Raghava Chekavar
Raghava Chekavar, who was known as Ranakirthi Chekavar, was a Thalassery Thiyya native who was summoned by the Travancore Anizham Thirunal Marthanda Varma Maharaja to seize the Kayamkulam kingdom.
The history is as follows.[1][2][3] Pappan Chekavar, a Thalassery native who was a Thiyya Kalaripayattu expert and a mystic, served as the general-in-chief of the Chempazhanthipilla Raja at one time. Apart from that, Pappan Chekavar was also famous as a renowned royal physician in those days. This Chempazhanthipilla Raja was one of the eight Pillaimars in the old Travancore. Therefore, Chempazhanthipilla was the local king of the Maharaja Marthanda Varma and Pappan Chekavar was also a friend of the Marthanda Varma by mistake. At that time, a great desire in the mind of King Marthanda Varma was to conquer the entire kingdom of Cochin and beyond and expand the area of his kingdom. In addition, the shame of having fought and lost three wars with the kingdom of Kayamkulam remained in the mind of the Maharaja. But the truth was that his kingdom did not have enough military strength to conquer all the kingdoms in these areas at this time. He understood that the disadvantage for this was the fact that his kingdom did not have a clean army and also an able general.[1][4] The Maharaja met his friend Pappan Chekavar to solve this problem. Then Pappan Chekavar informed the Maharaja that he had a friend from Thalassery, a Thiyya, who was an expert in painting and also a horse rider, and his name was Raghava Chekavar. But at that time, Raghava Chekavar was serving in the army of the Zamorin Maharaja of Malabar. Knowing this, the Maharaja gave permission to take him to Travancore. After that meeting, Pappan Chekavar himself went to Malabar and secretly brought Raghava Chekavar to Travancore by sea. After Raghava Chekavar took control of the army, he became victorious in all the wars fought by Maharaja Marthanda Varma. In return, the Maharaja honored Raghava Chekavar by describing him as "Ranakirthi Chekavar".[1] Later, after the reign of Maharaja Anizham Thirunal Marthanda Varma, Ranakirthi Chekavar was called back to the army of the Zamorin Maharaja of Malabar.[1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 https://frenchify55.rssing.com/chan-24120500/all_p4.html
- ↑ K V Krishna Ayyar – The doyen of Malabar history
- ↑ Malabar Paithrukavum Pratapavum – article on Canoli Canal by TB Seluraj. Kozhikodinde Paithrukam – TB Seluraj
- ↑ Transport and communications in India prior to steam locomotion Vol 2 – Jean Deloche
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