Masulipatam

Masulipatam
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Presidency: Madras
Coordinates:	16.17°N, 81.13°E
Altitude:	14 metres (46 ft)
Present Day Details
Place Name:	Machilipatnam
State/Province:	Andhra Pradesh
Country:	India
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Masulipatam was one of the early East India Company Factories on the Coromandel Coast. It was the headquarters of the Kistna District of Madras during the British period.

It was also one of the subsidiary trading stations of the French East India Company.

Military history

Battle of Masulipatnam 1759

Spelling Variants

Modern name: Machilipatnam
Variants: Masulipatnam/Masulipatam/Masulipatanam/Machhlipatan/Bandar

External links

• Masulipatam Town Imperial Gazetteer
  
• Portuguese cemetery discovered near Machilipatnam G.V.R. Subba Rao February 7, 2013 The Hindu Machilipatnam. There is a brief mention that Europeans were buried in " St. John Burial yard at Bandar Kota", "St. Mary’s Church at Englishpalem" and the Dutch Cemetery at Valandapalem

Historical books online

• Masulipatam page 45, The Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal Volume 68 1847. Google Books. The cantonment was classified as one of the "Stations on the sea coast"
• A Manual of the Kistna District in the Presidency of Madras by Gordon Thomson Mackenzie 1883 Archive.org
  • "Annals of Masulipatam" page 87
• Account of the storm and flood of the night of 1 November 1864 page 119
• St John’s and St Mary’s Churches,  Masulipatam ,  page 175 The Church in Madras, Volume II by Rev Frank Penny 1912 Archive.org
  • The military cemetery in the Fort page 177