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Maharaja Moolam Thirunal Rama Varma, portrait by Raja Ravi Varma. The Travancore Legislative Council was established in 1888, three years after Moolam Thirunal became Maharajah. This was the first Legislative Council for a native state in the history of India.
The current head of the Travancore royal family is Sree Padmanabhadasa Sree Moolam Thirunal Rama Varma, born on 12 June 1949 at Kowdiar Palace as the youngest son of Maharani Karthika Thirunal Lakshmi Bayi by her husband, Lieutenant-Colonel P.R. Godavarma Raja/G. V. Raja of Poonjar Palace.
Swathi Thirunal Rama Varma II 1829–1846 Uthram Thirunal Marthanda Varma II 1846–1860 Ayilyam Thirunal Rama Varma III 1860–1880 Visakham Thirunal Rama Varma IV 1880–1885 Moolam Thirunal Rama Varma V 1885–1924 Pooradam Thirunal Sethu Lakshmi Bayi: 1924–1931 (Regent Queen) Chithira Thirunal Balarama Varma II 1931–1971
Sree Padmanabhadasa Sree Moolam Thirunal Rama Varma (born 12 June 1949) is the current incumbent to the throne of Travancore. [2] He is the youngest of the four children of the former titular Maharani of Travancore, Sree Padmanabhasevini Maharani Karthika Thirunal Lakshmi Bayi and her husband, Prince Consort Lt. Col. G. V. Raja of Poonjar Royal House.
Rama Varma was born in 1724 AD as the son of the Senior Rani of Attingal [2] with her husband Prince Ravi Varma Koil Thampuran of the Kilimanoor palace.He had a brother Prince Makayiram Thirunal, grandfather of Irayimman Thampi, who died young and thus Karthika Thirunal was destined to come into power.
As of 2011, the town had a population of 21,342. Padmanabhapuram was the capital of Travancore state in the past. In 1795, the King of Travancore, Rama Varma (known as Dharma Raja moved the capital from Padmanabhapuram to Thruvananthapuram. At that time the boundaries of Travancore state included half the area of modem Kerala state.
Sri Moolam Thirunal Palace or SMP Palace or SMT Palace is a palace situated near the heart of the city of Kollam, in the state of Kerala, India. It was constructed in 1936 as a commemorate for the shashtabda poorthi (60th birthday) of the then ruler of erstwhile Travancore, Moolam Thirunal Rama Varma. [1]
Elayarajah (Crown Prince) Avittom Thirunal Rama Varma (1938–1944), died at the age of six of a rheumatic heart condition; Pooyam Thirunal Gowri Parvati Bayi (born 1941) Aswathi Thirunal Gowri Lakshmi Bayi (born 1945), Indo Anglian writer, Maharaja Moolam Thirunal Rama Varma Sree Padmanabha Dasa Vanchipala, Maharaja of Travancore (born 1949).