Southern Division (Travancore)
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| Southern Division | |
|---|---|
| Division of Travancore | |
| 1856–1949 | |
 Location of Travancore | |
| Capital | Padmanabhapuram |
| • Type | Monarchy |
| Historical era | British Raj |
• Established | 1856 |
• Disestablished | 1949 |
| Today part of | Kerala and Tamil Nadu, India |
The Southern Division, or Padmanabhapuram Division till 1921 and
Travancore-Cochin state of India
.
In 1956, the Tamil-speaking taluks of Southern Division were transferred to the neighbouring Madras State as per the States Reorganisation Act of 1956 and forms the present-day Kanyakumari district of Tamil Nadu. The Malayalam-speaking taluks of the erstwhile Trivandrum division form the Thiruvananthapuram district of Kerala. The headquarters of the Southern Division were at Padmanabhapuram.
Before the formation of the
See also
- Northern Division (Travancore)
- Quilon Division
- Trivandrum Division
References
- ^ Thomas Foulkes (1864). A classbook of the geography of Travancore.
- ^ Thomas Foulkes (1864). A classbook of the geography of Travancore.
- ^ Shungoony Menon, P. (1878). A History of Travancore from the Earliest Times (pdf). Madras: Higgin Botham & Co. p. 486. Retrieved 5 May 2016.
