 This place was originally part of the Valluvanad Swaroopam dynasty.Valluvanad was an erstwhile late medieval feudal state in present state of Kerala in South India extending from the Bharathapuzha River in the south to the Pandalur Mala in the north during their zenith in the early Middle Ages.On the west, it was bounded by the Arabian Sea at the port Ponnani and on the east by Attappadi Hills.