Fort Cochin in Kerala, 1750-1830: The Social Condition of a Dutch Community in an Indian Milieu (Tanap Monographs on the History of Asian-European Interactio) - Hardcover

Singh, Anjana

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9004168168 ISBN 13: 9789004168169

Publisher: Brill, 2010

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

Anjana Singh (1976) obtained her MA (1999) and M. Phil (2001) in history from the University of Mumbai. She obtained a doctorate in History from the University of Leiden in 2007. Her main interests are the social and economic history of early modern port cities and the history of Asian - European cultural interaction. Using English and Dutch sources she researches early-modern South Asia.

Edition details

• Publisher: Brill
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004168168
• ISBN 13: 9789004168169
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 340