Chungamとは 意味・読み方・使い方

'Chungam' is a small junction in Kottayam town in Kerala state, Southern India. Chungam is the Malayalam equivalent of tax. So all the locations where tax was collected came to be known as Chungam; indeed Kerala has a number of places with the same name. This is the border of Kottayam town. It borders the Meenachil river. There may be more places, one is near Kozhikode East Hill, one near Feroke, Kozhikode district. The oldest college and school in Kerala and India are here. The CMS College and the CMS College Higher Secondary School; both around 200 years of age were built by the Rev. Benjamin Baily of the Church Missionary Society, London. They were built with the generous help and assistance of Col. Munroe, the then Resident of the East India Company, and HH Rani Gauri Laxmi Bhai, the reagent queen of the erstwhile Travencore state.