Volume : VIII, Issue : I, January - 2019

A BRIEF HISTORY OF POLITICAL DIMENSION IN TRAVANCORE UNDER KINGDOM 1729-1956

Dr. T. K. Stantley David

Abstract :

Venad was a former feudal state at the tip of the Indian subcontinent, traditionally ruled by the rajas, known as Venattadis. Their capital during the first Sangam age was in Aykudi and later towards the end of the 8th century AD, was at Kollam. A number of kings such as Kodai Kerala Varma, Udaya Marthanda Varma (1175–1195), Vira Rama Kerala Varma, Ravi Kerala Varma, Ravivarma Kulasekhara (1299–1314) and Vira Marthanda Varma ruled over the kingdom. After the 14th century, the Venad rulers gradually intermarried with the Namboothiris, and sometimes with the Nairs, adopting the custom of matrilineal descendency

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A BRIEF HISTORY OF POLITICAL DIMENSION IN TRAVANCORE UNDER KINGDOM 1729-1956, Dr. T.K. STANTLEY DAVID PARIPEX - INDIAN JOURNAL OF RESEARCH : Volume-8 | Issue-1 | January-2019

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