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[edit] Pirmed, 1908

Hill station on the Pirmed range of hills, forming the southern portion of the Cardamom Hills, Travancore State, Madras, situated in 9degree 33' N. and 76degree 59' E. Population (1901), 9,932. Its general elevation is from 3,000 to 3,500 feet. Around it are thirty tea estates owned by Europeans, containing about 8,000 acres under crop. Roads connect the station with Changanacheri, Kottayam, Trivandrum, and other important places on the west, and with Madura District on the east. It is the head-quarters of the first-class magis- trate and Assistant to the Superintendent and District Magistrate of the Cardamom Hills, and contains postal and telegraph offices. Pirmed is supposed to be an abridgement of Plr-medu ('pir's hill'), and to have been so called because a Musalman saint named pir Muhammad once lived here in seclusion.

Note: National, provincial and district boundaries have changed considerably since 1908. Typically, old states, ‘divisions’ and districts have been broken into smaller units, and many tahsils upgraded to districts. Some units have since been renamed. Therefore, this article is being posted mainly for its historical value.