Attingal has witnessed it all. Forts have been breached and giants have fallen here that there is no room for complacency even for those who seem to be in complete control.
Back in 1721, the East India Company was sitting rather pretty when the local population launched an uprising, destroyed the company’s troops and took control of the Anchuthengu fort, in what came to be known as the Attingal Revolt.
In the political arena too, similar unexpected defeats have taken place, like that of former Chief Minister R. Sankar in 1967 to the Communist Party of India (Marxist)‘s K. Anirudhan or that of the CPI(M)‘s Susheela Gopalan to the Congress’ Thalekkunnil Basheer.
