Career
Appu Nedungadi, who was born at Kothakurissi,Ottappalam taluk in palakkad district.He is the author of the first Malayalam novel ‘Kundalatha" (1887). In 1899, he established Nedungadi Bank, the oldest private sector commercial bank in Kozhikode, Kerala. The bank was incorporated in 1913.
In 2003 it was taken over by Punjab National Bank.
Nedungnad Carithram - from prehistoric times to Anno Domini 1860 (Malayalam) South. Rajendu by (Madhavam: Perintalmanna, 2012).