User:Kuttanadan/Kainadi

Kainadi village is located in Neelam peroor grama panchayat. Its a small island consists of picturesque paddy fields and small canals. Demography consists of Hindu andd christian denominations.

It is the birth place of late Pallithanathu Lukka Mathai who was the member of Maharaja Sree Moolam Thirunal's Popular Assembly.He pioneered the backwater paddy cultivation,Kayal Cultivation in Kuttanadu.He is considered as the father of cooperative agricultural movement in Kuttanadu.He spearheaded the debt relief struggle and was instrumental in the enactment of Agricultural Debt Relief Act, that emancipated the illfated agriculture families from the debt trap.He was the founder of Kuttanadu Karshaka Sangham, which was considered as the voice of Kuttanad's farmers.

Though he belong to an aristocratic and orthodox syrian christian family he actvely supported his contemporary and social reformer Ayyankali's social movements.Ayyankali in a grant event accompanied by Snake boats made Panthi bhojana in the ancestoral home of Pallithanam as a token of protest against casteism. Pallithanathu mathaichan was one of the founder leaders of Catholic Congress.