About the name Anjengo
About the name Anjengo
The dark and untold history of ANCHUTHENGU, but the facts witch nowhere was scribbled down in the pages of history or it can be said that the history is written but a bit space was provided even though the facts was unprecedented.
The name ANCHUTHENGU literally means five coconut trees in Malayalam language. The first and real name was anhinga. When we trace the history of the word we could find that it was the mixture of Malayalam and Tamil languages. When the Portuguese and the British’s pronounced anchingal, they were not able to pronounce as anjengo.
There is another two stories among the people. The first one was goes like this, there was five pillars built by the British for the people coming with head loads to keep it down for rest. These five pillars called by the local people as anchuthaangu, is later known as ANCHUTHENGU. The second story was goes like this; there was a coconut tree with five head in the seeds. The local Hindu people believe this tree as one of there goddess and named the place ANCHUTHENGU.
Historical evidence of 1908 pronounces ANCHUTHENGU as anchingal and anjengo .Robert Sevel, a historian also mentions anjengo or anchingal in his book called ‘A detailed study of historic places’. ANCHUTHENGU also had great contribution in the socio – cultural field which had proved its importance in the great novel of C.V.Raman’s Dharma raja and the great message poem Unnuneeli sandhesam.
In the English literature and in the western history ANCHUTHENGU had given a great importance. It’s a golden memory strike a chord always to say that the most renowned historian Robert Orme was born in ANCHUTHENGU on 1728. At that time his father Alexander Orme was the British governor of ANCHUTHENGU.The Voyage of Ives Edward is a good book to refer how ANCHUTHENU was at the early. The writer in this book had explained his splendid days in ANCHUTHENGU.
ANCHUTHENGU had been the birth place of Elisa. The great character that became very eminent through the poems of Abbe Reynal and the novelist Sterne. That is how ANCHUTHENGU had known as Elisa in the early ages, and this is also very interesting to see that ANCHUTHENGU had given five pages to scribble in abbe Reynal's text. Its each line begins addressing anjengo or Elisa, anjengo thou are a bit land of earth, but thou are great as given birth Elisa.
The name Meeran kadavu evolved from a tax collector called Meeran. But after construct the bridge, the bridge came to known in such name.
The history walked in the end of centuries through ANCHUTHENGU.
The dark and untold history of ANCHUTHENGU, but the facts witch nowhere was scribbled down in the pages of history or it can be said that the history is written but a bit space was provided even though the facts was unprecedented.
The name ANCHUTHENGU literally means five coconut trees in Malayalam language. The first and real name was anhinga. When we trace the history of the word we could find that it was the mixture of Malayalam and Tamil languages. When the Portuguese and the British’s pronounced anchingal, they were not able to pronounce as anjengo.
There is another two stories among the people. The first one was goes like this, there was five pillars built by the British for the people coming with head loads to keep it down for rest. These five pillars called by the local people as anchuthaangu, is later known as ANCHUTHENGU. The second story was goes like this; there was a coconut tree with five head in the seeds. The local Hindu people believe this tree as one of there goddess and named the place ANCHUTHENGU.
Historical evidence of 1908 pronounces ANCHUTHENGU as anchingal and anjengo .Robert Sevel, a historian also mentions anjengo or anchingal in his book called ‘A detailed study of historic places’. ANCHUTHENGU also had great contribution in the socio – cultural field which had proved its importance in the great novel of C.V.Raman’s Dharma raja and the great message poem Unnuneeli sandhesam.
In the English literature and in the western history ANCHUTHENGU had given a great importance. It’s a golden memory strike a chord always to say that the most renowned historian Robert Orme was born in ANCHUTHENGU on 1728. At that time his father Alexander Orme was the British governor of ANCHUTHENGU.The Voyage of Ives Edward is a good book to refer how ANCHUTHENU was at the early. The writer in this book had explained his splendid days in ANCHUTHENGU.
ANCHUTHENGU had been the birth place of Elisa. The great character that became very eminent through the poems of Abbe Reynal and the novelist Sterne. That is how ANCHUTHENGU had known as Elisa in the early ages, and this is also very interesting to see that ANCHUTHENGU had given five pages to scribble in abbe Reynal's text. Its each line begins addressing anjengo or Elisa, anjengo thou are a bit land of earth, but thou are great as given birth Elisa.
The name Meeran kadavu evolved from a tax collector called Meeran. But after construct the bridge, the bridge came to known in such name.
The history walked in the end of centuries through ANCHUTHENGU.
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ReplyDeleteI am a Malaysian and am trying to trace my roots. I do remember my mother mentioning Anjengo. We are wondering as to whther there is any mixed blood in our family as i remember my grandma n aunts using dress instead of sarees. Hope someone out there can assist me as to how i can go about tracing my roots. Thank you.