Description
Travancore, the southernmost State in India, was well known in early times. Nevertheless, its early history, extent of its territory, and other particulars are mostly buried in obscurity, owing to the nonexistence of a correct and detailed history of the kingdom. The existence of the kingdom going back to prehistoric times, no historical facts is found recorded illustrating its antiquity. There is scarcely a kingdom on the face of the earth, whose dynasty continued to exist in an unbroken line of succession, from the time of its foundation to the present day. It is perhaps the only kingdom in India which preserves its original caste, religion, customs, manners, institutions, etc., and the compiler of the Travancore records is perfectly right in saying that Travancore is one of the ?very few remaining specimens of a pure Hindu Government, ? the institutions of which have never been affected by the ? Mahomedan conquest.? A comprehensive book on the History of the Southern part of the modern state of Kerala called Tranvancore. The author traces the origin and growth of this kingdom from mythological time up to the era of the author. The book contains numerous illustrations to make it more interesting in the context of the history.
