page_title: Arakkal kingdom
section_title: Ali Rajas and Arakkal Beevis
hierarchical_section_title: Arakkal kingdom / Ali Rajas and Arakkal Beevis
caption_attribution_description: English: Sulthana Arakkal Ayisha Muthu Beevi (Ruled 1998-2006 ) (Photo by Ziyad Arakkal Adiraja) Present Arrakal Beevi Is Sulthana Aysha alias Sainaba Beevi..She was sworn in as Arakkal Beevi on July 2006..after the death of Sulthana Aysha beevi..The present Arakkal Beevi is Settled down in Tellicherry With her Daughter Saheeda Adi Raja.
context_page_description: Arakkal kingdom was a former city-state on the Malabar Coast, ruled by a dynasty of the same name. The ruling King was called Ali Raja and the ruling queen was called Arakkal Beevi. Arakkal kingdom included little more than the Cannanore town and the southern Laccadive Islands, originally leased from the Kolattiri. The royal family is said to be originally a branch of the Kolattiri, descended from a princess of that family who converted to Islam. They owed allegiance to the Kolattiri rulers, whose ministers they had been at one time. The rulers followed the Marumakkathayam system of matrilineal inheritance, a system which is unique to a section of Hindus of Kerala. Under Marumakkathayam, the succession passes to the male offspring of its female members, in other words from a man to his sister's son and so forth. As the only Muslim rulers in Malabar, they saw the rise of Hyder Ali as the opportunity to increase their own power at the expense of Chirakkal, and invited him to invade Malabar. Ali Raja Kunhi Amsa II and his successor, Arakkal Bibi Junumabe II, were among Hyder Ali and Tippu Sultan's staunchest allies during the Mysorean occupation of malabar.
context_section_description: The Arakkal family followed a matriarchal system of descent: the eldest member of the family, whether male or female, became its head and ruler. While male rulers were called Ali Rajah, female rulers were known as Arakkal Beevis.
  Sultana Aysha Aliraja was the ruler until her death on the morning of 27 September 2006.
  Octogenarian Adiraja Mariyumma, alias Cheriya Bikkunhu Beevi, becomes the new head of the Arakkal family on 4 May 2019.
caption: Ruler Sultana Aysha Arakkal Beevi.
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