Thenkumariyin Kathai - History of Kanyakumari District by A.KPerumal (தென்குமரியின் கதை )

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Picked this book in chennai book fair , very much excited to know the history of my district.Author cover the history of kanyakumari district from AD 1 - 1956 .

Few information from this book ....

First bus service started ( Nagercoil )from 1913
Burtons steam buses was running from Nagercoil to Trivandrum took 8 Hr to cover this distance in 1919 !!
 ( now we can reach this distance in 1-1.5 hr )

Mahatma Gandhi has traveled to Kanyakumari for 4 times
1925 first time
1927 Oct 8
1934 Jan 23
1937 Jan 15

1956 Kanyakumari district merge with Tamil Nadu

Life of kings and Queens , peoples culture , people struggle .. Good to know all the information .Plan to read some more book on this topic .

If you want to understand the present then you need to know the history !!

Comments

Unknown said…
Great job Allwyn!!
I learn a lot of stuff from your blogs. Keep up the steam!! :)

Vijay C.
1 March 2010 at 23:03
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