Dutch Malabar
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Dutch Malabar also known by the name of its main settlement Cochin, were a collection of settlements and trading factories of the Dutch East India Company on the Malabar Coast between 1661 and 1795, a
Quilon rulers submit to the Dutch.
The battle between the Dutch and the Portuguese in December 1661.
Capture of Quilon in 1661.
Malabari Muslim Sword
Travancore
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The Kingdom of Travancore, also known as the Thiruvithamkoor Kingdom and Travancore State, was a princely state in the Indian subcontinent that lasted from c. 1729 until 1949. It was ruled by the Trav
Dutch Malabar
…The Dutch never succeeded in establishing a pepper trade monopoly in Malabar and were all the more frustrated in their attempts when the young ruler of Travancore, Marthanda Varma, started to expand his kingdom. The Travancore–Dutch War that followed culminated in the Battle of Colachel, which proved disastrous…
Historic scene of canal in Travancore
Anantha Padmanabhaswamy was the national deity of the kingdom of Travancore.
Thambiran Vanakkam was printed at Kollam, the capital of Venad in 1578, during the Portuguese Era. It is the first book printed in any Indian language. It was written in the language Lingua Malabar Tamul, which was spoken in southern Kerala (Kollam–Thiruvananthapuram–Kanyakumari area) during the medieval period.
The British Residency in Quilon, where the resident of Travancore resided