The Travancore State Manual compiled by Sadasyatilaka Sri. T.K. Velu Pillai is a monumental work providing details of history, culture, administration, economy and society of Travancore. In 1936 Sri Velu Pillai was entrusted with the task of revision of the Travancore State Manual considering his vast experience, knowledge and scholarship. The original Manual was compiled by Sri V. Nagam Aiya in 1906. In the course of a painstaking revision of ...