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The Gramam of Palakkad trace their story to a love story of a Kochi Prince who fell in love with a tribal girl of Palakkad. He was banished from his kingdom and the brahmins of Kochi refused to formalise the ceremonies when he settled in Palakkad. The prince did not give up and requested the brahmins from Tamil Nadu to oblige him. They did so and settled down in Palakkad. The area which they inhabited and its surrounding came to be known as gramam or agraharam. The gramam today encompass the areas of Kalapthy, Kumarapuram, Ramanathpuram, Ambikapuram, Chokkanathpuram. There are around 35 families that still follow the customs of the Tamil brahmins, viz., vedas and shashtra are passed down verbally from one generation to another.