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'''Cochin''' (now called '''Kochi''') is a city in the modern state of Kerala.  In the British era it was part of the [[Madras Presidency|Madras (Presidency)]]. Kochi City comprises three municipalities in the Cochin area: Fort Cochin, Mattancherry and Ernakulam. Ernakulam is the largest urban area.
'''Cochin''' (now called '''Kochi''') is a city in the modern state of Kerala.  In the British era it was part of the [[Madras Presidency|Madras (Presidency)]]. Kochi City comprises three municipalities in the Cochin area: Fort Cochin, Mattancherry and Ernakulam. Ernakulam is the largest urban area.
==Spelling variants==
Cochin, Kochi, Kuchi


==History==
==History==
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==Fort Cochin area==
==Fort Cochin area==
Built around the old Portuguese Fort Emmanuel, this area is the oldest part of Cochin, with Portuguese, Dutch and British buildings.
Built around the old Portuguese Fort Emmanuel, this area is the oldest part of Cochin, with Portuguese, Dutch and British buildings.
*[http://www.thehindu.com/features/metroplus/new-life-for-a-monument/article4471942.ece "New life for a monument"] by Priyadershini S. ''The Hindu'' Kochi, March 3, 2013. The historic Bastion Bungalow in Fort Kochi will become a Heritage Museum.
*[http://www.thehindu.com/features/friday-review/history-and-culture/a-peek-into-indias-enduring-maritime-history/article4736411.ece?ref=slideshow#im-image-0 Slideshow: A peek into India's enduring maritime history] Photographs by K.K. Mustafah. The Southern Naval Command’s Maritime Museum, located at Fort Kochi, hosts a variety of exhibits tracing the origin and evolution of the Indian Navy.  ''The Hindu'' May 21, 2013


==Churches==
==Churches==
*[[St Francis Church, Cochin]]
*[[St Francis Church, Cochin]], including details of memorial inscriptions.
 
== Interactive Map ==
 
<div style="float: right;">
<googlemap version="0.9" lat="9.9509843" lon="76.251649" zoom="10" controls="small" icons="http://wiki.fibis.org/images/mapfiles/marker{label}.png">
(A) 9.965996, 76.241043, St Francis Church, Cochin
[[File:St Francis Cochin facade.jpg|80px|centre|St Francis Church, Napier Road,Kochi]]
(B) 12.991793, 77.612722, St John's Church, 132 St John's Church Road, Bangalore
</googlemap>
 
</div>
 
The map to the right shows locations of interest in Kochi.
 
Hover your cursor over the markers on the map to reveal the places marked or use the below index.
 
Clicking on the markers also produces a balloon with further location details.
 
<big>'''Locations index'''</big>
 
[[File:Church-2.png]]  '''A''' - St Francis Church, Napier Street<br />
[[File:Cemetery.png]]  '''B''' - Dutch Cemetery, Fort Kochi


==External links==
==External links==
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:*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernakulam Ernakulam]
:*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernakulam Ernakulam]
*[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=LFy4pWUlnfwC&pg=PA163&lpg=PA163&dq=Petree+1795+Cochin&source=bl&ots=e17N4F1eOx&sig=EVv3YTKx0tF-ikB2q0eJYxwAOl4&hl=en&ei=6vrDTuPaIM218QOZ-7y0Cw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&sqi=2&ved=0CB0Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false British capture of Fort Cochin] Google Books<br />
*[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=LFy4pWUlnfwC&pg=PA163&lpg=PA163&dq=Petree+1795+Cochin&source=bl&ots=e17N4F1eOx&sig=EVv3YTKx0tF-ikB2q0eJYxwAOl4&hl=en&ei=6vrDTuPaIM218QOZ-7y0Cw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&sqi=2&ved=0CB0Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false British capture of Fort Cochin] Google Books<br />
*This India List [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/india/2007-02/1170927607 post] about mixed marriages mentions Cochin
*[http://thefortcochin.blogspot.com.au/2008/01/dutch-cemetery.html The Dutch Cemetery Fort Cochin] thefortcochin.blogspot
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9WJ5Ucgmho Dutch Cemetery [Fort Kochi<nowiki>]</nowiki>]  by keralatourism  YouTube.
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UZITnPNZ9w Dutch cemetery-  Kochi]  City Time Aug 09, 2011 part 2 YouTube.  Not in English.
* Cochin is briefly mentioned in a background description of the social situation of Indian women in the settlements on the Malabar and Coromandel Coasts who married  Europeans  (in the years to c 1800-1820), where it is suggested this may have included Hindu women.<ref>Balmer, Nicholas.  [https://web.archive.org/web/20200226035044/https://lists.rootsweb.com/hyperkitty/list/india.rootsweb.com/thread/4207842/ India Princess]  ''Rootsweb India Mailing List'' 8 February 2007, now archived.</ref>
*[http://himalmag.com/lost-rulers-malabar-coast/  "Lost rulers of the Malabar Coast"] by N P Chekkutty 10 December 2012 himalmag.com. "Tales of love and loss from the heyday of Portuguese rule in Kochi".
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20121224021918/http://www.thehindu.com:80/life-and-style/society/step-into-history/article4222045.ece "Step into history"]: Jew Street, Mattancherry, Cochin by Priyadershini S. December 20, 2012 ''The Hindu'', now archived. Also see the page [[Jewish]]
**[http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Kochi/mattancherrys-463yearold-synagogue-now-a-cattle-shed/article5125062.ece Mattancherry’s 463-year-old synagogue now a cattle shed] by Nidhi Surendranath  September 14, 2013 ''The Hindu'' Kochi
*[http://himalmag.com/hell-ascension/?currentPage=all "Hell on Ascension"] by N P Chekkutty 19 December 2014 ''Himal South Asian''. Mentions the Dutch fort in Cochin which was involved in the trade of pepper and other spices c 1718, and the building of Lazarus House for lepers in 1728.
*[http://keralastatearchives.org/main1.htm Archives Department Government of Kerala] Records of the Cochin State (AD 1567-1949) are available at the Regional Archives, Ernakulam
**[http://www.academia.edu/1787722/_Gold-Leaf_Flattery_Calcuttan_Dust_and_a_Brand_New_Flagpole._Five_Little-Known_VOC_Collections_in_Asia_on_India_and_Ceylon_Itinerario_36_1_2012_  "Gold-Leaf Flattery, Calcuttan Dust, and a Brand New Flagpole: Five Little-Known VOC Collections in Asia on India and Ceylon"] by Lennart Bes ''Itinerario''  Volume 36  Issue 01  April 2012,  pp 91 - 106.  The section "Dutch Records, Regional Archives Ernakulam (Kochi)" commences page 91.
*[http://www.thehindu.com/features/metroplus/travel/they-landed-here/article4465585.ece "They landed here…"] by Arun Bhatia ''The Hindu'' March 1, 2013. Mentions the small port called Cranganore by the British, 35km from Cochin
*[http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00maplinks/mughal/bellincranganore/bellincranganore.html Cranganore] and  [http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00routesdata/1700_1799/malabar/cranganore/cranganore.html Early views of Cranganore] from Professor Frances Pritchett’s website.
*[http://www.thehindu.com/features/friday-review/history-and-culture/the-gothic-landmark/article5482157.ece The Gothic landmark] by Esther Elias  December 23, 2013 ''The Hindu'' Kochi. St. Albert’s Higher Secondary School was begun by the Carmelite Missionaries. The two Gothic red buildings were built between 1892 and 1897.
*[http://hdl.handle.net/1887/12087  ''Fort Cochin in Kerala 1750-1830 : the social condition of a Dutch community in an Indian milieu''] by Anjana Singh.  June 2007 Doctoral thesis,  Leiden University [Digital] Repository. Subsequently published in the series TANAP monographs on the history of the Asian-European interaction ; v. 13.
**[http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Portuguese_Brazilian_Studies/ejph/html/issue17/pdf/v9n1a07.pdf Article about the thesis/book] by Markus Vink  ''e-JPH'', Vol. 9, number 1, Summer 2011 brown.edu.
**[https://web.archive.org/web/20161102035129/http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-metroplus/the-dutch-who-stayed-back/article782720.ece  "The Dutch who stayed back"] by  K. Pradeep March 1, 2010 ''The Hindu'', archived.
====Historical books online====
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=H044AAAAMAAJ&pg=PP7 ''British and Native Cochin''] by Charles Allen Lawson 2nd edition 1861 Google Books. First published 1860
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=rXpCAAAAIAAJ&pg=PR1 ''The land of the Permauls: or Cochin, its past and its present''] by Francis Day 1863 Google Books <br />
*[http://archive.org/stream/adescriptioncoa00barbgoog#page/n183/mode/2up "Kingdom of Cochin"] page 156 ''A description of the coasts of East Africa and Malabar in the beginning of the sixteenth century by Duarte Barbosa, a Portuguese. Translated from an early Spanish manuscript in the Barcelona library'' with notes and a preface by Henry E. J. Stanley.  1866 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/reminiscencesofl00drurrich ''Reminiscences of Life and Sport in Southern India''] by Colonel Heber Drury, late Madras Staff Corps and Assistant Resident in Travancore and Cochin  1890 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.55396/page/n19/mode/2up "The Racial Affinities of the Jews of Cochin"] by Eileen W Erlanson Macfarlane page 1, ''Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal Letters'' Volume III 1937 Archive.org.
*[https://cgsc.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p4013coll8/id/2610        ''World War II Operational Documents: Port summary of Cochin, India, 1945''] from Combined Arms Research Library Digital Library.
 
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====Historical books online====
[http://www.archive.org/stream/landpermaulsorc02daygoog#page/n7/mode/2up ''The land of the Permauls: or Cochin, its past and its present''] by Francis Day 1863 (archive.org)<br />
   
   


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Cochin
Presidency: Madras
Coordinates: 9.9509843°N 76.251649°E
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Present Day Details
Place Name: Kochi
State/Province: Kerala
Country: India
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Cochin



Cochin (now called Kochi) is a city in the modern state of Kerala. In the British era it was part of the Madras (Presidency). Kochi City comprises three municipalities in the Cochin area: Fort Cochin, Mattancherry and Ernakulam. Ernakulam is the largest urban area.

Spelling variants

Cochin, Kochi, Kuchi

History

Cochin became the site of the earliest European settlement in India when the Portuguese landed in 1500. The Kingdom of Cochin (see Cochin State) agreed friendly relations with the Portuguese, who cemented their involvement in the city by winning a war with the rulers of Calicut. Although the Raja of Cochin was nominally in charge, the Portuguese effectively ruled the city from 1503-1663. The Dutch then conquered Cochin and ruled the territory until 1773 when Hyder Ali took possession. In 1814, the British acquired Cochin under the Anglo-Dutch Treaty in exchange for the island of Banca (in Indonesia).

Fort Cochin area

Built around the old Portuguese Fort Emmanuel, this area is the oldest part of Cochin, with Portuguese, Dutch and British buildings.

  • "New life for a monument" by Priyadershini S. The Hindu Kochi, March 3, 2013. The historic Bastion Bungalow in Fort Kochi will become a Heritage Museum.
  • Slideshow: A peek into India's enduring maritime history Photographs by K.K. Mustafah. The Southern Naval Command’s Maritime Museum, located at Fort Kochi, hosts a variety of exhibits tracing the origin and evolution of the Indian Navy. The Hindu May 21, 2013

Churches

External links

  • Wikipedia:

Historical books online

References

  1. Balmer, Nicholas. India Princess Rootsweb India Mailing List 8 February 2007, now archived.