Travancore Cochin

Travancore-Cochin - തിരു-കൊച്ചി

status	former state
Capital	Trivandrum
founding	July 1, 1949
Dissolution / merger	November 1, 1956 ( States Reorganization Act : incorporation to Kerala , to a lesser extent also to Madras )
Residents	8.58 million (1950)
languages	Malayalam , Tamil
Location of Travancore-Cochin in India (1951)

Postage stamp from Travancore-Cochin (1950)

Travancore-Cochin (Thiru-Kochi) was established on July 1, 1949 as a federation of the princely states of Travancore and Cochin , which had become sovereign again in 1947 and which joined India on the same date (see History of India ). On January 1, 1950, Travancore-Cochin became a category B state under the new constitution of the Indian Union with the Maharaja of Travancore as Rajpramukh (head of state).

On November 1, 1956, the principalities were abolished and the state merged with the Malabar district of the state of Madras to form the new state of Kerala . The extreme south was incorporated into the state of Madras (since 1969 Tamil Nadu ) as the district of Kanyakumari .

The posts of the two states were also merged in 1949. Their stamps were initially overprinted (TC or USTC = United State of Travancore and Cochin), and in 1950 their own Travancore-Cochin stamps were issued, which were valid until June 30, 1951. In 1951 the state had an area of ​​23,700 km² and a population of 9.3 million.

literature

• Andreas Birken : Philatelic Atlas of British India , CD-ROM, Hamburg 2004
• Der Große Brockhaus, 16th edition, Wiesbaden 1957
• George Bruce Malleson: An historical sketch of the native states of India , London 1875, reprinted Delhi 1984
• Joseph E. Schwartzberg (Ed.): A historical atlas of South Asia , 2nd edition, New York / Oxford 1992, ISBN 0-19-506869-6

Web links

• http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/
• http://www.uq.net.au/~zzhsoszy/ips/main.html
• http://www.worldstatesmen.org/India_princes_K-W.html

Individual evidence

1. ^ The Gazette of India Extraordinary. (pdf) The Government of India, April 17, 1950, accessed on November 6, 2015 (English, digital archive of the issues of the Gazette of India at http://www.egazette.nic.in/ ).