Ivory Throne: Chronicles of the House of Travancore by Manu S. Pillai

Ivory Throne: Chronicles of the House of Travancore

Manu S. Pillai

704 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
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In 1498, when Vasco da Gama set foot in Kerala looking for Christians and spices, he unleashed a wave of political fury that would topple local powers like a house of cards. The cosmopolitan fabric of a vibrant trading society - with its Jewish an...

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