TRIVANDRUM, or TREVANDRUM

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TRIVANDRUM, or TREVANDRUM , a city of southern India,

capital

CAPITAL (i.e. capital stock or fund)
CAPITAL (Lat. caput, head)

of the state of Travancore, situated 2 M. from the sea-coast. Pop. (1901), 57,882. It is the residence of the maharaja, and contains an

observatory

OBSERVATORY

and a museum, besides several other fine buildings. The

chief

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

fame of the place, however, centres upon the shrine of Sri Ananta Padmanabhaswami, a

great

GREAT

resort of pilgrims, round which the city grew up. The
best houses and

chief

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

public buildings stand on hilly terraces. The city contains the maharaja's college, a Sanskrit college, a high school, a school for girls, an industrial school of arts, and a

hospital

and medical school. There is little trade, but a speciality of

wood

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- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
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- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
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-carving. Trivandrum has a small seaport, but the vessels that

touch

TOUCH (derived through Fr. toucher from a common Teutonic and Indo-Germanic root, cf. " tug," " tuck," O. H. Ger. zucchen, to twitch or draw)

here have to anchor at some consider-able distance from the shore, and the port itself is not fitted for any

great

GREAT

commercial development.

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