Abstract
The plantation has been giving employment opportunities to a large number of people both directly and indirectly and as such it had a great role in the economic development of the area. It is the best example of an institution started by the colonial government in Malabar area. It is also an example for an institution in manifesting aspects of colonial rule. It attracted peoples from other areas and from nearby states and thus has been a cause for social mobility and changes in human ecology. The development of the plantations came of the destruction of the forest in the area and thereby affected the ecology. History is no longer confined to that of kings, countries, nations, social and economic movements etc., alone. It has become inter disciplinary and works have been appearing on non-conventional topics. The present attempt, it is hoped will contribute to such a historiography. Here the estates and plantation are treated not in their own right. But because of the amending effects it created in life and culture of the locality near the estate and thus much familiar with it and its surrounding. In the general study of the district and the state aspects like those of a plantation are often left unnoticed because in a grand narrative there is little for the history of a micro aspect.
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