Kolathiri or Kolathiri Rājā (King of Kolathunādu[1] or King of Cannanore[1][2][3][4][5] in foreign accounts) was the title by which the senior-most male along the matrilineal line of the Mushika or Kolathunādu Royal Family (Kolaswarũpam) based at North Malabar region was styled.[6][7] Descended from the Cheras, Pandyas, Cholas, and the Ay. The Indian anthropologist Ayinapalli Aiyappan states that a powerful and warlike clan of the Bunt community of Tulu Nadu was called Kola Bari and the Kolathiri Raja of Kolathunadu was a descendant of this clan.[8] The Kolathiri family and the Travancore family reciprocally adopted girl-children from each other for several centuries right into the 1990s.
Cultural depictions
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"Kolathiri" appears as a character in a Malayalam film titled Urumi. The film was loosely based on Portuguese interference in north Kerala and the misdeeds committed by Vasco da Gama, who was hailed as a hero in the west but was actually a cold-hearted tyrant to other lands of the spice route; his entry into Kerala politics and manipulating the kingpins and a young Indian who tries to kill Vasco da Gama. The movie was released on 31 March 2011.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 A. Shreedhara Menon (2007), A brief History of Kerala, DC Books, Kottayam
- ↑ Tuhfat-al-Mujahidin: An Historical Work in The Arabic Language{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. University of Madras(1942)
- ↑ Zamorins of Calicut: From the earliest times to AD 1806{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. Norman Printing Bureau, Kozhikode(1938)
- ↑ Malabar Manual (Volume-I){{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. Madras Government Press(1887)
- ↑ Madras District Gazetteers Malabar (Volume-I){{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. Madras Government Press(1908)
- ↑ Duarte Barbosa, The Book of Duarte Barbosa: An Account of the Countries Bordering on the Indian Ocean and their Inhabitants, II, ed.M. L Dames (repr., London: Hakluyt Society, 1921)
- ↑ The Dutch in Malabar: Selection from the Records of the Madras Government, No. 13 (Madras: Printed by the Superintendent, Government Press, 1911), 143.
- ↑ The Personality of Kerala{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. Department of Publications, University of Kerala(1982)