Kallingal Madathil Rarichan Moopan

Rarichan Mooppan was the scion of a Thiyya landlord family. He was born in Kozhikode on 20 February 1856. He completed his matriculation. He married the sister of Mithavaadi Krishnan, and worked as a mixed-race social reformer and community benefactor. He worked to build a temple for the backward classes and gave land to the project.[9] The elders of that time were the wealthiest of the Kallingal Madam after the Kozhikode Zamorin.[6][10][11][3] Pullambil Moopan's family of Thalassery and the families Kallingal Moopan engaged in sea trade.[12][13] Rarichan Moopan worked for the construction of Sri Kandeshwara Temple in Kozhikode under the leadership of Rarichan Moopan and Moorkoth Kumaran. The temple was donated by the Kallingal family.[3]

They had extensive knowledge of shipbuilding and navigation. In the Malabar region, several families, each headed by a Mooppan (patriarch), were highly respected by the mercantile community in Kerala and abroad, for their entrepreneurship and trade. Prominent members of the circle include Vamala Mooppan, Kelu Mooppan, Pullampil Mooppan, Vayayil Mooppan and Kallingkal Mooppan.[14] One family was Rarichan Mooppan who owned and possessed property in Calicut. He continued in the sea trade until the first quarter of the 20th century.[15]

Kallingkal Madam was one of the leading shipowners and traders whose ships used a separate dock in Arabia. The ships exported goods from Kerala up to Konkan, such as timber, spices, copra, elephant tusks, cured fish, rice, millet, peacock-feather and animal skins, woven cloth and handicrafts. They imported dates to and myrrh.[14][16][17][18][19]

The Kallingkal Madam also contributed C. Krishnan, editor of the revolutionary journal Mitavadi (Moderate).[14]