{"id":26545,"date":"2024-09-13T07:59:24","date_gmt":"2024-09-13T02:29:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=26545"},"modified":"2025-10-07T11:48:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T06:18:09","slug":"sakthan-thampuran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/sakthan-thampuran\/","title":{"rendered":"Sakthan Thampuran"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Sakthan Thampuran:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Sakthan Thampuran, also known as Raja Rama Varma Kunjipillai or <strong>Rama Varma IX<\/strong> and ruled over the Cochin kingdom <strong>from 1790 to 1805.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>He was born in 1751 to Ambika Thampuran and Chendose Aniyan Namboodiri of the Cochin royal family, but was raised by an aunt who called him Sakthan, meaning \u2018powerful\u2019.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Strategist and ruler<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>As an 18-year-old he advised his king to maintain <strong>friendly relations with both the Dutch and the English<\/strong>, who were vying for a larger share of trade in the region.<\/li>\n<li>Sakthan is said to have <strong>orchestrated Mysore\u2019s attempt to invade the Travancore<\/strong> kingdom, which had established relations with the English East India Company.<\/li>\n<li>This would result in the <strong>Powney treaty<\/strong> which freed the Cochin kingdom from its allegiance to Mysore, and helped formalise its relations with the British.<\/li>\n<li>He ended the institution of the <strong>Yogiatirippads<\/strong> \u2014 the erstwhile spiritual heads of key temples of that time.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>He <strong>started the Thrissur Pooram in 1797<\/strong> as an alternative to the Arattupuzha Pooram, then the largest temple festival in the state.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What is Thrissur Pooram?<\/h3>\n<p>Thrissur Pooram is celebrated in Kerala during the Malayalam month of Medom (April-May).It is considered to be the Mother of all Poorams, a cultural highlight that towers above all other festivals.It is celebrated in the grand assembly of Gods and Goddesses in and around Thrissur.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/explained\/explained-culture\/who-was-sakthan-thampuran-whose-fallen-statue-in-thrissur-suresh-gopi-wants-to-reconstruct-9559218\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Who was Sakthan Thampuran, whose fallen statue in Thrissur Suresh Gopi wants to reconstruct<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sakthan Thampuran  also known as Raja Rama Varma Kunjipillai or Rama Varma IX and ruled over the Cochin kingdom from 1790 to 1805.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":26546,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-26545","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}