazhinadu ([[Panoor (Municipality)|Panoor]], [[Kurumbranad]] etc., under separate royal chieftains due to the outcome of internal dissensions.<ref name="Logan">{{Cite book|title=Malabar Manual (Volume-I)|last=Logan|first=William|publisher=Asian Educational Services|year=2010|isbn=9788120604476|location=New Delhi|pages=631–666}}</ref> The [[Nileshwaram]] dynasty on the northernmost part of [[Kolathiri]] dominion, were relatives to both Kolathunadu as well as the [[Zamorin]] of [[Calicut]], in the early medieval period.<ref name="Neeleswaram fete">{{cite news|url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-kerala/neeleswaram-fete-to-showcase-its-heritage/article2645520.ece | title=Neeleswaram fete to showcase its heritage | author=The Hindu staff reporter | website=The Hindu | date=21 November 2011 | access-date=24 November 2016 }}</ref><br />
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The Dharmadam region was also called ''Poyanadu'' due to the belief that Dharmadam was the ''place'' from where the last [[Legend of Cheraman Perumals|''Cheraman Perumal'']] king of Kerala took his final departure on the journey to [[Mecca]] and sailed to [[Mecca]].<ref name="Innes">{{cite book<br />
| author = Charles Alexander Innes | year=1908<br />
| title= Madras District Gazetteers Malabar (Volume-I) |page=451 <br />
| publisher=Madras Government Press<br />
| url= https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.358941/mode/2up<br />
}}</ref><ref name="Logan">{{Cite book|title=Malabar Manual (Volume-I)|last=Logan|first=William|publisher=Asian Educational Services|year=2010|isbn=9788120604476|location=New Delhi|pages=631–666}}</ref> It was originally a part of ''[[Kolathunadu]]'' earlier.<ref name="Logan"/> According to the [[Legend of Cheraman Perumals]], the first Indian mosque was built in 624 AD at [[Kodungallur]] with the mandate of the last the ruler (the Cheraman Perumal) of [[Chera dynasty]], who converted to Islam during the lifetime of [[Muhammad|Prophet Muhammad]] (c. 570–632).<ref>{{cite book |author=Jonathan Goldstein |title=The Jews of China |publisher=M. E. Sharpe |year=1999|isbn=9780765601049 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8Z6DlzyT2vwC |page=123}}</ref><ref name="SimpsonKresse2008">{{cite book |author1=Edward Simpson|author2=Kai Kresse|title=Struggling with History: Islam and Cosmopolitanism in the Western Indian Ocean|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=w0qHKA7zEaEC&pg=PA333|access-date=24 July 2012 |year=2008|publisher=Columbia University Press|isbn=978-0-231-70024-5|pages=333}}</ref><ref name="Kupferschmidt1987">{{cite book|author=Uri M. Kupferschmidt|title=The Supreme Muslim Council: Islam Under the British Mandate for Palestine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ChEVAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA458|access-date=25 July 2012|year=1987|publisher=Brill|isbn=978-90-04-07929-8|pages=458–459}}</ref><ref name="Raṇṭattāṇi2007">{{cite book|author=Husain Raṇṭattāṇi|title=Mappila Muslims: A Study on Society and Anti Colonial Struggles |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xlb5BrabQd8C&pg=PA179|access-date=25 July 2012|year=2007|publisher=Other Books|isbn=978-81-903887-8-8|pages=179–}}</ref> According to ''[[Qissat Shakarwati Farmad]]'', the [[Mosque|''Masjids'']] at [[Kodungallur]], [[Kollam]], [[Madayi]], [[Barkur]], [[Mangalore]], [[Kasaragod]], [[Kannur]], [[Dharmadam]], [[Koyilandy|Panthalayini]], and [[Chaliyam]], were built during the era of [[Malik Dinar]], and they are among the oldest ''Masjid''s in [[Indian Subcontinent]].<ref>Prange, Sebastian R. ''Monsoon Islam: Trade and Faith on the Medieval Malabar Coast.'' Cambridge University Press, 2018. 98.</ref> The 16th century ''[[Tuhfat Ul Mujahideen]]'' also states about the [[Mosque|''Masjid'']] at ''Dharmapattanam'' (Dharmadam).<ref name="Innes"/><br />
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The island of Dharmapattanam was claimed by all of the [[Kolathiri|''Kolattu Rajas'']], [[Kingdom of Kottayam|''Kottayam Rajas'']], and [[Arakkal kingdom|'' Arakkal Bibi'']] in the late medieval period.<ref name="Logan"/> The island of Dharmadam was ceded to [[East India Company]] in 1734, along with [[Thalassery]].<ref name="Innes"/><br />
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==Demographics==<br />
As of [[2011 Census of India|2011 Census]],, Dharmadam had a population of 30,804. Males constitute 45.4% of the population and females 54.6%. The average sex ratio was 1202 higher than state average of 1084. Dharmadam [[census town]] has an area of {{cvt|10.66|sqkm}} with 6,751 families residing in it. Dharmadom had an average literacy rate of 97.2%, higher than the state average of 94%: male literacy was 98.4% and, female literacy was 96.3%. In Dharmadam, 9.2% of the population is under 6 years of age.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Kerala |first1=Directorate of Census Operations |title=District Census Handbook, Kannur |publisher=Directorateof Census Operations,Kerala |location=Thiruvananthapuram |page=204,205 |url=https://censusindia.gov.in/2011census/dchb/3202_PART_B_KANNUR.pdf |access-date=14 July 2020}}</ref><br />
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==Education==<br />
*Govt. Brennen College, Dharmadam<br />
*Kannur University Thalassery Campus, Palayad<br />
*District Institute of Education Training, Palayad<br />
*Govt. Higher Secondary School, Palayad<br />
*Jeycee Special School, Dharmadam<br />
*Rotary Special School, Dharmadam<br />
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==Notable citizens==<br />
* [[Pinarayi Vijayan]]- Chief Minister of Kerala 2016 to present <br />
* M.N. Vijayan - Critic, writer and orator<br />
* [[N Prabhakaran]] - Writer<br />
* Valsalan Vathussery - Writer<br />
* M.P. Kumarn - Historian, translator.<br />
*Moorkoth Ramunni - First malayalee fighter pilot<br />
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==Access==<br />
* Road :Kanyakumari-Mumbai NH 66 (previously NH 17) passes through Dharmadam. Dharmadam is 3.5&nbsp;km away from the nearest city Thalassery. Frequent bus services from Thalassery to Andaloor, Meloor, Parapram and Kannur criss cross Dharmadam. Fast Passenger and Town to Town buses stop at Meethalepeetika in Dharmadam.<br />
* Railway: Dharmadam has a railway station where local passenger trains stop. Nearest major station is in Thalassery 3.5&nbsp;km from Dharmadam. Kannur railway station is 18&nbsp;km away.<br />
* Nearest airport -The Kannur International Airport is 25 km from Dharmadam.<br />
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==See also==<br />
* [[Muzhappilangad]]<br />
* [[Muzhappilangad beach]]<br />
* [[Dharmadam Island]]<br />
* [[Thalassery]]<br />
* [[Thalassery cuisine]]<br />
* [[Kannur]]<br />
* [[Palayad]]<br />
* [[Andalur]]<br />
* [[Mangalore]]<br />
* [[Sree Andalurkavu]]<br />
* [[Educational Institutes in Thalassery]]<br />
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==References==<br />
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