Kolathiri

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Kolathiri or Kolathiri Rājā ({{IPA|kn|koːlɐt̪ːiɾi ɾaːdʒaː|lang}}) (King of KolathunāduA. Shreedhara Menon (2007), A brief History of Kerala, DC Books, Kottayam or King of Cannanore{{cite book

| author = S. Muhammad Hussain Nainar | year=1942

| title= Tuhfat-al-Mujahidin: An Historical Work in The Arabic Language | publisher=University of Madras

| url= https://archive.org/details/Tuhfat-al-MujahidinAnHistoricalWorkInTheArabicLanguage

}}{{cite book

| author = K. V. Krishna Iyer

| title = Zamorins of Calicut: From the earliest times to AD 1806

| publisher = Norman Printing Bureau, Kozhikode

| url = https://archive.org/details/in.gov.ignca.3379

| year = 1938}}{{cite book

| author = William Logan | year=1887

| title= Malabar Manual (Volume-I) | publisher=Madras Government Press

| url= https://archive.org/details/malabarmanual0000loga/mode/2up

}}{{cite book

| author = Charles Alexander Innes | year=1908

| title= Madras District Gazetteers Malabar (Volume-I) | publisher=Madras Government Press

| url= https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.358941/mode/2up

}} in foreign accounts) was the title by which the senior-most male along the matrilineal line of the Mushika or Kolathunādu Royal Family (Kolaswarũpam) based in the North Malabar region was styled.Duarte Barbosa, The Book of Duarte Barbosa: An Account of the Countries Bordering on the Indian Ocean and their Inhabitants, II, ed.M. L Dames (repr., London: Hakluyt Society, 1921)The Dutch in Malabar: Selection from the Records of the Madras Government, No. 13 (Madras: Printed by the Superintendent, Government Press, 1911), 143. It is a descendant of the Mushika dynasty.