Thiruvananthapuram: The last queen of Travancore, Pooradam Thirunal Sethu Lakshmi Bayi CI, who ruled the kingdom from 1924 to 1931, is a forgotten figure, though she had introduced many reforms ...

Technically speaking, even though she ruled from 1924-31, Sethu Lakshmi Bayi was only a regent, never the queen of Travancore. Yet, as Pillai makes amply clear in more than 500 pages, this senior ...

She was the last queen of Travancore who ruled between 1924 and 1931. KOCHI: Have you heard of Pooradam Thirunal Sethu Lakshmi Bayi? As a queen, Sethu Lakshmi m ...

Rani Sethu Parvathi Bayi and Rani Sethu Lakshmi Bayi of Travancore, Kerala. Unknown photographer, undated. Courtesy B Jayachandran/Tasveer India's royalty lost their official powers when the ...

Indira’s mother, Sethu Lakshmi Bayi, was at that time ruler of Travancore, and had, even as she went into labour, signed into law a “major agrarian reform” for thousands of farmers in her state.

He also says that there was a palace in Mudavanmugal that once served as a summer retreat or resting place for the Travancore royal family. “The last person to stay there was Sethu Lakshmi Bayi.

Indira Bayi, daughter of Sethu Lakshmi Bayi, who was Queen Regent of erstwhile Travancore, died in Chennai early Thursday. She was 90. Wife of the late K.K. Varma, founder-chairman of the ...

Aswathi Thirunal Gowri Lakshmi Bayi, member of the erstwhile royal family of Travancore, has called upon the Nair Service Society (NSS) to take the initiative to put an end to dowry system in society, ...