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Fort Cochin in Kerala, 1750-1830 : the social condition of a Dutch community in an Indian milieu /

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 s...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Singh, Anjana, 1976-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010.
Series:TANAP monographs on the history of the Asian-European interaction ; v. 13.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Getting to know places and peoples: Cochin circa 1750
  • The metamorphosis of the Malabar Command (1750-1784)
  • The social world of Fort Cochin
  • Days of reckoning (1784-1795)
  • Life after the VOC
  • Adapting to British Cochin (1798-1830).