THE WORLD ATLAS

Realm · approximate borders · 1753–1857

Kingdom of Travancore

After taking Ambalappuzha, Thekkumkur and Vadakkumkur (1749–54; Treaty of Mavelikkara with Cochin, 1753), Travancore reached roughly the extent it kept until 1949. It accepted a subsidiary alliance with the East India Company (1795, 1805).

The border with Cochin around Kochi was a patchwork of enclaves.

See Kingdom of Travancore on the map in 1753

On the map
1753–1857
Capital
Padmanabhapuram; Thiruvananthapuram from 1795

Rulers named in the sources

South Asian kingdoms, 1550–1857

From the fall of Vijayanagara's capital to the Revolt of 1857, beside the Mughal, Maratha, Durrani and British realms and a few successor states, many kingdoms ruled themselves. In the south: Travancore, Cochin, the Zamorin's Calicut, the Keladi Nayakas, the last Aravidu kings of Vijayanagara, the Nayaks of Gingee, and Mysore through the Wodeyar, Hyder Ali and Tipu Sultan periods. In the Deccan and centre: the Gond kingdoms of Garha-Mandla, Deogarh and Chanda, Bastar, Ratanpur, Hyderabad after 1799, Nagpur, Satara, and the Holkar, Scindia and Gaekwad states after 1818. In the north: the Rajput kingdoms and Jat Bharatpur after the Mughal collapse, Rohilkhand, the reduced Awadh of 1803–56, Kumaon, Garhwal, Ladakh and Sikkim. In the east: the Ahom, Koch, Kachari, Jaintia, Manipur and Tripura kingdoms. In the west: Kutch and the Khanate of Kalat.

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