Travancore

American

[trav-uhn-kawr, -kohr] / ˈtræv ənˌkɔr, -ˌkoʊr /

noun

a former state in SW India: merged 1949 with Cochin to form a new state Travancore and Cochin; reorganized 1956 to form the larger part of Kerala state.

Travancore British

/ ˌtrævənˈkɔː /

noun

a former princely state of S India which joined with Cochin in 1949 to form Travancore-Cochin : part of Kerala state since 1956

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As a teen in a coir factory, he joined the undivided Communist Party at 17 and began organising agricultural workers in Travancore in then British-ruled India.

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PK Rosy was born as Rajamma in the early 1900s in the erstwhile kingdom of Travancore, now Kerala.

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The procession is led by the head of the former royal family of Travancore, which built the airport in 1932.

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Born in 1918 in Travancore, a former princely state that's now part of the southern state of Kerala, Mani is best known for helping India make its own instruments to measure the weather, thereby reducing the newly independent country's reliance on other nations.

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"For more than 15 years she was probably the toughest woman in public politics in Travancore and was at the forefront of the momentous people's struggle in Travancore in the pre-independence era," Kandathil Sebastian, a social scientist based in Delhi, wrote last year.

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