Aikya Keralam Thampuran

Kerala Varma Thampuran (1870 – July 1948) popularly known as Aikya Keralam Thampuran or Kerala Varma VII was the Maharaja (king) of Cochin who ruled between 1946 and 1949.

He mooted the idea of a unified Kerala state in India for the Malayalam speaking population and stood for the merging of British Malabar, Cochin and Travancore.

He was also the brain behind the formation of Sree Kerala Varma College at Thrissur, named after him.

[2] In April 1947, he inaugurated the Aikya Kerala Convention held in Thrissur under the chairmanship of K.

[3] He was later known as the 'Aikya Keralam Thampuran' for his stand for the amalgamation of Malabar District, Cochin and Travancore to form a unified Kerala state.