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Vengalil family
The Vengalil family is an aristocratic South Indian family that was extremely powerful in Kerala during much of the British Raj. Closely affiliated with the dewanship of Travancore and related to the royal families of Cochin and Travancore, the Vengalil family were ranked among India's greatest landowners until the rise of communist government in Kerala, owning such cotorversial regions as the hydroelectric power center of Kuttiyadi.
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