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Travancore

Index Travancore

The Kingdom of Travancore was an Indian kingdom from 1729 until 1949. [1]

154 relations: A. Seshayya Sastri, A. Sreedhara Menon, Agastheeswaram, Aiyappan Pillai, Avittom Thirunal Balarama Varma, Ay kingdom, Ayilyam Thirunal, Ayya Vaikundar, Ayyavazhi, Ayyavazhi rituals, Battle of Colachel, Battle of the Nedumkotta, Brahma, Brahmin, British Empire, British Raj, C. P. Ramaswami Iyer, Central Division (Travancore), Changanassery, Channar revolt, Chennai, Chera dynasty, Cherthala, Chithira Thirunal Balarama Varma, Cochin–Travancore Alliance (1761), Coimbatore, Communism, Dewan, Dharma Raja, Dutch East India Company, Dutch Empire, East India Company, Eraniel, Ettumanoor, Eustachius De Lannoy, Frontline (magazine), George Harris, 3rd Baron Harris, Government of India, Governor-General of India, Gowri Lakshmi Bayi, Gowri Parvati Bayi, Higginbotham's, Hindu, Hinduism, History of Kozhikode, Hyder Ali, Imperialism, India, Indian subcontinent, James Broun-Ramsay, 1st Marquess of Dalhousie, ..., Jayanthan Sankaran Nampoothiri, John Munro, 9th of Teaninich, K. Krishnaswamy Rao, Kalkulam, Kanyakumari, Kanyakumari district, Kerala, Kingdom of Cochin, Kochi, Kollam, Kollam district, Kottayam, Krishna Gopalayyan, Krishna Rao (administrator), Kshetram, List of maharajas of Travancore, M. E. Watts, M. Krishnan Nair (politician), Madras Presidency, Mahatma Gandhi, Malayalam, Malayalam calendar, Marthanda Varma, Marthandavarma (novel), Meenachil, Moolam Thirunal, Muhammad Habibullah, Muvattupuzha, Mysore, Mysorean invasion of Kerala, Nagar Kovil, Nagercoil, Nair Brigade, Nanjinad, Nanoo Pillai, Nedumkotta, North Paravur, Northern Division (Travancore), Order of the Indian Empire, Order of the Star of India, Oxford University Press, P. G. N. Unnithan, P. Rajagopalachari, Padmanabhapuram, Padmanabhapuram Palace, Padmanabhaswamy Temple, Paliath Achan, Pandyan dynasty, Princely state, Principality, Punnapra-Vayalar uprising, Purakkad, R. Venkata Rao, Raja, Raja Kesavadas, Ramayyan Dalawa, S. Gopalachari, S. Shungrasoobyer, Sarvadhikari, Sethu Lakshmi Bayi, Shankha, Southern Division (Travancore), State Institute of Encyclopaedic Publications, Swathi Thirunal Rama Varma, T. Madhava Rao, T. Raghavaiah, T. Rama Rao (administrator), Tamil language, Tamil Nadu, Tehsils of India, Temple Entry Proclamation, Thachudaya Kaimal, Thanjavur Subha Rao, The Hindu, The Years of Rice and Salt, Thiruvananthapuram, Thiruvananthapuram district, Thiruvithamcode, Thodupuzha, Thomas Austin (civil servant), Thovalai, Thrissur, Tipu Sultan, Travancore rebellion, Travancore royal family, Travancore Rupee, Travancore-Cochin, Travancore–Dutch War, Turbinella pyrum, Uthradom Thirunal Marthanda Varma, V. P. Madhava Rao, V. P. Menon, V. Ramiengar, V. S. Subramanya Iyer, Vaikom, Vaikom Satyagraha, Vanji bhoomi, Varanasi, Velu Thampi Dalawa, Venad, Visakham Thirunal, Vishnu, William Cullen (Resident), Zamorin of Calicut. Expand index (104 more) »

A. Seshayya Sastri

Sir Amaravati Seshayya Sastri KCSI (22 March 1828 – 29 October 1903), or Sashiah Sastri, was an Indian administrator who served as the Diwan of Travancore from May 1872 to 4 May 1877 and as the Diwan of Pudukkottai from 1878 to 1894.

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A. Sreedhara Menon

Alappat Sreedhara Menon (18 December 1925 – 23 July 2010) was a historian from Kerala, India.

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Agastheeswaram

Agastheeswaram is a panchayat town in Kanniyakumari district in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.

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Aiyappan Pillai

M. R. Ry. Kumar Aiyappan Pillai (born 4 May 1914) is an Indian lawyer, politician, former member of legislative council and a writer.

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Avittom Thirunal Balarama Varma

Avittom Thirunal Bala Rama Varma (c. 17827 Nov 1810) was a ruler of the Indian princely state of Travancore from 1798 to 1810, succeeding his uncle Maharajah Dharma Raja on 12February 1798.

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Ay kingdom

The Ay dynasty (later known as Venad and subsequently Travancore) ruled parts of southern India from the early Sangam age, which spanned from c. 3rd century BCE to c. 1200 CE.

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Ayilyam Thirunal

Ayilyam Thirunal Rama Varma (1832–1880) was the ruler of the princely state of Travancore in India from 1860 to 1880.

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Ayya Vaikundar

Lord Ayya Vaikundar (c.1809–c.1851; அய்யா வைகுண்டர்), also known as tenth avatar or incarnation of Lord Vishnu, also called as Sriman Narayana Vaikundasamy or Narayana Pandaram, was a 19th-century social reformer and iconoclast who worked for the upliftment of downtrodden people in the Kingdom of Travancore.

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Ayyavazhi

Ayyavazhi (அய்யாவழி, അയ്യാവഴി Ayyāvaḻi, "Path of the Master") is an universalizing henotheistic belief that originated in South India.

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Ayyavazhi rituals

Ayyavazhi rituals are the religious practices prevalent among the followers of Ayyavazhi.

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Battle of Colachel

The Battle of Colachel (or Battle of Kulachal) was fought on between the Indian kingdom of Travancore and the Dutch East India Company, during the Travancore-Dutch War.

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Battle of the Nedumkotta

The Battle of the Nedumkotta took place on 28 December 1789, and was a reason for the opening of hostilities in the Third Anglo-Mysore War.

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Brahma

Brahma (Sanskrit: ब्रह्मा, IAST: Brahmā) is a creator god in Hinduism.

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Brahmin

Brahmin (Sanskrit: ब्राह्मण) is a varna (class) in Hinduism specialising as priests, teachers (acharya) and protectors of sacred learning across generations.

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British Empire

The British Empire comprised the dominions, colonies, protectorates, mandates and other territories ruled or administered by the United Kingdom and its predecessor states.

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British Raj

The British Raj (from rāj, literally, "rule" in Hindustani) was the rule by the British Crown in the Indian subcontinent between 1858 and 1947.

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C. P. Ramaswami Iyer

Sachivottama Sir Chetpat Pattabhiraman Ramaswami Iyer, KCSI, KCIE (12 November 1879 – 26 September 1966), also called "C.

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Central Division (Travancore)

Central Division, sometimes referred to as the Quilon Division was one of three (or four) administrative subdivisions of the princely state of Travancore in what is now Kerala.

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Changanassery

Changanasserry is a municipal town in Kottayam district in the state of Kerala, India.

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Channar revolt

The Channar Lahala or Channar revolt, also called Maru Marakkal Samaram, refers to the fight from 1813 to 1859 of Nadar climber women in Travancore kingdom for the right to wear upper-body clothes to cover their breasts.

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Chennai

Chennai (formerly known as Madras or) is the capital of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.

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Chera dynasty

The Cheras were the ruling dynasty of the present-day state of Kerala and to a lesser extent, parts of Tamil Nadu in South India.

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Cherthala

Cherthala (formerly Shertalai, Shertallai or Shertallay) is a town located in the district of Alappuzha, in the state of Kerala, India.

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Chithira Thirunal Balarama Varma

Sree Padmanbhadasa Sree Chithira Thirunal Balarama Varma (7 November 1912 – 20 July 1991), popularly known as Sree Chithira Thirunal, was the last ruling Maharaja of the Princely State of Travancore, in southern India until 1949 and later the Titular Maharajah of Travancore until 1991.

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Cochin–Travancore Alliance (1761)

The Cochin–Travancore Peace Treaty came to being in 1761 to expel the forces of the Zamorin of Calicut from the regions of the Kingdom of Cochin they had occupied in 1755-56.

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Coimbatore

Coimbatore (Tamil: கோயம்புத்தூர்), also known as Kovai, is a major city in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.

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Communism

In political and social sciences, communism (from Latin communis, "common, universal") is the philosophical, social, political, and economic ideology and movement whose ultimate goal is the establishment of the communist society, which is a socioeconomic order structured upon the common ownership of the means of production and the absence of social classes, money and the state.

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Dewan

The originally Persian title dewan (also known as diwan, also spelled or devan/ divan) has, at various points in Islamic history, designated a powerful government official, minister or ruler.

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Dharma Raja

Dharma Raja Karthika Thirunal Rama Varma (ധർമ്മരാജാ കാർത്തിക തിരുനാൾ രാമവർമ്മ, 1724–17 Feb 1798) was the Maharajah of Travancore from 1758 until his death in 1798.

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Dutch East India Company

The United East India Company, sometimes known as the United East Indies Company (Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie; or Verenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie in modern spelling; abbreviated to VOC), better known to the English-speaking world as the Dutch East India Company or sometimes as the Dutch East Indies Company, was a multinational corporation that was founded in 1602 from a government-backed consolidation of several rival Dutch trading companies.

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Dutch Empire

The Dutch Empire (Het Nederlandse Koloniale Rijk) comprised the overseas colonies, enclaves, and outposts controlled and administered by Dutch chartered companies, mainly the Dutch West India and the Dutch East India Company, and subsequently by the Dutch Republic (1581–1795), and the modern Kingdom of the Netherlands since 1815.

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East India Company

The East India Company (EIC), also known as the Honourable East India Company (HEIC) or the British East India Company and informally as John Company, was an English and later British joint-stock company, formed to trade with the East Indies (in present-day terms, Maritime Southeast Asia), but ended up trading mainly with Qing China and seizing control of large parts of the Indian subcontinent.

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Eraniel

Eraniel is a panchayat town in Kanyakumari district in the state of Tamil Nadu, India.

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Ettumanoor

Ettumanoor, sometimes spelled Ettumanur is a major town and Municipality in the Kottayam District of Kerala, India, located 10.9 kilometers north-east of Kottayam city, 55 km from Cochin and 76.6 km from Cochin International Airport.

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Eustachius De Lannoy

Eustache Benoît (Eustachius Benedictus) de Lannoy (also spelled "Lennoy" and sometimes called 'Captain De Lannoy') (1715 – 1 June 1777, Udayagiri Fort) was a Belgian (Southern Netherlands) naval commander of the Dutch East India Company, who was sent by the company to help establish a trading post at Colachel, Southern India, but was defeated at the Battle of Colachel by the Travancore army under Maharaja Marthanda Varma in 1741, and subsequently became a valiant and successful commander of the same foreign army that had defeated him.

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Frontline (magazine)

Frontline is a fortnightly English language magazine published by The Hindu Group of publications from Chennai, India.

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George Harris, 3rd Baron Harris

George Francis Robert Harris, 3rd Baron Harris (14 August 1810 – 23 November 1872), was a British peer, Liberal politician and colonial administrator.

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Government of India

The Government of India (IAST), often abbreviated as GoI, is the union government created by the constitution of India as the legislative, executive and judicial authority of the union of 29 states and seven union territories of a constitutionally democratic republic.

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Governor-General of India

The Governor-General of India (or, from 1858 to 1947, officially the Viceroy and Governor-General of India, commonly shortened to Viceroy of India) was originally the head of the British administration in India and, later, after Indian independence in 1947, the representative of the Indian head of state.

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Gowri Lakshmi Bayi

Maharani Ayilyom Thirunal Gouri Lakshmi Bayi (1791–1815) was the Maharani of the Indian state of Travancore from 1810 till 1813 and Regent from 1813 till her death in 1815 for her son Swathi Thirunal Rama Varma.

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Gowri Parvati Bayi

Uthrittathi Thirunal Gowri Parvathi Bayi (1802–1853) was the Regent of the Indian state of Travancore who succeeded her sister Maharani Gowri Lakshmi Bayi from 1815 till her regency was relinquished in favour of her nephew, Maharajah Swathi Thirunal, in 1829.

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Higginbotham's

Higginbotham's is an Indian bookstore chain and publisher based in the city of Chennai.

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Hindu

Hindu refers to any person who regards themselves as culturally, ethnically, or religiously adhering to aspects of Hinduism.

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Hinduism

Hinduism is an Indian religion and dharma, or a way of life, widely practised in the Indian subcontinent.

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History of Kozhikode

Kozhikode (Malayalam:കോഴിക്കോട്), also known as Calicut, is a city in the southern Indian state of Kerala.

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Hyder Ali

Hyder Ali Khan, Haidarālī (c. 1720 – 7 December 1782) was the Sultan and de facto ruler of the Kingdom of Mysore in southern India.

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Imperialism

Imperialism is a policy that involves a nation extending its power by the acquisition of lands by purchase, diplomacy or military force.

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India

India (IAST), also called the Republic of India (IAST), is a country in South Asia.

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Indian subcontinent

The Indian subcontinent is a southern region and peninsula of Asia, mostly situated on the Indian Plate and projecting southwards into the Indian Ocean from the Himalayas.

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James Broun-Ramsay, 1st Marquess of Dalhousie

James Andrew Broun-Ramsay, 1st Marquess of Dalhousie (22 April 1812 – 19 December 1860), styled Lord Ramsay until 1838 and known as The Earl of Dalhousie between 1838 and 1849, was a Scottish statesman, and a colonial administrator in British India.

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Jayanthan Sankaran Nampoothiri

Odieiry Jayanthan Sankaran Nampoothiri was an 18th-century Dalawa of the Travancore, a former Indian kingdom.

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John Munro, 9th of Teaninich

General John Munro (June 1778 – 25 January 1858) of the H.E.I.C.S, 9th of Teaninich was a Scottish/British soldier and statesman who had great success in India.

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K. Krishnaswamy Rao

Diwan Bahadur Kanchi Krishnaswamy Rao, CIE (1845–1923) was an Indian civil servant, judge and administrator who served as the Diwan of Travancore from 1898 to 1904.

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Kalkulam

Kalkulam is a small village located in Kalkulam taluk, Kanyakumari district, Tamil Nadu, India.

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Kanyakumari

Kanyakumari is a City in Kanyakumari district in the state of Tamil Nadu, India.

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Kanyakumari district

Kanyakumari district is the southernmost district in Tamil Nadu state and mainland India.

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Kerala

Kerala is a state in South India on the Malabar Coast.

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Kingdom of Cochin

Kingdom of Cochin (also known as Perumpadappu Swaroopam, Mada-rajyam, or Kuru Swaroopam; Kocci or Perumpaṭappu) was a late medieval Hindu kingdom and later princely state on the Malabar Coast, South India.

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Kochi

Kochi, also known as Cochin, is a major port city on the south-west coast of India bordering the Laccadive Sea.

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Kollam

Kollam or Quilon (Coulão), formerly Desinganadu, is an old seaport and city on the Laccadive Sea coast of the Indian state of Kerala.

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Kollam district

Kollam district (formerly Quilon) is one of 14 districts of the state of Kerala, India.

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Kottayam

Kottayam is a municipal town in the Indian state of Kerala.

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Krishna Gopalayyan

Krishna Gopalayyan was an Indian administrator who served as the Diwan of Travancore from 1768 to 1776.

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Krishna Rao (administrator)

Krishna Rao (died 1857) was an Indian administrator who served as the acting Diwan of Travancore from 1842 to 1843 and the full-fledged Diwan from 1846 to 1857.

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Kshetram

Kshetram (Kshetra) literally means a place.

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List of maharajas of Travancore

Maharaja of Travancore was the principal title of the ruler of the Kingdom of Travancore in India.

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M. E. Watts

Maurice Emygdius Watts (11 June 1878 – 22 February 1933) was an Indian lawyer, civil servant and administrator who served as the Diwan of Travancore from 1925 to 1929.

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M. Krishnan Nair (politician)

Diwan Bahadur Sir Mannath Krishnan Nair KCIE (1870–1938) was an Indian politician from the Indian National Congress and later, Justice Party who served as a member of the Madras Legislative Council and later, executive council of the Governor of Madras.

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Madras Presidency

The Madras Presidency, or the Presidency of Fort St.

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Mahatma Gandhi

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948) was an Indian activist who was the leader of the Indian independence movement against British rule.

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Malayalam

Malayalam is a Dravidian language spoken across the Indian state of Kerala by the Malayali people and it is one of 22 scheduled languages of India.

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Malayalam calendar

Malayalam calendar or Kollam Era, also known as Kollavarsham, is a solar and sidereal Hindu calendar used in Kerala, India.

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Marthanda Varma

Marthanda Varma (born Anizham Thirunal Marthanda Varma; 1705 – 7 July 1758) was ruler of the southern Indian state of Travancore from 1729 until his death in 1758.

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Marthandavarma (novel)

Marthandavarma is a historical romance novel by C. V. Raman Pillai published in 1891.

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Meenachil

Meenachil is the north-eastern region of Kottayam district in Kerala, south India.

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Moolam Thirunal

Mulam Thirunal Rama Varma was the ruling Maharajah of the Indian state of Travancore between 1885 and 1924, succeeding his uncle Maharajah Visakham Thirunal (1880–1885).

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Muhammad Habibullah

Khan Bahadur Sir Muhammad Habibullah KCSI KCIE (22 September 1869 – 16 May 1948) was an Indian politician and administrator who served as the Dewan of Travancore from 1934 to 1936.

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Muvattupuzha

Muvattupuzha is a prominent old town in the midlands directly to the east of Kochi.

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Mysore

Mysore, officially Mysuru, is the third most populous city in the state of Karnataka, India.

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Mysorean invasion of Kerala

The Mysorean invasion of Kerala (1766 –1792) was the military invasion of Malabar (northern Kerala), including the territories of the Zamorin of Calicut, by the Muslim de facto ruler of the Kingdom of Mysore Hyder Ali.

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Nagar Kovil

Nagar Kovil or Nagerkovil or Nakarkovil or Nagarcoil (நாகர்கோயில்) is a small town in Jaffna District, Sri Lanka.

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Nagercoil

Nagercoil ("Temple of the Nāgas" Nagaraja Temple) is a town in the southernmost Indian state of Tamil Nadu and a municipality and administrative headquarters of Kanyakumari.

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Nair Brigade

The Nair Brigade was the army of the erstwhile kingdom of Travancore in India.

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Nanjinad

Nanjinad (pronounced Nancinatu) is a historical region corresponding to present-day Thovala and Agastheeshwaram taluks of Kanyakumari district.

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Nanoo Pillai

M. R. Ry. Dewan Nanoo Pillai (1827–1886) was a Travancorean statesman who served as the Diwan of Travancore from 1877 to 1880.

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Nedumkotta

Nedumkotta or Travancore lines was a wall built as a protection against consistent invasion and threats from northern kingdoms mainly Tipu Sultan of Mysore.

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North Paravur

North Paravur, also Paravur Taluk formerly known as Parur is a municipality formed in 1912 Ernakulam district in the Indian state of Kerala.

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Northern Division (Travancore)

The Northern Division or Kottayam Division was one of the three (or four) administrative subdivisions of the princely state of Travancore in British India.

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Order of the Indian Empire

The Most Eminent Order of the Indian Empire is an order of chivalry founded by Queen Victoria in 1878.

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Order of the Star of India

The Most Exalted Order of the Star of India is an order of chivalry founded by Queen Victoria in 1861.

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Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press (OUP) is the largest university press in the world, and the second oldest after Cambridge University Press.

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P. G. N. Unnithan

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P. Rajagopalachari

Diwan Bahadur Sir Perungavur Rajagopalachari, KCSI, CIE (18 March 1862 – 1 December 1927), also spelt in contemporary records as Sir P. Rajagopala Achariyar, was an Indian administrator.

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Padmanabhapuram

Padmanabhapuram is a town and a municipality near Thuckalay in Kanyakumari district in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.

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Padmanabhapuram Palace

Padmanabhapuram Palace (Tamil: பத்மநாபபுரம் அரண்மனை) (Malayalam: പത്മനാഭപുരം കൊട്ടാരം) is a Travancore era palace located in Padmanabhapuram, Kalkulam taluk of Kanyakumari District, Tamil Nadu.

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Padmanabhaswamy Temple

Padmanabhaswamy Temple is located in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India.

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Paliath Achan

Paliath Achan or Paliyath Achan is the name given to the oldest male member of the Paliam family, a Nair Menon chieftain family from the Indian state of Kerala that figured prominently in the history of the region.

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Pandyan dynasty

The Pandyan dynasty was an ancient Tamil dynasty, one of the three Tamil dynasties, the other two being the Chola and the Chera.

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Princely state

A princely state, also called native state (legally, under the British) or Indian state (for those states on the subcontinent), was a vassal state under a local or regional ruler in a subsidiary alliance with the British Raj.

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Principality

A principality (or princedom) can either be a monarchical feudatory or a sovereign state, ruled or reigned over by a monarch with the title of prince or by a monarch with another title within the generic use of the term prince.

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Punnapra-Vayalar uprising

The Punnapra-Vayalar uprising (October, 1946) was a communist uprising in the Princely State of Travancore, British India against the Prime Minister, C. P. Ramaswami Iyer and the state.

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Purakkad

Purakkad is a village in Alappuzha district in the Indian state of Kerala.It the beach which is described in Thakazhi's novel "Chemeen".

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R. Venkata Rao

Rai Raya Rai Venkata Rao (also spelt Venkatta Row; died 1843), was an Indian administrator and statesman who served as Diwan of Travancore 18211829 and 183839.

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Raja

Raja (also spelled rajah, from Sanskrit राजन्), is a title for a monarch or princely ruler in South and Southeast Asia.

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Raja Kesavadas

Raja Kesavadas (1745-1799; Sanskrit) was the Dewan of Travancore during the reign of Dharma Raja Karthika Thirunal Rama Varma.He is well known for his planning skills and administrative acumen.He was the master mind in developing the Alappuzha town.

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Ramayyan Dalawa

Ramayyan (ராமய்யன், രാമയ്യൻ; ?January 1756)) was the Dewan of Travancore state, India, during 1737 and 1756 and was responsible for the consolidation and expansion of that kingdom after the defeat of the Dutch at the 1741 Battle of Colachel during the reign of Maharajah Marthanda Varma, the creator of modern Travancore.

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S. Gopalachari

Diwan Bahadur Sarukkai Gopalachari (born 16 August 1850), or Gopalacharyar, was an Indian lawyer and administrator who acted as the Diwan of Travancore from 16 August 1906 to 26 October 1907.

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S. Shungrasoobyer

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Sarvadhikari

Sarvādhikārī is a title with diverse uses in India, including.

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Sethu Lakshmi Bayi

Pooradam Thirunal Sethu Lakshmi Bayi CI (1895–1985) was the regent of the Kingdom of Travancore in southern India between 1924 and 1931.

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Shankha

A Shankha is a conch shell of ritual and religious importance in Hinduism and Buddhism.

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Southern Division (Travancore)

The Southern Division, or Padmanabhapuram Division till 1921 and Trivandrum Division from 1921 to 1949, was one of the administrative subdivisions of the princely state of Travancore.

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State Institute of Encyclopaedic Publications

The State Institute of Encyclopaedic Publications (SIEP) is a cultural institution founded in 1961 under the Department of Cultural Affairs, Government of Kerala, with the objective of disseminating knowledge to the people of Kerala in their pursuit of learning.

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Swathi Thirunal Rama Varma

(സ്വാതി തിരുനാള്‍ രാമവർമ്മ) (16 April 1813 – 26 December 1846) was the Maharaja of the Kingdom of Travancore, British India.

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T. Madhava Rao

Raja Sir Tanjore Madhava Rao, KCSI (c. 1828 – d. 4 April 1891), also known as Sir Madhava Rao Thanjavurkar or simply as Madhavarao Tanjavarkar, was an Indian civil servant, administrator and politician who served as the Diwan of Travancore from 1857 to 1872, Indore from 1873 to 1875 and Baroda from 1875 to 1882.

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T. Raghavaiah

Diwan Bahadur Thodla Raghavaiah CSI was an Indian administrator who served as the Diwan of Travancore from 1920 to 1925.

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T. Rama Rao (administrator)

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Tamil language

Tamil (தமிழ்) is a Dravidian language predominantly spoken by the Tamil people of India and Sri Lanka, and by the Tamil diaspora, Sri Lankan Moors, Burghers, Douglas, and Chindians.

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Tamil Nadu

Tamil Nadu (• tamiḻ nāḍu ? literally 'The Land of Tamils' or 'Tamil Country') is one of the 29 states of India.

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Tehsils of India

Tehsil also tahsil is an administrative divisions of India denoting a sub-district.

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Temple Entry Proclamation

The Temple Entry Proclamation was issued by Maharaja Chithira Thirunal Balarama Varma in 1936 and abolished the ban on the so called 'low caste people' or avarnas from entering Hindu temples in the Princely State of Travancore, now part of Kerala, India.

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Thachudaya Kaimal

The Thachudaya Kaimals were a lineage of ruling chiefs in Travancore, now in the Indian state of Kerala.

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Thanjavur Subha Rao

Thanjavur Subha Rao (also known as Subharao Tanjavarkar) was an Indian administrator and musician who served as the dewan of the state of Travancore in the 1830s.

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The Hindu

The Hindu is an Indian daily newspaper, headquartered at Chennai.

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The Years of Rice and Salt

The Years of Rice and Salt is an alternate history novel written by science fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson and published in 2002.

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Thiruvananthapuram

Thiruvananthapuram, also known as Trivandrum, is the capital and the largest city of the Indian state of Kerala.

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Thiruvananthapuram district

Thiruvananthapuram District is the southernmost district of the coastal state of Kerala.

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Thiruvithamcode

Thiruvithamcode (also spelled Thiruvithancode, Thiruvithankodu and Thiruvithangodu) is a small panchayat town located in the Kanyakumari district of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.Kanyakumari district in Tamil Nadu was carved out of Travancore-Cochin State in the 1956 State re-organization comprising its four southern taluks of Thovala, Agastheeswaram, Kalkulam and Vilavancode.Nanjilnadu, which is the present Agasteeswaram and Thovalai taluks of the Kanyakumari district, was under the rule of Pandyas till the early 10th century and then under Cheras.

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Thodupuzha

Thodupuzha is the largest town and municipality in Idukki district in the Kerala state of India, spread over an area of 35.43 km2.

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Thomas Austin (civil servant)

Sir Thomas Austin KCIE (20 July 1887 – 1976) was a British civil servant of the Indian civil service and administrator who served as the Diwan of Travancore from 1932 to 1934.

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Thovalai

Thovalai is a small village located in Thovalai taluk, Kanyakumari district, Tamil Nadu, India.

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Thrissur

Thrissur (originally Thiru Siva Peroor and previously known by its anglicised form as Trichur), is the fourth largest city, the third largest urban agglomeration in Kerala (Pop. 1,854,783) and the 20th largest in India.

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Tipu Sultan

Tipu Sultan (born Sultan Fateh Ali Sahab Tipu, 20 November 1750 – 4 May 1799), also known as the Tipu Sahib, was a ruler of the Kingdom of Mysore.

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Travancore rebellion

The Travancore rebellion against the British East India Company was led by the prime ministers of the Indian states of Travancore and Cochin in 1808–09.

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Travancore royal family

The Travancore Royal Family was the ruling house of the Indian princely state of Travancore.They lost their ruling rights in 1949 when Travancore merged with the Indian Union and their privileges were abolished by the Indian Union in 1971 by a constitutional amendment.The Travancore Royalty could also considered descendants of the ancient Cheras, Ay/Venad, Pandya and Chola dynasties, due to consistent intermarriages with these lines over the centuries.

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Travancore Rupee

The Travancore rupee was a type of currency issued by the State of Travancore, now mainly a part of Kerala in South India.

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Travancore-Cochin

Travancore-Cochin or Thiru-Kochi was a short-lived state of India (1949–1956).

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Travancore–Dutch War

The Travancore–Dutch War was a war between the Dutch East India Company (VOC) and the Indian kingdom of Travancore, culminating in the Battle of Colachel in 1741.

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Turbinella pyrum

Turbinella pyrum, common names the chank shell, sacred chank or chank, also known as the divine conch, sometimes referred to simply as a conch, is a species of very large sea snail with a gill and an operculum, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Turbinellidae.

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Uthradom Thirunal Marthanda Varma

Sree Padmanabhadasa Sree Uthradom Thirunal Marthanda Varma (22 March 1922 – 16 December 2013) was the titular Maharaja of Travancore.

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V. P. Madhava Rao

Vishwanath Patankar Madhava Rao CIE (विश्वनाथ पाटणकर माधव राव (10 February 1850 - 1934) was an Indian administrator and statesman who served as the Diwan of Mysore kingdom from 1906 to 1909 and Baroda from 1910 to 1913.

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V. P. Menon

Rao Bahadur Vappala Pangunni Menon, CSI, CIE (30 September 1893 – 31 December 1965) was an Indian civil servant who was the Constitutional Adviser and Political Reforms Commissioner to the last three Viceroys during British rule in India.

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V. Ramiengar

Vembaukum Ramiengar CSI (c. 1826 – 10 May 1887) was an Indian civil servant and administrator who served as the Diwan of Travancore from 1880 to 1887.

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V. S. Subramanya Iyer

Diwan Bahadur V. S. Subrahmanya Iyer (born 21 October 1877) was an Indian administrator who served as the Diwan of the princely state of Travancore from 1929 to 1932.

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Vaikom

Vaikom is a capital town of Vaikom Taluk, situated in the northwest of Kottayam district in the state of Kerala, India.

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Vaikom Satyagraha

Vaikom Satyagraha (1924–25) was a satyagraha (movement) in Travancore, India (now part of Kerala) against untouchability in Hindu society.

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Vanji bhoomi

Vanji Bhumi (alternatively Vanchi Bhumi, Vanchi Bhumi) was the national anthem of the Kingdom of Travancore.

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Varanasi

Varanasi, also known as Benares, Banaras (Banāras), or Kashi (Kāśī), is a city on the banks of the Ganges in the Uttar Pradesh state of North India, south-east of the state capital, Lucknow, and east of Allahabad.

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Velu Thampi Dalawa

Velayudhan Chempakaraman Thampi (1765–1809) was the Dalawa or Prime Minister of the Indian kingdom of Travancore between 1802 and 1809 during the reign of His Highness Maharajah Bala Rama Varma Kulasekhara Perumal.

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Venad

Venad (Malayalam: Vēnāṭu) or the Kingdom of Quilon was one of the three prominent late medieval Hindu feudal kingdoms on the Malabar Coast, South India, along with the Kingdom of Calicut and Kolathunadu.

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Visakham Thirunal

Visakham Thirunal Rama Varma GCSI FRGS FRAS (19 May 1837 – 4 August 1885) was the Maharaja of the erstwhile Indian kingdom of Travancore from 1880–1885 AD.

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Vishnu

Vishnu (Sanskrit: विष्णु, IAST) is one of the principal deities of Hinduism, and the Supreme Being in its Vaishnavism tradition.

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William Cullen (Resident)

Major General William Cullen (17 May 1785 – 1 October 1862) was a British Army Officer with the Madras Artillery Regiment, and from 1840 to 1860, Resident in the Kingdom of Travancore and Cochin.

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Zamorin of Calicut

Zamorin of Calicut (Samoothiri; Portuguese: Samorim, Dutch: Samorijn, Chinese: ShamitihsiMa Huan's Ying-yai Sheng-lan: 'The Overall Survey of the Ocean's Shores'. Translated and Edited by J. V. G. Mills. Cambridge University Press for the Hakluyt Society (1970).) is the title of the Hindu monarch of the Kingdom of Calicut (Kozhikode) on Malabar Coast, India.

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References

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