Author: Bristow, Robert Charles
Title: Cochin Saga : A History of Foreign Government and Business Adventures in Kerala, South India, by Arabs, Romans, Venetians, ..,.
Description: Cochin [Kerala], Paico Publishing House, 1967. 2nd Edition. boards. 22x14cm, 264(12) pp. Recent binder's blind boards.. 12pp photoplates.. Some rubbing 2 pinholes to margins of first 30pp. Good. ¶ Full title reads: "Cochin Saga : A History of Foreign Government and Business Adventures in Kerala, South India, by Arabs, Romans, Venetians, Dutch, and British, Together with the Personal Narrative of the Last Adventurer and an Epilogue". Contents: A Port History of 2500 Years: Roman and Pre-Roman; Roman and Post-Roman; The Portuguese in India; The Dutch in Cochin; The British in India (1600-1920); The Coming of Cochin as a Major Port; A Personal Narrative: Bridge of Admiralty; Riding the Bar; Bats and Zaribas; Currents - and Undercurrents; Under Way; The Rameswaram Problem; Tales by the Way; The way of a Harbour Engineer; Travail and Triumph; A Long Rest and a Cure for Acute Neurasthenia; The Fourth-Stage Preliminaries: The Beginning of the Battle; Conceptions and Influences; The Last Straites; Teamwork and its Rewards; Epologue: The Real India; Religion; The Story of 1941-58.

Keywords: Indian Colonial History, India, Cochin Port, Kerala, South Asia, , , ,