Socio-cultural Processes and Livelihood Patterns at Tirurangadi - CDS

The research team had decided that the following features may be observed in the course
of walking;
a) Place names, its possible origins, and changes in place names, if any;
b) Extent of the region covered by a place name;
c) Land formations, like Paramba, vayal, pastures, rocky regions, slopes, low-
lying regions and the coastal zone;
d) Water resources, such as ponds, streams, wells, river streams, and low-lying
water pools like challi and kappu;
e) Nature of cultivation, including floral and faunal wealth, and the changes
occurring in the landscape due to changes in cultivation;
f) Nature of market centers, and the types commodities sold there;
g) Transport facilities, including roads, and water channels;
h) Houses , and their varieties, modes of construction, and the facilities;
i) Religious centers their location and nature;
j) Cultural centers, including reading rooms , clubs, Anganwadies, and other
centers;
k) Schools and health facilities;
l) Government buildings and offices of political parties;
m) Festivals and recreations;
n) Historical monuments and archeological findings , if any;
o) Any other feature of social or historical interest within the locality.
It was also decided that in order to facilitate walking, keeping in mind the general
directions mentioned above, a locality identified by a place name will be treated as the
unit of our walking. The place was used because ward divisions in all the Panchayats
have been based on the principle of even distribution of population for electoral or