Tharoor

Tharoor is the family name of a prominent Nair Tharavadu of Kerala, India. The name dates to antiquity, and historians record that the kingdom in and around the modern-day district of Palakkad was called Tharoor Swarupam in the 14th and 15th centuries.[1] The family appears to have lost kingly authority thereafter, before the attacks in the area by Tipu Sultan of Mysore, and well before the absorption of the territory by the British into the Madras Presidency in the early 19th century. For at least three hundred years the Tharoor Tharavadu has been centered in the village of Chittilanchery.

Well-known Tharoors include:

  • Shashi Tharoor (1956- ), author, former United Nations Under-Secretary-General and former Minister of State for External Affairs of India;
  • his father Chandran Tharoor (1929–93), newspaper executive and president of the Advertising Club of Calcutta;
  • Tharoor Parameshwaran (1917–2004), founding managing director of Reader's Digest India;
  • C.Tharoor Balan (1925- ), former finance director of the Union Carbide Corporation;
  • Tharoor Madhavi Amma (1915–1987,) physician and founder of Dr. T. Madhavi Amma Medical Trust, Palakkad;
  • Tharoor Bhaskaran (1935- ), former chairman and managing director of Otto India.

Prominent current generation Tharoors include three journalists and writers: Ishaan Tharoor of the Washington Post, novelist Kanishk Tharoor, and Ragini Srinivasan Tharoor, former editor of India Currents.

See also

References

  1. ↑ A History of Kerala by K.P. Sreedhara Menon


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