| Teekoy | |
| Settlement Type: | Village |
| Government Type: | Gram panchayat |
| Governing Body: | Panchayat samiti |
| Leader Title: | Panchayat President |
| Leader Name: | K.C James Kavalamakkal |
| Pushpin Map: | India Kerala#India |
| Pushpin Label Position: | left |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Kerala, India |
| Coordinates: | 9.7°N 76.7833°W |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: |  India |
| Subdivision Type1: | State |
| Subdivision Name1: | Kerala |
| Subdivision Type2: | District |
| Subdivision Name2: | Kottayam |
| Founder: | Thomas Kottukapally |
| Unit Pref: | Metric |
| Area Total Km2: | 27.19 |
| Population Total: | 10272 |
| Population As Of: | 2001 |
| Population Density Km2: | auto |
| Demographics Type1: | Languages |
| Demographics1 Title1: | Official |
| Demographics1 Info1: | Malayalam, English |
| Timezone1: | IST |
| Utc Offset1: | +5:30 |
| Postal Code Type: | PIN |
| Postal Code: | 686580 |
| Area Code Type: | Telephone code |
| Area Code: | 04822 |
| Registration Plate: | KL-35 |
| Blank1 Name Sec1: | Nearest town(s) |
| Blank1 Info Sec1: | Vagamon, Erattupetta, Pala, Kottayam, Kanjirappally, and Thodupuzha |
| Blank2 Name Sec1: | Lok Sabha constituency |
| Blank2 Info Sec1: | Pathanamthitta |
| Blank3 Name Sec1: | Literacy |
| Blank3 Info Sec1: | 98.86% |
Teekoy is a southern Indian village in the eastern part of Kottayam district in Kerala state. On 1 January 1962, it was established as a third grade gram panchayat.[1]
Teekoy is located 18 km east of the town Pala, and is 44 km north-east of the district capital Kottayam. It is between the towns of Vagamon, Poonjar, Erattupetta, and Thalanadu. The village is situated about 165 km north of the state capital, Thiruvananthapuram.
Teekoy has features of both midland countryside and the Malanad hill area. Teekoy as a village is medium-sized but as a panchayat is quite long. It covers many areas such as Aniyilappu, Mavadi, Vellikulam, Thalanad and Adukkom, stretching about 20 kilometres and reaching up to Vagamon, at about three thousand feet above sea level, for a total area of .[1] The place is known for its agriculture and landscape. It is full of hills and valleys in the middle of which flows the Meenachil River.
Large-scale settlement in Teekoy began more than 100 years ago. It resembles a tropical rainforest, and trees like teak and jackfruit are found in the Western Ghats region, growing alongside coconut, rubber, arecanut, and other crops. The first large-scale rubber plantation in India was established in Teekoy. Most of the people are farmers and they cultivate rubber, elachi, ginger, cardamom, clove, nutmeg, turmeric, pepper, cashew and other spices. A considerable variety of medicinal plants are also grown in Teekoy which have been used in making traditional home remedies.
There are some third- and fourth-generation Tamil people, descendants of workers who came to work in the rubber plantations in Teekoy many decades ago. Before independence in 1947, Teekoy had some English people who had set up rubber plantations in the area. As a legacy of the colonial era, a cantilever bridge still connects the two banks of the Meenachil River two kilometres above Teekoy.
Teekoy is a rural but modern village with predominantly hilly topography. It has a dominant village culture, with celebrating the annual festivals, feasts in church etc. Indian National Congress and Kerala Congress (M) are the main parties. Adv. Justine Jacob (Kerala Congress (M)) was the youngest President of Teekoy at his age of twenty-seven.
People at Teekoy are educated and self-employed or employed either in government, private or abroad. Educational institutions include St. Mary's High School, now more than six decades old.
A sizable proportion of the population is Syrian Christian (Syro-Malabar Catholic), but there is also a large minority of Muslims and Hindus. There is a small colony of converted Dalit Christians as well.
The noted Roman Catholic theologian Kurien Kunnumpuram (1931–2018) was born in Teekoy.[2]
Places of worship include:
Teekoy's climate has a heavy rain season and mild summer. Summer rains are not infrequent. With hills in the backdrop, it never gets very hot, and the climate tends towards windy and cool.