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Nedumkotta or Travancore lines was a wall built as a protection against consistent invasions from Mysore during the (de facto) rule of Tipu Sultan. It was built by the Dharma Raja Karthika Thirunal (d.A D 1764), King of Travancore, with the request, support and permission of the Kingdom of Kochi.[1] It was constructed by Rama Varma under the supervision of his commander Eustachius De Lannoy. The work was started in 1762 it was completed only by 1775. The lines consist of a ditch about sixteen feet broad and twenty feet deep with a thick bamboo hedge in it, a slight parapet and good rampart and bastions on rising grounds almost flanking each other from one extreme of the lines to the other.[2] The construction of Nedumkotta or the Travancore Lines is considered to be a unique and unparallel episode in Indian History by historians.[3]
- ^ Praxy Fernandes, Storm Over Seringapatam, Bombay, 1969, p.117
- ^ The ditch was 16 feet wide and 20 feet deep (vide Nagam Aiya, V., The Travancore State Manual, Vol.I).
- ^ Panikkar, K. N.; Fernandes, Praxy (August 1991). "Men of Valour and Vision". Social Scientist. 19 (8/9): 109. doi:10.2307/3517708. ISSN 0970-0293. JSTOR 3517708.