The state is wedged between the Lakshadweep Sea and the Western Ghats. Lying between north latitudes 8°18′ and 12°48′ and east longitudes 74°52′ and 77°22′,[93] Kerala experien [more]
After British India was partitioned in 1947 into India and Pakistan, Travancore and Kochi, part of the Union of India were merged on 1 July 1949 to form Travancore-Cochin.[87] On 1 November 1956, the [more]
The name Kerala has an uncertain etymology. Keralam may stem from the Classical Tamil cherive-alam (“declivity of a hill or a mountain slope”) or chera alam (“Land of the Cheras̶ [more]