South Indian kingdom on the Malabar coast, consolidated by Marthanda Varma from c.1729, that dominated the far south of the subcontinent through the 18th-19th centuries and became a progressive, wealthy princely state under British paramountcy.
Merged into the Indian Union in 1949, joining with Cochin to form Travancore-Cochin state (the nucleus of modern Kerala).
The atlas holds 2 border frames for Kingdom of Travancore — the shape you scrub through changes in 1729 · 1799.
Acclaimed modern narrative history of the Travancore royal house.
Classic 19th-century polity-specific history written from within the Travancore court.