High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Kavalappara Swaroopam or Kavalappara is a former Hindu Nair feudal city-state in Malabar, South India. Kavalappara Swaroopam owed a sort of nominal allegiance to both the Cochin and to the Zamorin. Kavalappara Nairs were the vassals of the Zamorins of Calicut, and ruled some parts of Ottappalam, Chittur and Palakkad. According to local tradition, Kavalappara dates back to the legendary Cheraman Perumal, who gave his Nair a block of 12 square miles in Nedunganad that no other Nair wanted, as it was supposed to be all rock. The Nair accepted the land and, finding that it was not all rock, called it Kavalappara or false rock. At the peak of his glory, king of Kavalappara ruled some 96 village from Muttangal to Thottungal and from Bharathappuzha River to Mandakkottukurasi near Shoranur. The ruler of Kavalappara Swaroopam was known as Kavalappara Moopil Nair with headquarters was at Kavalappara Palace. Along with the other chiefs of South...

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