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| Painting of Pazhassi Raja drawn by Raja Ravi Varma (1848 - 1906) displayed in Pazhassiraja Museum, Kozhikkode |
PAZHASI RAJA
Wayanad, a forest region mainly settled by the tribals in the 19th century was one of the active theaters of anti-British struggle in the malabar province under the english east india company. the local raja of wayand better known as the pazhassi raja was the leader and symbol of the popular resistance in this region over a decade.
He organized the war-like kurichiya tribals into a sort of people's militia and engaged the british in several guerrilla type encounters. in the end, the british could get only the dead body of the raja, who killed somewhere in the interior of forest .
