Travancore

[trav-uhn-kawr, -kohr]

noun

1. 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

/ ˌtrævənˈkɔː /

noun

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

Example Sentences

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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The then-president of the state congress committee said women in Travancore were already "empresses of the home" and that politics was not their space.

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