K. P. Padmanabha Menon

K. P. Padhmanabha Menon, B.A, B.L, M.R.A.S (Member of Royal Asiatic Society, London) (1857-1919) was an Indian historian, lawyer, Judge of the Madras High Court and also the Advocate General of Madras.

[1] K. P. Padhmanabha Menon's History of Kerala in four volumes with 2,500 pages was completed in 1910.

Padmanabha Menon used a portion of the Aluva Palace for this work.

[2] K. P. Padhmanabha Menon also wrote Kochirajya Charitram, a history of the Kingdom of Cochin, in two volumes, published in 1912 and 1914 respectively.

[3] K. P. Padmanabha Menon introduced the method of social history and is regarded as the first modern historian of Kerala.