TY  - BOOK
AU  - Das, M K
TI  - COCHIN : Fame And Fables
SN  - 9788119626472
U1  - 954.83 
PY  - 2024///
CY  - New Delhi
PB  - Niyogi Books
KW  - Kochi
KW  - Cochin
KW  - History and Geography
KW  - History of Asia
KW  - India and South Asia
KW  - Southern India
KW  - Kerala
N1  - 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 warm welcome in abundance.

Cochin surfaced from the sea as the favoured port of call in mid-14th century. As a cluster of marshy islets, not all of which hospitable enough for habitation, itwasn’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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