In 1780, a Carmelite monk called Fra Bartolomeo obtained an audience with the maharaja of Travancore to deliver a message from Pope Clement XIV. The pope, having heard much about the power of the ...

This Frenchman Who Served The Dutch Left An Indelible Impression On South India In a corner of Udayagiri Fort at Puliyoorkurichi in Kanyakumari lies the tomb of Eustache Benedictus de Lannoy. The ...

Thiruvananthapuram, Jul 8: A witness to India's transformation from imperial rule to a democratic polity, 90-year-old ‘Maharaja of Travancore' Uthradom Tirunal MarthandaVarma have both pleasant and ...

The folk must be fit in Travancore. This tiny ‘burb, a mere flick from the CBD (three kilometres in one part), houses Anytime Fitness, Kettlefit Personal Training, Bikram Hot Yoga, and MV Health and ...

Scribes, scribbling away furiously on their notepads, stopped to gape at the man on the podium. With his almond-shaped eyes, aquiline nose, delicate lips, unruly mop of thick, curly hair, phenomenal ...

The Supreme Court on Monday upheld the rights of the Travancore royal family in the administration of the Sree Padmanabhaswamy Temple in Kerala, Live Law reported. The court also approved the ...

History shapes the future. While Kerala’s social and political past has been widely studied, its economic history remains largely unexplored. To bridge this gap, economist and former chairman of the ...

Members of the erstwhile royal family of Travancore stayed away from an event to mark the 87th anniversary of the Temple Entry Proclamation, following a massive outcry against the leaflets describing ...

The Supreme Court on Monday sided with the erstwhile Travancore Royal family for the administration and control of the Padmanabha Swamy temple in Kerala. Settling the long-running dispute, the top ...

For long, history writing in India had been north-centric. The Southern empires, for all their glorious past, used to be detailed either cursorily or, at best, as an appendage to the Mughal/Sultanate ...