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Name: travancore

Type: Cluster

Start: 1730 AD

End: 1947 AD

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The cluster includes all the forms of the country.

The cluster includes the following incarnations of the same nation:

  • Kingdom of Travancore
  • Travancore (Princely State)
  • Establishment


  • January 1730: Formation of Travancore.
  • Chronology


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    1. Anglo-Indian Wars


    Were a series of wars fought by the British East India Company in the Indian Subcontinent that resulted in the British conquest and colonial rule of the region.

    1.1.Anglo-Mysore Wars

    Were a series of four wars fought during the last three decades of the 18th century between the Sultanate of Mysore on the one hand, and the British East India Company, Maratha Empire, Kingdom of Travancore, and the Kingdom of Hyderabad on the other. The fourth war resulted in the dismantlement of Mysore to the benefit of the East India Company, which took control of much of the Indian subcontinent.

    1.1.1.Second Anglo-Mysore War

    Was a conflict between the Kingdom of Mysore and the British East India Company from 1780 to 1784.

  • January 1780: By 1779, Mysore ruler Haider Ali had captured parts of modern Tamil Nadu and Kerala in the south, extending the Kingdom's area to about 80,000 mi² (205,000 km²).
  • January 1780: By 1779, Mysore ruler Haider Ali had captured parts of modern Tamil Nadu and Kerala in the south, extending the Kingdom's area to about 80,000 mi2 .

  • 2. Partition of India


    Was the partition of British India in two independent entities: India (with a Hindu majority) and Pakistan (with a Muslim majority). This included the several princely states that were dependent on the British Colony.

  • January 1948: Accession to India (exact date not known). The Indian Independence Act came into being on 15 August.

  • 3. Further events (Unrelated to Any War)


  • January 1732: In 1731, the port of Kollam - which was ruled by a branch of the Venadu family to which Marthanda Varma also belonged - was defeated and its last chief was made to sign a treaty allowing the annexation of his chiefdom by Travancore after his death.

  • January 1735: The ruler of Kayamkulam was killed (1734).

  • January 1740: Travancore's next campaign was against Elayadathu Swaroopam (Kottarakara). When the chief of Kottarakara who was kept in solitary confinement in Trivandrum died in 1739, Marthanda Varma refused to recognise the claim of the senior female member to succession. The princess fled to Thekkumkur where the chief gave granted her asylum.

  • April 1741: Travancore then launched a series of raids on the Dutch forts in the area and captured them all.

  • January 1754: In 1753, the tributary states of Kochi collectively known as Karappuram and Alangad were ceded to Travancore.

  • January 1754: The principality of Meenachil was annexed by the Kingdom of Travancore.

  • January 1754: Ambalapuzha, Kottayam and Changanassery were also annexed to Travancore by 1753.

  • January 1756: Establishment of the Danish outpost in Colachel.

  • January 1759: The maximum extent of the Kingdom of Travancore was reached at the end of Marthanda Varma's reign.

  • January 1796: Travancore became a princely state of the British Raj.

  • January 1815: In 1814, as per the Anglo-Dutch Treaty, the islands of Kochi, including Fort Kochi, were ceded to the United Kingdom. This agreement was made between the Dutch Governor-General Godert van der Capellen and British Governor-General Lord Minto. The Kingdom of Cochin (Princely State) lost control of the territory to the United Kingdom in this exchange for the island of Banca.

  • Disestablishment


  • January 1948: Accession to India (exact date not known). The Indian Independence Act came into being on 15 August.
  • Selected Sources


  • Indian independence Act. Retrieved on March, 24th 2024 on https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1947/30/pdfs/ukpga_19470030_en.pdf
  • Larsen, K. (1940): Guvernører, Residenter, Kommadanter og Chefer samt enkele andre fremtradende personer i de tidligere Danske Tropokolonier, Copenhagen (Denmark), pp. 323-324
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