ISBN:
9004190252
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9789004190252
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xxi, 317 pages)
Series Statement:
TANAP monographs on the history of the Asian-European interaction v. 13
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
954/.83
Keywords:
Nederlandsche Oost-Indische Compagnie History
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Geschichte 1750-1830
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Cochin
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Cochin (India)
;
Community life
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Dutch
;
Ethnic relations
;
Fort Cochin (Cochin, India)
;
History
;
India
;
Kerala (India)
;
Nederlandsche Oost-Indische Compagnie
;
Social change
;
Social conditions
;
HISTORY.
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Niederländer
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Soziale Situation
;
Geschichte
;
Dutch Social conditions
;
Community life History
;
Social change History
;
Niederländer
;
Nationale Minderheit
;
Alltag
;
Indien
;
Cochin-Fort
;
Hochschulschrift
;
Hochschulschrift
;
Cochin-Fort
;
Niederländer
;
Alltag
;
Nationale Minderheit
;
Geschichte 1750-1830
Note:
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 ..
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-307) and index
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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)
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