Pulakottu Madams

Pulakottu Madams

Compiled by

Raja Thatha

(Pure recollection of a  very old man .Mistakes  might have been there.Please pardon)

Pulakkottu madams  are families who have  their original homes in Pulacode. Pulacode  is a very small village near Chelakkara About 5000  people  live in this village  with  nearly  1000 homes as of now .It must have been  very much smaller about 60 years back. At that time where 8 ? Brahmin houses  there. Brahmins of the eight houses  belonged to one clan  and the ninth  house was  an outsider  Vekiteswaran(referred to  as Kadangodan or Minor  Vekateswaran).His mother belonged to Pulacode   and was given in marriage to a person  from a Village outside(possibly Kadangode).His  father died early and his mother returned to her village.Because  he was rich and young , and was even  magistrate in the  Magistrate   court of Chelakkara

   Since one of the persons of that village was my father’s uncle  I used to visit  the village  very often.My father’s uncle was one Veeramani .There was   also another  Veeramani(referred to as Pothan Veeamani because he was fat), one Lakshmanan, One Krishnan(who was referred to asAnnadatha because he used  to repeat  Annadatha Sukhee bhava) , one Raman ?and two  more houses(I have completely  forgot about them),Adjoining the village  there is one Kathyayani temple    and a temple tank.Very near it there  was an ambala vasi family  of Varriars.

  In my village Chelakkara   there were  three  prominent families (Chamu mama, Pichu Mama  , Restral  Narayana Iyer and one Meppadam Ramachandran) ,Sri P V Veeramani of pulakott madam Puthucode was my co brother), There was one ammanchi family  and Plakottu Krishnan and his family  known to us In puthucode  .Possibly there may be more Pulakottu madams there,.

       Pulacode  used to  grow luxurious   paddy crop.Possibly all the land were  owned  by few families in Puthucode(called  Pulakottu madams). For   cultivation under their supervision  eight families  migrated to Pulacode and 3-4  families  migrated to Chelakkara. Those in Chelakkara  and Puthudcode   were slightly well off and those living in Pulacode village   were  middle class families .All of them except one family have migrated  outside the village.When Pulakode visited it 20 years back, there  was just one Brahmin lady with her slightly retarded  daughter was living there.I understand that  now one person who  was working in Mumbai has gone back to the village and is living there

      I spent almost a day  in search of a  photo of  Kathyayani temple of Pulacode online.I could not get  .One member  of the great family lives near me  in Bangalore.He had a great photograph  of Goddess  Karthyayani.

I am posting it here  as the greatest gift for all people  of Pulakottu madams in the world.