Editing Travancore (section)

====1. Padmanabhapuram Division====

The 1911 Census Report of Travancore states that Padmanabhapuram Division was the original seat of Travancore, where [[Thiruvithamcode]] and [[Padmanabhapuram]] are located.<ref name="Thiruvithamkoor">{{Cite book|title=Census of India, 1911, Volume XXIII, TRAVANCORE, Part-I, Report|last=Iyer|first=A. Subrahmanya|publisher=Government of Travancore|year=1912|location=Trivandrum|pages=19–22|url=http://piketty.pse.ens.fr/files/ideologie/data/CensusIndia/CensusIndia1911/1911%20-%20Travancore%20-%20Vol%20I.pdf}}</ref> The report further states that a vast majority of this division was ethnic [[Tamil people|Tamils]].<ref name="Thiruvithamkoor"/> Padamanabhapuram Division consisted of the present-day district of [[Kanyakumari district|Kanyakumari]] in [[Tamil Nadu]].<ref name="Thiruvithamkoor"/> The report also states that the two southernmost Taluks of this division, namely Thovalai and Agastheeswaram, geographically too more resembles to [[Pandya Nadu]] of [[Tamil Nadu|Tamil country]] and the eastern [[Coromandel Coast]] of the [[Madras Presidency]] than the rest of [[Malayalam]] country.<ref name="Thiruvithamkoor"/>