{"id":15300,"date":"2026-01-30T14:00:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T08:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gpura.org\/blog\/?p=15300"},"modified":"2026-01-30T14:00:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T08:30:13","slug":"1941-statistics-of-travancore-1939-1940","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gpura.org\/blog\/1941-statistics-of-travancore-1939-1940\/","title":{"rendered":"1941 &#8211; The Statistics Of Travancore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Through this post, we are releasing the digital scan of\u00a0 <strong>The Statistics Of Travancore<\/strong> published in the year\u00a0<strong>1941.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15301\" src=\"https:\/\/gpura.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1941-statistics-of-travancore-1939-1940.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2411\" height=\"3686\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The 21st issue of Statistics of Travancore, released in 1941, offers a detailed socio-economic overview of the princely state for the 1939\u20131940 administrative year. Issued during Maharaja Chithira Thirunal Balarama Varma&#8217;s rule and Sir C.P. Ramaswami Aiyar&#8217;s Diwanship, it reflects an era of elevated literacy and budding industrialization amid the early World War II economy. The volume delivers in-depth data on demographics, trade, and public health, providing an essential historical glimpse of the region&#8217;s progress right before its merger into modern Kerala.<\/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 Statistics Of Travancore<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Published Year:\u00a0<strong>1941<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>No of Pages: <strong>404<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Printer:\u00a0<strong>The Government Press, Trivandrum<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Scan link:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/gpura.org\/item\/1941-statistics-of-travancore-1939-1940\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Link<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Through this post, we are releasing the digital scan of\u00a0 The Statistics Of Travancore published in the year\u00a01941. The 21st issue of Statistics of Travancore, released in 1941, offers a detailed socio-economic overview of the princely state for the 1939\u20131940 administrative year. Issued during Maharaja Chithira Thirunal Balarama Varma&#8217;s rule and Sir C.P. 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