Kasaragod | |
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Town | |
| Kasaragod | |
        Clockwise from top: Bekal beach, Chandragiri River, Chandragiri Fort, Ranipuram, Bekal Fort, Kavvayi Backwaters at Nileshwaram, Malik Dinar Mosque, and Arikady fort | |
| Nickname(s): The Land of Seven Languages, The Land of God[1] | |
 Kasaragod in Kerala | |
| Coordinates: 12°30′N 75°00′E / 12.5°N 75.0°E | |
| Country |  India |
| State |  Kerala |
| District | Kasaragod |
| Municipality Established | 1966 |
| Government | |
| • Type | District |
| • Body | Kasaragod Municipality |
| • Municipal Chairman | Abbas Beegum (UDF) |
| • District Collector | K Inbasekar IAS |
| • Superintendent of Police | P B Rajeev IPS |
| • MP | Rajmohan Unnithan |
| • MLA | N. A. Nellikkunnu |
| Area | |
• Town | 16.7 km2 (6.4 sq mi) |
| • Metro | 93.3 km2 (36.0 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 19 m (62 ft) |
| Population | |
• Town | 54,172 |
| • Density | 3,200/km2 (8,400/sq mi) |
| • Metro | 192,856 |
| Time zone | UTC+5:30 (IST) |
| PIN | 671121 |
| Telephone | +91 4994 |
| Vehicle registration | KL-14 |
| Official language | |
| Website | kasargod.nic.in |
Kasaragod (Malayalam: [kaːsɐrɐɡoːɖɨ̆]) is a municipal town and administrative headquarters of Kasaragod district in the state of Kerala, India. Established in 1966, Kasaragod was the first municipal town in the district. It is the northernmost district of Kerala and is also known as Sapta Bhasha Sangama Bhumi ('The Land of seven Languages').[1]
Situated in the rich biodiversity of Western Ghats, it is known for the Chandragiri and Bekal Fort,[5] Chandragiri River, historic Kolathiri Rajas, natural environment of Ranipuram and Kottancheri Hills, historical and religious sites like the Madiyan Kulom temple, Madhur Temple, Ananthapuram Lake Temple and Malik Deenar Mosque. The historic hill of Ezhimala is located on the southern portion of Kavvayi Backwaters of Nileshwaram.
Kasaragod is located 90 km north of Kannur city corporation and 50 km south of the Mangalore. Kasaragod district has the maximum number of rivers in Kerala - 12.[6] The town is located on the estuary where the Chandragiri River, which is also the longest river in the district, empties into the Arabian Sea. Kasaragod is home to several forts, including Arikady fort, Bekal Fort, Chandragiri Fort, and Hosdurg Fort. Bekal Fort is the largest fort in Kerala. Talakaveri, which is home to Talakaveri Wildlife Sanctuary where the 805 km long Kaveri river originates, is located closer to Ranipuram on the Kerala-Karnataka border.
Robert Caldwell describes the extent of Malayalam in the 19th century as extending from Chandragiri (fort and river) in the north to Neyyar river beyond Thiruvananthapuram in the south and from Malabar Coast in the west to Western Ghats in the east besides the inhabited islands of Lakshadweep in the Arabian Sea.[7][note 1]
- ^ a b "Cazrod - the land of seven languages". invest kerala. Government of Kerala. Retrieved 12 September 2020.
- ^ "The Kerala Official Language (Legislation) Act, 1969" (PDF). PRS Legislative Research. Retrieved 19 July 2018.
- ^ "Kasargod: Success for Kannadigas - Manjeshwar gets linguistic minority status". www.daijiworld.com. Retrieved 18 October 2024.
- ^ "52nd Report of the Commissioner for Linguistic Minorities in India" (PDF). nclm.nic.in. Ministry of Minority Affairs. Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 May 2017. Retrieved 29 March 2019.
- ^ "Draft Map" (PDF). keralaczma.gov.in. 2012. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 January 2021. Retrieved 22 January 2021.
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chaturmoovendanadiwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Caldwell, Robert (1998). A Comparative Grammar of the Dravidian Or South-Indian Family of Languages. Asian Educational Services. pp. 6, 16, 17–19, 20, 21–25, 31. ISBN 978-81-206-0117-8.
Malayalam is spoken along the Malabar coast, on the western side of the Ghauts, or Malaya range of mountains, from the vicinity of Chandragiri (river and fort) near Mangalore, where it supersedes Canarese and Tuļu, to Trivandrum, where it begins to be superseded by Tamil. The people by whom this language is spoken in the native states of Travancore and Cochin, and in the East India Company's districts of Malabar and Canara, may be estimated at two and a half millions. (Pages 6, 16, 20, 31)
- ^ Caldwell, Robert (1856). A Comparative Grammar of the Dravidian Or South-Indian Family of Languages. Harrison and sons. pp. 7, 62–63.
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