Fort Cochin in Kerala, 1750-1830

Fort Cochin in Kerala, 1750-1830 PDF Author: Anjana Singh
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004168168
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 339

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Book Description
This study of the early modern fortress town of Cochin in India, based on the rarely used VOC archival deposits in the Tamilnadu State Archives in Chennai (Madras), provides an intimate portrait of a Dutch urban community of East India Company servants and their dependents living within the larger social environment of the Malabar coast. It shows how between 1750 and 1830 the population of this Dutch settlement had adapted itself to the fundamental political and economic changes that occurred as a result of local state formation processes, the demise of the Dutch East India Company, and the change of regime that occurred when English administration was imposed on Fort Cochin in 1795.