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OF TRAVANCORE
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CHINCHU.L
• Reign : 1798-1810.
• Youngest Travancore ruler at
16.
• His Diwan –Veuthampi
Dalawa.
• Kundara Proclamation of
Veluthathampi occurred on
11th January 1809.
AYILYAM THIRUNAL
RANI GOWRI
LAKSHMI BAYI
• Reign : 1810-1815.
• First women ruler of Travancore.
• Least served Travancore ruler.
• Abolished slavery in Travancore
in 1812.
• Audit,Account system &
Secretariat in the state .
• Introduced Allopathy treatment.
UTHRATTATHI
RANI GOWRI
PARVATI BAYI
• Reign : 1815-1829
• First regent of Travancore.
• Oozhiyam Vela terminated
.
• London Mission Society
started at Nagarcoil.
• CMS press at Kottayam
established in 1821.
SWATHI THIRUNAL
RAMA VARMA
• Reign : 1829 -1846.
• Golden age of modern Travancore.
• Known as
‘Dashinabhoja,’Garbasreeman’, ’The
Monarch Musician ‘.
• First Kerala king appear in stamps .
• He was expert in music & Veena.
• Irayimman Thampi was his court
poets.
• Department of Engineering, irrigation,
public work in Travancore started.
• Travancore Temple entry proclamation
on 12th November 1936.
UTHRAM
THIRUVANAL
MARTHANDA VARMA
• Reign : 1846-1860.
• Golden age of ‘Kathakali ‘.
• Girls school opened in
Travancore,1859.
• First modern Coir factory opened
at Alappuzha by James Dara in
1858.
• Channar lahala in 1859.
AYILYAM THIRUNAL
RAMA VARMA
• Reign :1880-1880.
• First king receive ‘Maharaja’ title from
British Government.
• Made Pandara patta proclamation in
1865 known as ‘the Magna Carta of
Travancore Peasants’.
• Constructed Kerala Secretariat building,
Alappuzha Light house, Punalur
suspension bridge during his period.
• First orderly census at Thiruvithamkur
done during his period.
• A R Raja Raja Varma,Raja Ravi Varma,
Kerala Varma Valiyakoyi Thampuran
were his court members.
VISAKAM THIRUNAL
RAMA VARMA
• Reign :1880-1885.
• ‘Scholar of Travancore’.
• Ramayyankar was his famous
Diwan.
• In 1886 a lease indenture of
999 years of Mullaperyar
damage was made between
Visakam Thirunal & British
Secretary of India for Periyar
irrigation works.
SREEMOOLAM THIRUNAL
RAMA VARMA
• Reign : 1885-1924.
• His era called ‘Memorial era ‘.
• Established Archeological department,
Life Insurance System, Finger print
bureau at Travancore.
• Malayalee memorial (1891),Ezhava
memorial (1896) submitted to him.
• In 1910 Swadeshabhimani Ramakrishna
pillai expelled from Travancore.
• Mullaperiyar damage commissioned in
1895 & Inaugurated by Lord Wenlock
• Mullaperiyar lease agreement between
Diwan Rama Iyengar & John Child
Hannington in 1886.
POORADAM THIRUNAL SETHU
LEKSHMI BAYI
• Reign : 1924-1931
• She abolished polygamy, Animal
sacrifice, Devadasi system.
• Introduced Makkathayam,midday
meal system.
• Constructed Neendakara Bridge.
• Vaikam Satyagraha -30th March
1924.
• Gandhiji visited her in 1925.
CHITHIRA THIRUNAL
BALA RAMA VARMA
• Reign : 1931-1949
• Last ruler of Travancore Princely state.
• Introduced bicameral legislature, Sreemoolam
Assembly & Sri Chithira State Council.
• Nivartha Agitation in 1932
• Thiruvithamkur temple entry proclamation
issued by him in 1936 November 12.
• First Chancellor of University of Kerala
• Established Travancore PSC, Travandrum
Engineering College, Sri Chithira Art
Gallery,Travancore public transport, Travancore
rubber works,Pallivasal hydroelectric project ,
University of Travancore (became University of
Kerala in 1957)
• His famous Diwan –C P Ramaswami Iyyer.
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