Fort Cochin in Kerala, 1750-1830: The Social Condition of a Dutch Community in an Indian Milieu

Review 'Anjana Singh's study changes our perception of the Dutch presence in India...'Zoltán Biedermann, Birkbeck College, London, Indian Economic Social History Review 2012 49: 273 Product Description This study of the early modern fortress town of Cochin in India, based on the rarely used VOC archival deposits in the Tamilnadu State Archives in Chennai (Madras), provides an intimate portrait of a Dutch urban community of East India Company servants and their dependents living within the larger social environment of the Malabar coast About the Author Anjana Singh (1976) obtained her MA (1999) and M. Phil (2001) in history from the University of Mumbai. She obtained a doctorate in History from the University of Leiden in 2007. Her main interests are the social and economic history of early modern port cities and the history of Asian - European cultural interaction. Using English and Dutch sources she researches early-modern South Asia.