Through this post, we are releasing the digital scan of Travancore Administration Report For 1938 -1939 A.D published in the year 1940.
The eighty-third annual Travancore Administration Report for 1114 M.E. (1938-1939 A.D.) featuring a frontispiece map, comprehensively details the princely state’s affairs across 15 chapters, Starting with general information on physical features, population, religion, women’s status, history, calendar, currency, anchal system, royal titles, notable visits, ceremonies, British relations, and political agitation.Subsequent chapters outline Travancore’s governance (ruler, administration, taxation, legislatures like Sri Mulam Assembly and Sri Chitra State Council), finances (revenue/expenditure charts), and revenues from land, surveys, income tax, excise (salt, abkari, opium, tobacco), customs, forests, and stamps. Further sections detail judicial systems (courts, magistrates, high court), legislative proceedings (elections, bills), protective services (police, army, jails), production/industry (agriculture, fisheries, ceramics, co-operatives, backward communities), public works (roads, Kodayar irrigation, railways, Pallivasal hydro-electricity, telephones), commerce (trade, ports), education (schools to University of Travancore with stats and scholarships), local governance (municipalities, panchayats), Hindu devaswoms, and miscellaneous topics.This comprehensive record offers invaluable insights into pre-independence Kerala’s administrative legacy.
These documents are digitized as part of the Madras University Library digitization project.
Metadata and link to the digitized document
Metadata and link to the digitized document are provided below. A facility to read the document online is provided in the item page.
- Name: Travancore Administration Report For 1938 -1939 A.D
- Published Year: 1940
- Printer: Government Press, Trivandrum
- No of Pages:304
- Scan link: Link