Prakash Shenoy's Diary

This book specifically concentrating on the history of Travancore kingdom, a southern part of Kerala, also gives in-depth information of general history of Kerala, The famous Zamorins, The Vasco Da Gama etc. The story starts from 16 th century when Portuguese first succeeded to reach India. The rulers were rich through trade with Europe since thousands of years, but were fools not to create a good military force to counter aggression by external forces and also divided among small states within states, each fighting with each other to gain control over the region and trade. The great mistake they had done was partnering with European forces like Portuguese, Dutch, French and the British. These foreign forces took advantage of divided India to slowly swallow the whole India under British flag. For 200 years they used India as their source of free raw material and labour force to feed their factories in England. They used some of Indian Rajahs and Princes to help them control Indi