“Migration for land and mobility and the consequent expansion of the agriculture to thepreviously untamed areas has been an important facet of modern Kerala History.”1 The social, economic, demographic,the process of migration. The present state of Kerala was divided into three independent princely states under the paramountcy of the British Empire namely Travancore, Kochin and Malabar in those days.Both the British and the rulers of princely states were introducing administrative policies primarily for their benefits and the welfare of the people was only a secondary concern for them

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