Travancore: The Footprints of Destiny is an unusual work among the chronicles of the amazing history of Travanore. The author, the present Maharaja of Travancore, renders his life story from the larger perspective of the historical forces that have shaped the life and times of Travancore during the past millennia. The grand sweep of history reaches its spectacular culmination, as it were, in the historic rites of passage—the accession of Travancore to the ...
