Socio-cultural Processes and Livelihood Patterns at Tirurangadi - CDS

cooperation movement and the subsequent ‘withdrawal’ of the Congress from mass
activities did not help their cause.
The social and economic conditions in the region continued to be dismal. The rebellion
and the ensuing state repression and lawlessness resulted in instable social and economic
conditions in the region. The landlord-tenant relations did not undergo any change during
the decade after the rebellion, and the landlords, who fled the region in the course of the
rebellion, returned once the political conditions returned to the normal, or in any case
retained their landed property and other assets in the region. Thus the misery of the
people was augmented by the losses and casualties they sustained during the rebellion
and immediately after. However, this did not result in any further rebellious activity in
the area, and we have to locate the reasons for this silence.
In order to understand the nature of changes that had taken place after 1921, we
reproduce below the data from the resettlement survey in 1935 for the three Desams,
Trikkulam, Parappanangadi and Peruvallur.
Table XXXIX
A: Classification of Land (acres and cents)
assessment Wetland garden Dry Total Unassessed Inam Poramboke Total
Revenue A/c
Resettlement
1081-22
1098-68
765-
55
962-
37
374-
63
160-
51
2221-
40
2221-
56
10-0
18-80
9-81
9-81
117-7
117-7
2367-
28
2367-
24
B: Classification of population (as per 1931 census)
No. of
inhabited
houses
Total population
male female total
Religion
Hindu Muslim
Population
per100acres of
others Cultivable Occupied
land land
1132 2456 3088 6044 1960 4065 19 221 227