Pozhuthana

Plantation country gives Pozhuthana much of its identity. Tea gardens, coffee-growing tracts, streams and hill slopes surround this village to the west of Wayanad’s main urban centres. The panchayat’s account describes long links with the Kottayam royal lineage, followed by colonial-era expansion of estates and the arrival of plantation workers from different communities. Local oral tradition associates the name Pozhuthana with the abundance of flowing water in the area. Settlement and farming patterns changed again after land reforms and the development of village roads and schools. Achooranam, Athimoola, Peringoda and other named neighbourhoods belong to the wider Pozhuthana landscape. For a visitor, the locality offers a different experience from a large town: an everyday highland community whose history can still be read in its estates, cultivated land and village roads.