The main ancestry and the present residence of most of the nuclear families belonging to the Kandam kandath house is the Pallanchathanur village in Palakkad district, Kerala.
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Therefore, the name 'Kandam kandath' indicates the fact that several earlier generations of this joint-family had possessed hundreds of acres of rice-field which would amount for more than half of the village of Pallanchathanur, which meant defacto that these Mannadiars were the official village-headmen of the Pallanchathanur village for over two hundred years.
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The Kandam Kandath house (Kandam kandath joint-family) {Malayalam: Kandam kandath Tharavad} is one of the 16 remaining houses of the 18 original houses (padinettu veedu) of the Mannadiar clan, which in turn is a subclan of the Kshatriya Nair caste.
This village is home to the Elayatuhouse and Kandam Kandath house among the 16 remaining 'houses' joint families out of the 18 houses (padinettu-veedu) which once existed.