Pangode village office

Pangode village was bifurcated from old Kallara village.The village is known for its participation in the Indian Independence Movement, through the Kallara-Pangode Struggle. It is situated on the foothills of Western Ghats.The village is known for its participation in the Indian Independence Movement, through the Kallara-Pangode Struggle. It is situated on the foothills of Western Ghats.This Pangode is a village on the north east of Trivandrum district, located 45 km north-east of Trivandrum (Thiruvananthapuram) city, the capital of Southern Indian state of Kerala.Pangode has a history of participation in Indian Independence Movement. The Civil Disobedience Movement led by Mahatma Gandhi found its ripples in the village and a section of village farmers resorted to tax resistance. They refused to pay taxes for selling commodities at the Pangode and nearby Kallara markets in September 1939. A few local progressive thinkers and leaders led this mass movement against the British Raj and its representative who was ruling the Travancore province at the time, C. P. Ramaswami Iyer. A series of events led to a bloody incident in which a charged mob of agitated farmers attacking the Pangode police outpost and killing a policeman.