Travancore’s rights over the disputed water, agreeing also to pay a royalty for every unit of power they generated from it. They also withdrew a previous claim that only they had a right to set up a power plant, with the result that the state was now in a position to build a hydroelectric station in the hills, ‘if and when the need arises’.57 In other words, the Maharani successfully cleared the path for the establishment of the state’s first power station. And indeed when the Pallivasal Hydroelectric Plant was opened in 1940, Sethu Lakshmi Bayi would look back with satisfaction at having
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