{"id":14976,"date":"2026-01-07T16:51:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T11:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gpura.org\/blog\/?p=14976"},"modified":"2026-01-07T16:53:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T11:23:17","slug":"1948-the-travancore-quarterly-civil-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gpura.org\/blog\/1948-the-travancore-quarterly-civil-list\/","title":{"rendered":"1948 &#8211; The  Travancore Quartely Civil List"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Through this post we are releasing the scan of <strong>The Travancore Quartely Civil List\u00a0<\/strong>published in the year 1948<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-14977 size-full\" style=\"font-weight: bold;background-color: transparent;color: #707070;font-family: 'Noto Sans', sans-serif;text-align: inherit\" src=\"https:\/\/gpura.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1948-the-travancore-quarterly-civil-list.jpg\" alt=\"1948 - The Travancore Quartely Civil List\" width=\"2172\" height=\"3615\" \/><span style=\"color: #999999\"><strong>1948 &#8211; The Travancore Quartely Civil List<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Travancore Quarterly Civil List was an official administrative publication of the princely state of Travancore (now part of Kerala, India). It served as the definitive directory of the state&#8217;s government personnel, published every three months to ensure records of seniority, pay, and postings were kept up to date.<br \/>\nThe list covered the entire spectrum of the state&#8217;s bureaucracy, detailed personnel across sectors like General Administration (Dewan, Secretariat staff, Treasury officers), Revenue (Land Revenue Commissioners, Division Peishkars, Tahsildars), Judiciary (High Court Judges, District Munsiffs, Magistrates), and Specialized Departments (Public Health, Excise, Forests, Education, Nayar Brigade).<\/p>\n<p>These documents are digitized as part of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/indicarchive.org\/blog\/madras-university-library-project\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Madras University Library digitization project<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>Metadata and link to the digitized document<\/h3>\n<p>Metadata and link to the digitized document are provided below. A facility to read the document online is provided in the item page.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Name: <strong>The Travancore Quartely Civil List<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Number of pages:\u00a0<strong>438<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Published Year: <strong>1948<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Printer: <strong>Government Press, Trivandrum<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Scan link:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/gpura.org\/item\/1948-the-travancore-quarterly-civil-list\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Link<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Through this post we are releasing the scan of The Travancore Quartely Civil List\u00a0published in the year 1948 1948 &#8211; The Travancore Quartely Civil List The Travancore Quarterly Civil List was an official administrative publication of the princely state of Travancore (now part of Kerala, India). 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