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Travancore State Manual - Vol.1 (Xerox)

V. Nagam Aiya

P.J. Cherian

81-85499-32-2

Kerala Gazetteers Department

Manuals

1906

500 /-

Express Interest

V. Nagam Aiya’s Travancore State Manual Vol.1 encompasses Travancore culture and history into twenty-one chapters in three volumes. The first volume deals with Physical Description, Climate, Flora, Fauna, Archaeology and History. Under these headings Physical features, geology, rainfall and meteorology are exhaustively studied. The section entitled history gives a fairly detailed overview into the ancient, early, and modern history of Travancore with in-depth analyses of rulers beginning from Martanda Varma to the then Maharajah, Rama Varma.

Year of Reprint - 1999