 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 1947.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.