Marangattupally
Marangattupilly is a small village and headquarters of Marangattupally Grama Panchayat in Kottayam district, Kerala. Most of its people are either farmers or engaged in small-scale business. Famous politician K M Mani, was born and brought up in this village. Another famous personality from this village is Santhosh George Kulangara. T K Jose IAS is from this village. The nearest towns to Marangattupilly are Uzhavoor and Kuravilangad, and nearest villages are Kadaplamattom, vayala, mannackanad, kurichithanam and Andoor.
It is a trading center of natural rubber and majority of people are engaged in rubber cultivation. Marangattupilly has a health center, a police station, a veterinary center, Lions Club and High School- St. Thomas H.S., one cooperative bank (Marangattupally Service CoOperative Bank), and a branch of State Bank of Travancore(SBT), a telephone exchange, electricity board office, a petrol/diesel pump and few shops and a market. It belongs to Kaduthuruthy legislative constituency and Kottayam LS constituency.
Source - Wikipedia [Mar 2021]
Marangattupilly have a history of 1000 years, initially under the Kingdom of Vadakkancoor. In Malayalam year 925, when the King Marthanda Varma defeated Kingdom of Vadakkancoor Marangattupilly become part of Kingdom of Travancore. Marangattupilly also has its share in freedom fighting, with David Mappila Muthirakalayil, M. M. Kurian Mattathumanal, A.N. Sankaran Nair Anthanattu, P. R. Achuthan Edappattupadavil, T John Pulikkiyil, Gopalan Nair who were active in the State Congress.
Marangattupilly stands for the "region of trees and forest". As Wikipedia itself uses, MARANGATTUPILLY is the correct and commonly used name of the place, instead of marangattupally.
Marangattupilly Gramapanchayath in Meenachil Thaluk consists of Kurichithanam, Elackad (Part), Monipally(Part) revenue villages, with a Population of 21219 and area of 37.58 square kilometres (14.51 sq mi) divided into 14 wards. Established on 1953, this was initially called Elakkad Panchayath. This is a village which maintains peace and harmony among the people living here. The majority of the families in this village are middle class, mostly farmers, but in the recent times as agriculture has lost its value, a lot of people are going abroad, and this is one of the main reasons for the upliftment of this village.
