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Rajapuram Colony in the present Kasargod District on February 2, 1943. A group of 72 selected families from Kidangoor, Koodalloor, Punnathura and Pala came by train to Kanhangad and proceeded to their destinations at Chullikara, Rajapuram, Kallar and Malakkallu. The second settlement was to Madampam, 30 Kilometers East of Kannur on March 8, 1943. 100 families mostly from Meenachil Taluk traveled by train to Kannur and settled at Madampam and Payyavoor. The settlement was named after the bishop, Alexnagar colony, in the present Kannur District. The idea of organized migration was envisaged and presented to the Bishop by Professor Joseph Kandoth, who was then a professor at the St. Alosius College in Manglore. This migration had a significant demographic and social impact as the Christian population of Malabar increased 15-fold from 31,191 in 1931 to 442,510 in 1971.
388:"Kanappuratheku Oru Prayanam", book written and published by Abraham Nedungatt who was a member of one of the 100 families migrated to Alex Nagar Colony in Madampam in 1943. He later became the first Priest from the migrants and served the Kottayam Diocese for 26 years and in 1993 left priesthood and married and settled in Chicago, USA. His book is a first hand description of the Malabar migration published in 2013, the 70th anniversary of the Migration.
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