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Above image: A single story spacious bungalow with wide veranda and high ceiling supported by masonry pillars. The structure has deep sloping tiled roofs the jet out to drain out water and to make the outer walls free from wetness. Apart it cuts down radiation and the efforts of intense sunlight falling on the facade that may heat up that part. Widows are space appropriately for air circulation internally. aKerala receives high rain falls during the SW Monsoon season beginning in late June and lasting a couple of months. verandas and high ceilings View the gable over the entrance and other parts. The structure is built on a gently raised platform..........
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Above: Arthur Wellesley- first Duke Wellington (1769-1852), was an Anglo-Irish army officer and statesman who was one of the leading military and political figures in Britain during the late 18th and early 19th centuries en.wikipedia.org.........
Lord Arthur Wellesley's Bungalow, close to Thalassery Fort in Kerala, is a vestige of early colonial period under the East India Company, Set in a calm and tranquil site that was once owned by the colonial administrator of Madras Presidency T. H. Baber, the then Sub-Collector of Malabar. This bungalow was built on a model followed in Bengal (the birth palace of Bungalows in the colonial period) for Wellesley (later Duke of Wellington) for his sojourn here.
What made Wellesley come to this part of Malabar? He had a significant presence in Kerala, particularly in Wayanad, during the colonial time, Arthur Wellesley an Irish-born soldier of the British Army and brother of the then British Governor General Richard Wellesley (Marquees Wellesley) was asked to command the British army to against the resistance of Pazhassi Raja, a local ruler who opposed the East India Company. He was the commander of the English army that confronted Pazhassi Raja in the Cotiote War (1793-1805). In spite of his careful planning and strategies, Wellesley could make only futile attempt to catch the local ruler whose army men fought bravely, adopting Guerrilla attacks on the English men as the terrain was a thick wooded mountainous area. Subsequently, he left India for good and was later called the Duke of Wellington. His fame became part of world history when he decisively won the war against Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo in 1815. philaindia.info
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Above images: Indian stamp and postal cover in honor of Pazhassi Raja (Kerala Varma),Wayanad, Kerala. British Commander Arthur Wellesley could not defeat him during his tenure in Kerala. In the final Mysore Angelo war in 1799, it was the troop led by Arthur Wellesley secretly entered the Srirangapatna Fort (Karnataka) and finally shot dead Tipu Sultan. who bravely resisted the English company;s army........
it is often mentioned it was Wellesley who made Cricket, a popular game in this part of Malabar region. The credit goes to him for his commitments to popularise a game that was unknown before his arrival.
Th wide open space around the site was converted in a Cricket play ground and Wellesley used to play Cricket with his collogues whenever he got time off between tight official work. Though official records are not available it was in this place Wellesley and others taught the local people how to play the game that in the last several decades a famous and money-spinning sports in India and abroad.Thus he slowly nurtured the growth of Cricket in this part as a medium of recreation and entertainment
The colonial bungalow was named after him to honor him for having made Cricket, exclusively an English game, popular in this SW part of the sub continent. The Bungalow is now the official residence of the District Sub-Collector and is located in a serene, tranquil surrounding.
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https://www.keralatourism.org/thalassery/harbour-town/wellesley-bungalow.
https://www.navrangindia.in/2021/01/col-arthur-wellesley-and-his-defeat-in.html
https://www.thrillophilia.com/destinations/thalassery/places-to-visit
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