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- ↑ Travancore (Princely State) (1996). The Travancore State Manual: Administration. Government of Kerala, Kerala Gazetteers Department. p. 13. ISBN 9788185499260.
- ↑ The Indian Nation Builders, Volume 2. Mittal Publications. 1989. p. 333.
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