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List of taluks of Kerala

List of administrative divisions of Kerala, India

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 7, 2026
Entity authorityQ67115065 ↗
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In Kerala, the administrative divisions below the district are called taluks. There are 78 taluks with 1670 villages (including group villages).

For revenue administration, a district subdivided into revenue divisions, each comprising multiple taluks within its jurisdiction. A taluk contain several revenue villages under its jurisdiction. Each taluk has a taluk office headed by a Tehsildar, who also serves as the executive magistrate of that taluk.

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1670—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where List, taluks and Kerala can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as list of administrative divisions of Kerala, India. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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This entry incorporates text from “List of taluks of Kerala” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.