Teekoy

Teekoy is a Southern Indian village, situated in the celebrating the annual festivals, feasts in church etc. Kereastern part of Kottayam district in Kerala, between alas own culture exists here in vibrant form. There is
Vagamon, Erattupetta and Thalanadu.
only a moderate level of political activity, Indian National
Congress and Kerala Congress (M) are the dominant parties, hence hardly any social divisions over politics. Adv.
Justine Jacob (Kerala Congress (M)) was the youngest
1 Geography
President of Teekoy at his age of twenty seven.
People at Teekoy are educated and self-employed or employed either in government, private or abroad. This
place is blessed dierent kind of educational institution
and various industries. St. Marys High School, now
more than six decades old has played a vital role in providing education to the sons of Teekoy. Compared to other
villages, the infrastructure is also better.

Teekoy is a typical Kerala village, which is a mixture of

the features of both midland countryside and the Malanad
hill area, enveloped in greenery with a clean and unpolluted atmosphere. Teekoy as a village is medium- sized
but as a panchayat, is quite long, covering many areas like
Aniyilappu, Mavadi, vellikulam, Thalanad, Adukkom
etc. and stretching about 20 kilometres reaching up to
the Wagamon area, at about three thousand feet above
sea level. This place is known for its agriculture and landscape. It is full of hills and valleys in the middle of which
ows the Meenachil river (made famous by Arundhati
Roy's novel, The God of Small Things).

4 Climate

Teekoys climate has a heavy rain season and mild summer. Summer rains are not infrequent. With hills in the
backdrop, it never gets very hot, and the climate tends
2 People
towards windy and cool. Teekoy can't be considered as a
rural village, the people are educated and employed. This
Large scale settlement in Teekoy began more than 100 place is blessed with dierent kind of educational instituyears ago. It has resemblance to a tropical rain-forest tions and various industries. Compared to other villages,
area with all kinds of trees like teak, jackfruit, etc., found the infrastructure is also better.
in the Western Ghats region growing profusely besides
coconut, rubber, arecanut and other crops. It is a very
fertile area. The rst large rubber plantation in India was
established in Teekoy. Here most of the people are farmers and they cultivate rubber, elachi, ginger, cardamom,
clove, nutmeg, turmeric, pepper, cashew and other spices.
Considerable variety of medicinal plants also grow here
which have been used in making the traditional home
remedies. Most of the people are Christians, but there
are also Muslims and Hindus. There are some third or
fourth generation Tamil people, descendants of workers
who came to work in the rubber plantations in Teekoy
many decades ago. Before Independence in 1947 Teekoy
had some English people who had set up rubber plantation here. As a legacy of the colonial era a cantiliver
bridge still connects the two banks of the Meenachil river
two kilometres above Teekoy town.

Culture

Teekoy is a rural but modern village with a predominantly

hilly topography. It has a dominant village culture, with
1

5 TEXT AND IMAGE SOURCES, CONTRIBUTORS, AND LICENSES

Text and image sources, contributors, and licenses

5.1

Text

Teekoy Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teekoy?oldid=736074813 Contributors: Utcursch, Pearle, RussBot, Brandon, Chris the
speller, Ser Amantio di Nicolao, Renjith4969, CmdrObot, Ssilvers, Meredyth, T@nn, Tinucherian, The Anomebot2, Springdews95, Skumarla, Anaxial, TreasuryTag, Lou.weird, WikHead, Damiens.rf, Lightbot, Mathewbibin, Wrelwser43, Paalappoo, PrinceRegentLuitpold,
Chikru, Deville 56, ChrisGualtieri, Khazar2, Georgekuttykurian and Anonymous: 27

5.2

Images

File:Flag_of_India.svg Source: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/41/Flag_of_India.svg License: Public domain Contributors:

? Original artist: ?
File:India_Kerala_location_map.svg Source: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6c/India_Kerala_location_map.svg
License: CC BY-SA 3.0 Contributors: Own work, using
United States National Imagery and Mapping Agency data
World Data Base II data
Original artist: NordNordWest
File:India_location_map.svg Source: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/dc/India_location_map.svg License: CC BYSA 3.0 Contributors: Own work Original artist: Uwe Dedering at German Wikipedia
File:Locator_Dot.svg Source: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e9/Locator_Dot.svg License: Public domain Contributors: Locator Dot.gif: <a href='//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Locator_Dot.gif' class='image'><img alt='Locator Dot.gif' src='https:
//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/01/Locator_Dot.gif' width='24' height='24' data-le-width='8' data-le-height='8' /></a>
Original artist: Petr Dlouh
File:Question_book-new.svg Source: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/99/Question_book-new.svg License: Cc-by-sa-3.0
Contributors:
Created from scratch in Adobe Illustrator. Based on Image:Question book.png created by User:Equazcion Original artist:
Tkgd2007
File:Red_pog.svg Source: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/0c/Red_pog.svg License: Public domain Contributors: ? Original
artist: ?

5.3

Content license

Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0