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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''' (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]], including details of memorial inscriptions.
==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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