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

• Superior document: TANAP monographs on the history of Asian-European interaction, v. 13
• Author: Singh, Anjana, 1976-
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Series: TANAP monographs on the history of the Asian-European interaction ; v. 13.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (339 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

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.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / A. Singh -- Introduction / A. Singh -- Chapter One. Getting To Know Places And Peoples: Cochin Circa 1750 / A. Singh -- Chapter Two. The Metamorphosis Of The Malabar Command (1750–1784) / A. Singh -- Chapter Three. The Social World Of Fort Cochin / A. Singh -- Chapter Four. Days Of Reckoning (1784–1795) / A. Singh -- Chapter Five. Life After The VOC / A. Singh -- Chapter Six. Adapting To British Cochin (1798–1830) / A. Singh -- Conclusion / A. Singh -- Notes / A. Singh -- Appendix 1. Memorandum Of Gardens And Lands Belonging To The VOC On The Coast Of Malabar, Dated 1781 / A. Singh -- Appendix 2. List Of People Living In Fort Cochin Towards The End Of 1792 / A. Singh -- Appendix 3. List Of People In The Orphanage On The Heerenstraat In 1792, Whose Estates Were Being Managed By The Orphan Board / A. Singh -- Appendix 4. Number Of Households Per Street (1792) / A. Singh -- Appendix 5. List Of Residents Of Cochin On 5 April 1814 / A. Singh -- Appendix 6. A Few Grave-Stones Of Dutch Persons Connected With Fort Cochin That Could Be Traced In Malabar Up To Mid-Nineteenth Century / A. Singh -- Appendix 7. VOC And EIC Commanders, Governors, And Governors-General / A. Singh -- Appendix 8. Family-Tree Of Families Of Cochin / A. Singh -- Bibliography / A. Singh -- Index / A. Singh.