The village includes Anjarakandy Cinnamon Estate, established by the East India Company in 1767.[3] The estate, reputed to be Asia's largest, and the associated processing plant are still operational. Visitors are permitted to view the process of preparing cinnamon spice and extraction of oil. The local king, Pazhassi Raja and the British East India Company waged war for control of the estate.[4]
Lord Brown of the East India Company started a system of keeping a record of land transactions done by him to open Anjarakandy Cinnamon Estate. This triggered the opening of a new Department of Land Registration. The Land Registrar's office was built in 1767.[5]
Demographics
[needs update] As of the 2011 Census of India, Ancharakandy had a population of 23,030 which constitutes 10,646 (46.2%) males and 12,384 (53.8%) females. Ancharakandy census town spreads over an area of 15.45km2 with 5,245 families residing in it. The male female sex ratio was 1.163, higher than state average of 1.084. In Ancharakandy, 10.3% of the population is under 6 years age. Ancharakandy had an overall literacy of 97.3% higher than state average of 94%. The male literacy stands at 98.5% and female literacy was 96.3%.[6]
Religion
As of 2011 census, Ancharakandy census town had total population of 23,030 among which 82.75% are Hindus, 16.8% are Muslims and 0.45% others.[7]
History
The village includes Ancharakandy Cinnamon Estate, established by the East India Company in 1767.[3] The estate, reputed to be Asia's largest, and associated processing plant are still operational and visitors can view the process of preparing cinnamon spice and extraction of oil.
Asia's first Land Registrar's office is located in a 252-year-old building built in 1767 by Lord Brown.[5] The Kannur medical college, established in 2006, is equipped with a 500-bed super-speciality hospital. and Kannur dental college and super speciality hospital, Malabar institute of technology were established in 2010.
A national highway passes through Kannur city. Mangalore, Goa and Mumbai can be accessed on the northern side and Cochin and Thiruvananthapuram can be accessed on the southern side. The major roads passing through Anjarakandi town are Thazhe Chovva-Mattannur road which connects Kannur city and Mattannur town and Kannur International Airport, and Thalassery-Irikkur road which connects to cities of Mysore and Bangalore. The nearest railway station is Thalassery on Mangalore-Palakkad line. Trains are available to almost all parts of India subject to advance booking over the internet. There are airports at Kannur International Airport at Mattannur, 9km (5.6mi) from Anjarakkandy town, Mangalore and Calicut.
↑ Kerala, Directorate of Census Operations. District Census Handbook, Kannur(PDF). Thiruvananthapuram: Directorate of Census Operations, Kerala. p.192,193. Archived from the original(PDF) on 28 June 2020. Retrieved 14 July 2020.
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