> British could not plunder Travancore Kingdom in Kerala as much as they would have liked compared to say Kolkata which was another trade port Incidentally, Ko

> British could not plunder Travancore Kingdom in Kerala as much as they would have liked compared to say Kolkata which was another trade port Incidentally, Kolkata is not just a Communist hotspot, but has had the longest-serving democratic Communist government in the world. That has not worked out so well for Kolkata and West Bengal, sadly. Just pointing that out as a counterexample in another Marxist regime.