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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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{{Places of Interest|title=Cochin|name=Cochin |link=http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msa=0&msid=211401480495186034184.0004b904fc34ca2d03743&ie=UTF8&t=m&z=18&vpsrc=1}}
'''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==
==Fort Cochin area==
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==
*[[St Francis Church, Cochin]] == Interactive Map == <div style="float: right;"><googlemap version="0.9" lat="9.9509843" lon="76.251649" zoom="12" 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 including details of interest in Kochimemorial inscriptions. 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==
:*[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 />
*This [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://archiverwww.columbia.rootswebedu/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.ancestrythehindu.com/thfeatures/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://readhdl.handle.net/india1887/12087 ''Fort Cochin in Kerala 1750-1830 : the social condition of a Dutch community in an Indian milieu''] by Anjana Singh. June 2007Doctoral thesis, Leiden University [Digital] Repository. Subsequently published in the series TANAP monographs on the history of the Asian-02European interaction ; v. 13.**[http://1170927607 postwww.brown.edu/Departments/Portuguese_Brazilian_Studies/ejph/html/issue17/pdf/v9n1a07.pdf Article about the thesis/book] about 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 mixed marriages mentions 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. ==References==<references/> {{#widget:Google PlusOne|size=small|count=true}}
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