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Cochin : Fame and Fables
Publisher:
Paper Missile
| Author:
M K Das
| Language:
English
| Format:
Hardback
Publisher:
Paper Missile
Author:
M K Das
Language:
English
Format:
Hardback
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Dot on the international maritime route, Cochin (now Kochi), was a rewarding destination for explorers, traders and chroniclers around the world from time immemorial. Some came to trade in its hottest product, spices, some to escape persecution back home, and a few others for peaceful living with a comfortable career to boot. From royalty down to the rabble, all found a warm welcome in abundance.
Cochin surfaced from the sea as the favoured port of call in the mid-14th century. As a cluster of marshy islets, not all of which hospitable enough for habitation, it wasn’t much of a landmass to crow about. But slowly and steadily it started growing into a city that is presently closer to being a metropolis.
The history of this small port-town saw the rise and fall of many powers, the complicated trajectories of the diverse people who made a home out of it, and crucially, the confluence of seemingly favoured faiths and conflicting cultures yoked together by visionaries who could imagine a better future of its citizens—here is the story of Cochin’s transformation.
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Dot on the international maritime route, Cochin (now Kochi), was a rewarding destination for explorers, traders and chroniclers around the world from time immemorial. Some came to trade in its hottest product, spices, some to escape persecution back home, and a few others for peaceful living with a comfortable career to boot. From royalty down to the rabble, all found a warm welcome in abundance.
Cochin surfaced from the sea as the favoured port of call in the mid-14th century. As a cluster of marshy islets, not all of which hospitable enough for habitation, it wasn’t much of a landmass to crow about. But slowly and steadily it started growing into a city that is presently closer to being a metropolis.
The history of this small port-town saw the rise and fall of many powers, the complicated trajectories of the diverse people who made a home out of it, and crucially, the confluence of seemingly favoured faiths and conflicting cultures yoked together by visionaries who could imagine a better future of its citizens—here is the story of Cochin’s transformation.
About Author
M K Das is a Kochi-based writer and columnist with a career in print media spanning over four decades. He was the resident editor of the southern edition of The Financial Express. Later he was the Editor (Kerala) first of The Indian Express and later of The New Indian Express. His books include Anchor Cochin, a coffee-table volume on Cochin published by the Cochin Port Trust; A Southern Odyssey, the corporate story of the Trichur-based South Indian Bank; Tryst With Bulls and Bears about the Cochin-based Geojit Financial Services Ltd., A Journey Through Time 1857- 2007 about the Cochin Chamber of Commerce and Industry, which he coauthored; and Saga of Kalpathy about the migration of Tamil Brahmins to Kerala since 13th century.
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