Interesting account of life of Cochin Royal Family member Dr. Kocha Varma born 1937
http://cochinroyalhistory.org/profile.php has an interesting account of life of Cochin Royal Family member, Dr.Kocha Varma (Kochanujan Thampuran Rama Varma), who was born in 1937.
His early life was in Tripunithura, Kerala. He studied medicine in Kasturba Medical College, Manipal, Karnataka. He later went to USA in end 1965 to become a medical intern in a hospital in Cleveland, Ohio.
He became a urologist and set up his own practice in USA. He moved back to Kerala, India in 1993 but moved back to USA a year later. He got interested in Cochin Royal Family history and Kerala history. He invested a lot of time and effort for amateur historical research like visiting the British library in London, a historian in Netherlands and tracking down family history of General John Munro of Scotland, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Munro,_9th_of_Teaninich. [Munro, 1778-1858 was a Scottish soldier and was "Resident and Diwan of the States of Travancore and Cochin between 1810 and 1819" - Mackenzie, Alexander (1898). History of the Munros of Fowlis with Genealogies of the Principal Families of the Name. Inverness: A & W Mackenzie. pp. 427–430.]
From 2002, under auspices of Cochin Royal Family Historical Society an annual symposium was being (and perhaps continues to be) held. Dr. Kocha Varma seems to have shared material that he had collected from various sources at these events. Perhaps this http://cochinroyalhistory.org/ website was created a few years later.
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One of the reasons I find this account of Dr. Kocha Varma to be interesting is that he is a medical doctor who became an amateur historian of his family, the Cochin Royal Family. There is some similarity in his amateur historian work, and some amateur history related writings of mine, including that of my family, though mine is at a much smaller level and does not involve any travelling and meeting historians. My work is more an Internet based effort with interactions usually over email, and a little over phone.
Message (may not be exact text but similar) I sent to author using http://cochinroyalhistory.org/contacts.php on 12th July 2019
Very interesting to read about your early days in India. It is a chronicling of a feudal life that surely would have vanished from Kerala now. Also browsed through other parts of your autobiographical account.
If you want to read my account of my life till I turned 40, you may read the free e-book available through links here: Autobiography of an Indian Software Techie and Spiritual Aspirant – Part 1: Ebook free download and printed copy links, https://ravisiyer.blogspot.com/p/autobiography-of-indian-software-techie.html.
His early life was in Tripunithura, Kerala. He studied medicine in Kasturba Medical College, Manipal, Karnataka. He later went to USA in end 1965 to become a medical intern in a hospital in Cleveland, Ohio.
He became a urologist and set up his own practice in USA. He moved back to Kerala, India in 1993 but moved back to USA a year later. He got interested in Cochin Royal Family history and Kerala history. He invested a lot of time and effort for amateur historical research like visiting the British library in London, a historian in Netherlands and tracking down family history of General John Munro of Scotland, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Munro,_9th_of_Teaninich. [Munro, 1778-1858 was a Scottish soldier and was "Resident and Diwan of the States of Travancore and Cochin between 1810 and 1819" - Mackenzie, Alexander (1898). History of the Munros of Fowlis with Genealogies of the Principal Families of the Name. Inverness: A & W Mackenzie. pp. 427–430.]
From 2002, under auspices of Cochin Royal Family Historical Society an annual symposium was being (and perhaps continues to be) held. Dr. Kocha Varma seems to have shared material that he had collected from various sources at these events. Perhaps this http://cochinroyalhistory.org/ website was created a few years later.
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One of the reasons I find this account of Dr. Kocha Varma to be interesting is that he is a medical doctor who became an amateur historian of his family, the Cochin Royal Family. There is some similarity in his amateur historian work, and some amateur history related writings of mine, including that of my family, though mine is at a much smaller level and does not involve any travelling and meeting historians. My work is more an Internet based effort with interactions usually over email, and a little over phone.
Message (may not be exact text but similar) I sent to author using http://cochinroyalhistory.org/contacts.php on 12th July 2019
Very interesting to read about your early days in India. It is a chronicling of a feudal life that surely would have vanished from Kerala now. Also browsed through other parts of your autobiographical account.
If you want to read my account of my life till I turned 40, you may read the free e-book available through links here: Autobiography of an Indian Software Techie and Spiritual Aspirant – Part 1: Ebook free download and printed copy links, https://ravisiyer.blogspot.com/p/autobiography-of-indian-software-techie.html.
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