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Also see The station at this town was on the [[MalabarMadras Railway]]which became the [[South Indian Railway]] [[Rail_gauge#Broad_Gauge|broad gauge (BG)]] '[[Jalarpet-Mangalore Mainline]]'
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|country= [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India India]
|transport=[[Madras Railway]], which became [[South Indian Railway]]
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'''Calicut''' was the headquarters of the [[Malabar|Malabar District]]
== Spelling Variants ==
Modern name: Kozhikode<br>
Variants: Calicut, Kalikot <br>
== Military history ==
==External links==
*[http://calicutheritage.blogspot.com/ Calicut Heritage]
*This India List A background description by Nick Balmer 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. [httphttps://web.archive.org/web/20200226035044/https://archiverlists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/thhyperkitty/readlist/india.rootsweb.com/thread/2007-024207842/1170927607 postIndia Princess] about mixed marriages mentions Calicut ''Rootsweb India Mailing List'' 8 February 2007, now archived.</ref>
*[http://historicalleys.blogspot.com.au/2012/01/danish-factory-in-calicut-1752-1796.html The Danish Factory in Calicut 1752-1796] by Maddy. historicalleys.blogspot
*[http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/bmpix/controller/index.htm Search the photographic Archives of the Basel Mission with search word Calicut]digitallibrary.usc.edu*[http://www.calicutdiocese.com/history.htm Roman Catholic Diocese of Calicut].The link at the bottom of the web page which says “Click here for the Chronicles" mentions some of the schools in the area.*[http://www.thehindu.com/arts/history-and-culture/a-milestone/article4013251.ece A milestone] by P. Anima October 19, 2012 ''The Hindu''. The Railway was opened to Calicut on the 2 January 1888*[http://keralastatearchives.org/main1.htm Archives Department Government of Kerala]**Records of the Malabar District of the Madras Presidency ( 1805-1956) are available in the Regional Archives, Civil Station Kozhikode***[http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-kerala/article2513726.ece A guide to Kozhikode archives] October 5, 2011 The Hindu
=== Historical books online===
*[http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?volume=9&objectid=DS405.1.I34_V09_295.gif Calicut] Imperial Gazetteer
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=-4xDAAAAIAAJ&pg=PP7 ''Report on the Medical Topography and Statistics, of the Provinces of Malabar and Canara: Compiled from the Records of the Medical Board Office''] 1844 Google Books. Includes [[Cannanore]], [[Tellicherry]], Calicut and [[Mangalore]]
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=rBNPAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA40 Calicut] page 40, ''The Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal Volume 68 1847''. Google Books. The cantonment was classified as one of the "Stations on the sea coast"
*[http://archive.org/stream/adescriptioncoa00barbgoog#page/n181/mode/2up "Kingdom of Calicut"] page 154 ''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
*''The travels of Pietro della Valle in India : from the old English translation of 1664'', edited by Edward Grey (late Bengal Civil Service) 1892 Archive.org [https://archive.org/details/travelsofpietrod00dell Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/travelspietrode00havegoog Volume II]. Pietro della Valle arrived in India 10 February 1623 at Surat, embarking from Goa 16 November 1624 including a visit to Calicut.
*[https://archive.org/details/TheZamorinsOfCalicutto1806 ''The Zamorins of Calicut (from the earliest times down to A. D. 1806'')] by K V Krishna Ayyar 1938 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/eurasiansofmadra0000thur/page/n7/mode/2up "Eurasians of Madras and Malabar"] by Edgar Thurston page 69-114 ''Madras Government Museum Bulletin'' Vol II, No 2 1898 Archive.org. Contains references to Calicut.
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