Irayimman Thampi was already thirty one years of age when Swathi Thirunal Maharajah was born.

The next ruler Maharajah Uthram Thirunal Marthanda Varma AD 1847 – 1860, abolished slavery in the Kingdom in 1855, and restrictions on the dress codes of certain castes in 1859 following the recommendation of the Protestant clergy.

Maharajah Ayilyam Thirunal of Travancore ( center ) with the first prince ( left ) and Dewan Sit T. Madhava Rao ( right )

* December 25-Swathi Thirunal Rama Varma, Maharajah of Travancore, musician, composer and patron of the arts ( b. 1813 )

Avittom Thirunal Balarama Varma ( c. 1782 – 1810 ) was a ruler of the Indian princely state of Travancore from 1798 to 1810, succeeding Maharajah Dharma Raja.

At a young age he secured the patronage of HH Maharajah Ayilyam Thirunal of Travancore ( a relative ) and began formal training thereafter.

At this time his name was mentioned as " Raja Ravi Varma " for the first time, raising objections from Maharajah Moolam Thirunal of Travancore and besides, as per the Marumakkathayam tradition, the name of the maternal uncle ( Raja Raja Varma ) was prefixed to the name.

He had another daughter, Thiruvadira Nal Kochukunji Thampuran, grandmother of Chithira Thirunal Balarama Varma Maharajah.

In 1859 he was married to Her Highness Bharani Thirunal Lakshmi Bayi, the adopted niece of Uthram Thirunal, then Maharajah of Travancore.

Later, however, through palace intrigues and personal disaffection with the Maharajah Ayilyam Thirunal he was confined at Haripad forcefully in 1875, only to be released and reunited with his wife in 1880 by Maharajah Visakham Thirunal.

Born as Ravi Varman Thampi in 1783 to Kerala Varma Thampuran of the Royal family of Travancore and Parvathi Pillai Thankachi of the Puthumana Ammaveedu Thampi family, daughter of Prince Makayiram Thirunal Ravi Varma and niece of the Maharajah Dharma Raja of Travancore.

Another daughter of Thampi was married by Sri Narayanan Thampi of Arumana, son of Maharajah Visakham Thirunal.

In 1860 however, the orthodox Maharajah died and Madhava Rao's own pupil, the late Maharajah's nephew, Ayilyam Thirunal succeeded.

A title superior to the ordinary Pillai was that of Chempakaraman Pillai, an innovation of Maharajah Marthanda Varma of Travancore.

The Travancore Nair Infantry was formed in 1704 for the defense of the Maharajah Marthanda Varma, and distinguished themselves in battle against the Dutch at the Battle of Colachel ( 1741 ).

Palakkatsseri Valiyaraja Manikyamelidam Shekhari Varma ( the current Maharajah of Palghat ) is the second of his five children ( Since the first and second Rajas are residing outside India, it is the third Raja, KK Itti Pangi Achan who performs the religious duties on their behalf ).

When the then Maharajah of Travancore, Marthanda Varma, realised that the Rajah of Kayamkulam was involved in certain conspiracies against him, he became bent on destroying Kayamkulam and annexing the kingdom.

With this in view the Dutch Governor wrote of Marthanda Varma asking him to end aggressions against Kayamkulam to which the Maharajah wrote back asking him not to interfere in matters that did not concern him.

: The Court the East India Company you say, are ruffled by my having caused the Maharajah to cede to the Queen the Koh-i-noor ; while the ' Daily News ' and my Lord Ellenborough of India, 1841-44 are indignant because I did not confiscate everything to her Majesty ... motive was simply this: that it was more for the honour of the Queen that the Koh-i-noor should be surrendered directly from the hand of the conquered prince into the hands of the sovereign who was his conqueror, than it should be presented to her as a gift — which is always a favour — by any joint-stock company among her subjects.

Even a strongly solved game can still be interesting if the solution is too complex to be memorized ; conversely, a weakly solved game may lose its attraction if the winning strategy is simple enough to remember ( e. g. Maharajah and the Sepoys ).

It has even been shortened to " Mahraj " and " Maraj " but the most common is, of course, " Maharajah " and " Maharaj.

The Instrument of Accession is a legal document executed by Maharajah Hari Singh, ruler of the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir, on 26 October 1947.

In a letter sent to Maharajah Hari Singh on 27 October 1947, the then Governor-General of India, Lord Mountbatten accepted the accession with a remark, “ it is my Government's wish that as soon as law and order have been restored in Kashmir and her soil cleared of the invader the question of the State's accession should be settled by a reference to the people .” Lord Mountbatten ’ s remark and the offer made by the Government of India to conduct a plebiscite or referendum to determine the future status of Kashmir led to a dispute between India and Pakistan regarding the legality of the accession of Kashmir to India.

After its completion, it is said, Maharajah Ranjit Singh, at the suggestion of Jamadar Khushhal Singh, ordered that marble be removed from various mausoleums of Lahore to construct a baradari ( pavilion ) here.

Farah-Farah is an Indian princess and is the daughter of the Maharajah.

There is a memorial at Eton College in England to Princes Victor and Frederick, Maharajah Duleep Singh's two sons who studied at Eton in the 1870s.

Ahilya Fort is now heritage hotel, founded by Prince Richard Holkar, a descendant of both Ahilya Bai Holkar and the last Maharajah of Indore.

The interior is completely decorated in mosaic work carried out and paid for mainly by the then Maharajah of Gwalior of India about 1920 in memory of his doctor, Dr Crofts, who came from Timoleague.

It is dedicated to his generous patron, the Maharajah of Mysore.

The spot is a few meters away towards West from Samadh Maharajah Sher Singh at Kot Khawaja Saeed, Lahore.

Maharajah and the Sepoys, originally called Shatranj Diwana Shah, is a popular chess variant with different armies for white and black.

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It is situated in the Kapurthala city of Punjab state, in Jagatjit palace which was formerly the palace of the Maharajah of princely state of Kapurthala, HRH Maharajah Jagatjit Singh Bahadur.

Maharajah Lallu: The maharajah is a ruthless tyrant who plans on using the sunstone to take over Babloo's village.

Randolph was known for embroidering the truth when it came to his own autobiography ( he claimed that his mother Flora Randolph, an African American woman from Virginia, who died when he was eleven years old, had been a foreign princess ) but he was actually telling the truth — or something very close to it, according to his biographer John Patrick Deveney — when he said that he had met the Maharajah in Europe and had learned from him the proper way to use both polished gemstones and Indian " bhattah mirrors " in divination.

The trio discover that the Thuggee, led by their evil, bloodthirsty high priest Mola Ram, are in possession of three of the five Sankara stones, and have enslaved the children ( as well as the Maharajah ) to mine for the final two stones, which they hope will allow them to rule the world.

In addition to Czar Alexander III, royal patrons of Boucheron have included Maharajah Sir Bhupinder Singh of Patiala, Riza Shah Pahlevi, Queen Farida of Egypt and Queen Rania of Jordan.

Unfortunately, this treaty would have required the Ladakhi's to break relations with Ranjit Singh, the Maharajah of the Sikh Empire.

The Maharajah of Kashmir apparently sent a few soldiers to man the abandoned fort at Shahidulla ( modern-day Xaidulla ) at one point, by the time most sources placed Shahidulla and the upper Karakash River firmly within the territory of Xinjiang ( see accompanying map ).

Soldiers such as Field Marshal Lord Kitchener of Khartoum ( 1911 ) and Field Marshal Sir Frederick Haines ( 1891 ); two Indian maharajahs, including the Maharajah of Nepal ( 1910 ); and scientists including Charles Darwin ( 1882 ), the artist's father-in-law Professor Huxley ( 1891 ), William Kingdom Clifford, James Prescott Joule and Sir Michael Foster ( 1907 ).

After the comparatively humble Newtons left, the estate was owned by Prince Duleep Singh, the Sikh ruler of the Punjab and the last Maharajah of Lahore, and then the Guinness family ( Earl of Iveagh ).

Amjad Ali Khan ’ s ancestor Mohammad Hashmi Khan Bangash, a musician and horse trader, came to India with the Afghan rubab in the mid-18th century and became a court musician to the Maharajah of Rewa ( now in Madhya Pradesh ).

In an auction at Bonhams, London on 19 April 2007, the 74 cm high white marble portrait bust of Maharajah Duleep Singh by Victorian sculptor John Gibson RA in Rome in 1859 fetched £ 1. 7 million (£ 1. 5 million plus premium and tax ).

* The Duleep Singh's: The Photograph Album of Queen Victoria's Maharajah, by Pete Peter ( Bhupinder Singh Bance ).

In 1949 a Medtner Society was founded in London by His Highness Jayachamarajendra Wadiyar Bahadur, the Maharajah of Mysore ( a South Indian kingdom in the region of the current Indian state of Karnataka ).

Ghote's father appears in the novel The Murder of the Maharajah ( 1980 ).

Kesava Menon married Akathethara Manikyamelidam Laxmi Nethyaramma ( daughter of the then Maharajah of Palghat ).