Acknowledgements

pp.：  14 – 16

Abbreviations

pp.：  17 – 17

Weights, Measures, and Currency

pp.：  18 – 18

Glossary

pp.：  19 – 19

Maps

pp.：  20 – 22

Introduction

pp.：  23 – 34

Inspiration for Research

pp.：  25 – 27

A Note on Sources

pp.：  28 – 31

Points of Discussion

pp.：  32 – 34

Chapter One: Getting to Know Places and Peoples: Cochin circa 1750

pp.：  35 – 66

Locating Fort Cochin

pp.：  37 – 44

Ports North of Fort Cochin

pp.：  38 – 40

Ports South of Fort Cochin

pp.：  41 – 44

Fort Cochin: A Fortified Town

pp.：  45 – 53

Dutch Administration of Fort Cochin

pp.：  49 – 52

The Port of Cochin

pp.：  53 – 53

The Peoples in and around Fort Cochin

pp.：  54 – 64

Within the Walls

pp.：  55 – 60

Outside the Walls

pp.：  61 – 64

Conclusion

pp.：  65 – 66

Chapter Two: The Metamorphosis of the Malabar Command (1750–1784)

pp.：  67 – 112

Changing Times: Europe and India

pp.：  67 – 76

Power Struggle in Europe

pp.：  68 – 69

The Scenario in India

pp.：  70 – 72

The Malabar Coast

pp.：  73 – 76

A Dance for the Bride

pp.：  77 – 93

VOC and Pepper from Malabar

pp.：  78 – 83

Profitability of the Malabar Command

pp.：  84 – 89

Batavia's Ill-founded Doubts

pp.：  90 – 93

From Black Pepper to Brown Soil

pp.：  94 – 109

Advocates of Landed Wealth

pp.：  95 – 98

Batavia's Men

pp.：  99 – 104

A Reassessment

pp.：  105 – 109

Conclusion

pp.：  110 – 112

Chapter Three: The Social World of Fort Cochin

pp.：  113 – 168

Mestizos and Merchants

pp.：  114 – 137

Households and Family Units

pp.：  118 – 122

Servants of the Company

pp.：  123 – 130

Daughters, Wives, and Widows

pp.：  131 – 137

Living in Fort Cochin

pp.：  138 – 152

In Search of Livelihood

pp.：  138 – 143

The Circle of Life

pp.：  144 – 147

Daily Life

pp.：  148 – 152

Public Institutions

pp.：  153 – 164

The Court of Justice

pp.：  154 – 157

Church, School, and Orphanage

pp.：  158 – 162

Leper House and Hospital

pp.：  163 – 164

Conclusion

pp.：  165 – 168

Chapter Four: Days of Reckoning (1784–1795)

pp.：  169 – 196

Winds of Change

pp.：  170 – 175

England and the EIC

pp.：  170 – 173

The Dutch Republic and the VOC

pp.：  174 – 175

The State of Affairs of the Malabar Command

pp.：  176 – 182

Sale of the Malabar Command

pp.：  179 – 180

The Commander Leads

pp.：  181 – 182

The Take-over of Fort Cochin

pp.：  183 – 194

Contact for Conquest

pp.：  186 – 188

Declaring Loyalties

pp.：  189 – 190

A Surrender?

pp.：  191 – 194

Conclusion

pp.：  195 – 196

Chapter Five: Life after the VOC

pp.：  197 – 222

Primary Changes after the Take-over

pp.：  197 – 203

The British Administration

pp.：  198 – 202

First Reactions of the Inhabitants

pp.：  203 – 203

New Opportunities

pp.：  204 – 209

Leaving Fort Cochin

pp.：  204 – 207

A Season of Lovers

pp.：  208 – 209

Staying On

pp.：  210 – 221

The Peoples Re-visited

pp.：  217 – 221

Conclusion

pp.：  222 – 222

Chapter Six: Adapting to British Cochin (1798–1830)

pp.：  223 – 246

Ongoing War

pp.：  223 – 231

The Demolition of Fort Cochin

pp.：  227 – 231

At Home in British Cochin

pp.：  232 – 241

Lingering Shadows

pp.：  232 – 241

New Prosperity or Wishful Thinking?

pp.：  242 – 243

Conclusion

pp.：  244 – 246

Conclusion

pp.：  247 – 254

Notes

pp.：  255 – 294

Appendices

pp.：  295 – 318

1: Memorandum of gardens and lands belonging to the VOC on the coast of Malabar, dated 1781

pp.：  295 – 298

2: List of people living in Fort Cochin towards the end of 1792

pp.：  299 – 305

3: List of people in the orphanage on the Heerenstraat in 1792, whose estates were being managed by the Orphan Board

pp.：  306 – 306

4: Number of households per street (1792)

pp.：  307 – 307

5: List of Residents of Cochin on 5 April 1814

pp.：  308 – 309

6: A few grave-stones of Dutch persons connected with Fort Cochin that could be traced in Malabar up to mid-nineteenth century

pp.：  310 – 310

7: VOC and EIC Commanders, Governors, and Governors-General

pp.：  311 – 312

8: Family-tree of families of Cochin

pp.：  313 – 318

I. Weyerman Family-tree

pp.：  314 – 314

II. Daimichen Family-tree

pp.：  315 – 315

III. Lunel Family-tree

pp.：  316 – 316

IV. Van Spall Family-tree

pp.：  317 – 317

V. Weinsheimer Family-tree

pp.：  318 – 318

Bibliography

pp.：  319 – 330

Index

pp.：  331 – 19

List of Maps

pp.：  20 – 45

1: Map of present-day Cochin

pp.：  20 – 20

2: Map of the Malabar Coast

pp.：  21 – 45

List of Tables

pp.：  46 – 85

1.1: The number of employees in India and Ceylon prior to 1750

pp.：  46 – 45

1.2: The number of employees in India and Ceylon (1751–1789)

pp.：  46 – 56

1.3: Households and population of Fort Cochin (1700 and 1730)

pp.：  57 – 56

1.4: Employees of the VOC in Cochin (1750 and 1755)

pp.：  57 – 57

1.5: Qualified employees of the VOC in Cochin (1750 and 1755)

pp.：  58 – 58

1.6: VOC commanders and governors of Malabar (1747–1795)

pp.：  59 – 82

2.1: Average yearly amounts of pepper in pounds bought by the VOC in Malabar (1740–1787)

pp.：  83 – 82

2.2: Amounts of pepper in pounds bought in Malabar and other places by the VOC averaged per year (1740–1749=100)

pp.：  83 – 87

2.3: Malabar local financial results in guilders (1749–1794)

pp.：  88 – 92

2.4: Gross profit and expenses of Malabar (1749–1784), according to VOC book-keeping system, added up for every five years

pp.：  93 – 114

3.1: Persons in Fort Cochin as part of households in Fort Cochin (1760 and 1790)

pp.：  115 – 118

3.2: Size of households in Fort Cochin (1760 and 1790)

pp.：  119 – 118

3.3: Slaves in Fort Cochin (1760 and 1790)

pp.：  119 – 118

3.4: Slaves per household (1760 and 1790)

pp.：  119 – 126

3.5: Qualified employees of the VOC in Fort Cochin (1760–1785)

pp.：  127 – 126

3.6: Total number of employees of the VOC in Fort Cochin (1760–1785)

pp.：  127 – 128

3.7: Number of VOC Employees (on land) in Fort Cochin (1750–1788)

pp.：  129 – 129

3.8: Company servants in Fort Cochin and their places of origin (1760 and 1788)

pp.：  130 – 133

3.9: Single women in Fort Cochin (1760 and 1790)

pp.：  134 – 85

List of Figures

pp.：  86 – 35

2.1: Malabar local financial results in guilders (1661–1700)

pp.：  86 – 86

2.2: Malabar net profit and loss (1661–1795)

pp.：  87 – 88

2.3: Malabar local financial results in guilders (1749–1794)

pp.：  89 – 115

3.1: Population composition of Fort Cochin (1760 and 1790)

pp.：  116 – 124

3.2: VOC employees in Fort Cochin (1750–1788)

pp.：  125 – 125

3.3: Qualified employees of the VOC in Fort Cochin (1760–1785)

pp.：  126 – 127

3.4: Composition of VOC employees in Fort Cochin (1760 and 1788)

pp.：  128 – 35

List of Illustrations

pp.：  36 – 339

1: A view of Cochin by James Forbes, 14 Feb. 1772

pp.：  36 – 55

2: Dutch houses in Fort Cochin

pp.：  56 – 192

3: View of Cochin with the Union Jack by William Alexander, circa 1800

pp.：  193 – 211

4: Gravestones of VOC personnel and family members in Fort Cochin

pp.：  212 – 339