Kingdom of Kottayam
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For the city at the centre of the kingdom, see Kottayam-Malabar.
Kottayam (Cotiote) is a former independent feudal city-state, in the present-day Indian state of Kerala, in the Indian subcontinent.[1] Kottayam (Cotiote) is famed for Pazhassi Raja, one of the principal leaders of the Wayanad Insurrection (Kotiote Palassi rebellion or Cotiote War). Pazhassi Raja was a member of the western branch of the Kottayam royal clan.[2] When Hyder Ali of the Kingdom of Mysore Mysore invasion of raided parts of Malabar in 1773, the Raja of Kottayam found political asylum in Travancore. In 1790, the British recognized Pazhassi Raja as the head of Kottayam instead of the original Raja who had taken refuge at Travancore.[3]
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