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[[File:Archkilimanoor.jpg|thumb|right|Entrance to the Kilimanoor Palace or "Arch"]]
'''Kilimanoor Palace''' is a palace located in [[Kilimanoor]], in the Indian state of [[Kerala]]. It is the birthplace of painter [[Raja Ravi Varma]] and Raghava Varma, the father of king [[Marthanda Varma]].<ref name="Thrippadidaanam">{{cite book|last1=Mheshwari|first1=S Uma|title=Thrippadidaanam|publisher=Mathrubhumi Books|isbn=978-81-8265-947-6|pages=41–53}}</ref>

==The Palace==
The Palace complex covers more than six hectares, and comprises the traditional residential structures of Kerala, like the Nalukettu, small and medium-sized buildings, two ponds, wells and sacred groves (''kaavu'').
Raja Ravi Varma is said to have built and maintained some of the buildings from the proceeds of his paintings.
Families related to the Travancore royal house continue to live here.

==History==
The royal house at Choottayil, [[Kilimanoor]] has a history stretching back more than 300 years, although the oldest buildings are from a much earlier period. However, it was in 1753 that the palace was built in its present form.

===Kilimanoor palace and Travancore royal house===

The estate of Kilimanoor originally belonged to a [[Pillai (Kerala title)|Pillai]] ruling chief and was forfeited to Travancore by Maharaja Marthanda Varma. The estate comprising several villages was then handed over to the family of the father of the King who had come south from Parappanad in Malabar around 1718. <ref>(See page 4 in Madras Presidency Records, 1915, Supt , Government Press, Madras.) </ref>

In 1705 ([[Malayalam era|ME]] 880) the son and two daughters of Ittammar Raja of [[Beypore]] Thattarikovilakam, a [[Parappanad]] royal house, were adopted into the Royal house of [[Venad]]. Ittammar Raja's sister and her sons, Rama Varma and Raghava Varma, settled in Kilimanoor and married the now adopted sisters. [[Marthanda Varma]], the founder of the Kingdom of [[Travancore]], was the son of Raghava Varma. The nephew<ref>Sister's son. According to the matrilineal system prevalent at that time children born of the female members only belonged to that house.</ref> of Raghava Varma, Ravi Varma Koil Thampuran, married the sister of Marthanda Varma. Their son became known as [[Dharma Raja]] Kartika Thirunnal Rama Varma.

In 1740 when an allied force,<ref>The forces were from Kochi, Thekkumkoor, Deshinganad (present kollam) and Purakkad who had enmity towards Marthanda Varma</ref> led by Dutchman Captain Hockert supporting the Deshinganadu King, attacked Venad, an army from Kilimanoor resisted and then defeated them. Although a small victory, this was the first time an Indian army had defeated a European power. In 1753, in recognition of this feat, Marthanda Varma exempted the areas controlled by the Kilimanoor palace<ref>Most of the area under the present Kilimanoor and ''Pazhayakunnummel'' [[panchayat]]s.</ref> from taxes, and granted them autonomous status.<ref>Although under his kingdom</ref> The present palace complex was built at this time, together with the Ayyappa temple.<ref>The original temple being at ''Nerumkaithakotta'', near Kozhikode</ref> for the family deity, ''Sastha'' or Ayyapan.<ref>It is also said{{by whom|date=November 2012}} Shaastha and Ayyappa are different</ref>

[[Velu Thampi Dalawa|Velu Thampi]] [[Dewan|Dalawa]] held meetings at Kilimanoor palace while planning uprisings against the British. He handed over his sword at the palace before going into his final battle against the British, and India's first President, Dr [[Rajendra Prasad]] received this sword from the palace and it was kept in the [[National Museum, New Delhi|National Museum]] in [[Delhi]]. Afterwards the sword was moved to the Napier Museum, Trivandrum.

[[File:studiorrv.jpg|thumb|right|Birthplace of [[Raja Ravi Varma]] with his studio in the foreground]]

==Personalities==
*[[Raja Ravi Varma]], painter
*[[Kareendran thampuran]], poet, composer, childhood friend Of [[Swathi Thirunal]]
*[[Raja Raja Varma]], uncle of Raja Ravi Varma.
*[[C. Raja Raja Varma]] Koil Thampuran, painter, brother of [[Raja Ravi Varma]]
*Shri. Madhavan Vaidyan [Kilimanoor Royal Physician]

==See also==
* ''[[Marthandavarma (novel)|Marthandavarma]]'' (novel)

==References==
{{commons category|Kilimanoor Palace}}
{{more footnotes|date=November 2012}}
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20110110224042/http://www.swathithirunal.in/rel_kilimanoorpalace.htm Website on Swathi Thirunal]
*[http://www.keralatourism.org/index.php?zone=4&menu=19&issue=154&cat=8&news=2132065960 Kerala tourism]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20070929115043/http://www.newindpress.com/sunday/colItems.asp?ID=SEH20060420071548 Column in The Sunday Express by Shreekumar Varma]
* Sivasankaran Nair K, ''VeNAadinTe pariNamam'' (വെണാടിന്റെ പരിണാമം), in Malayalam,Current Books, 2005.
* From the Tourist brochure by '' Kilimanoor Kottara Charithra Sangraham'', Kilimanoor Palace.
*S.A.V.SMARAKA VAIDHYA SALA,TAZHAVA,KOLLAM[DIST]

==Footnotes==
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[[Category:Kingdom of Travancore]]
[[Category:Palaces in Thiruvananthapuram]]
[[Category:Royal residences in India]]

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