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The ship was named for the Coromandel Coast of India. Geography. The peninsula is steep and hilly and largely covered in bush. The Coromandel Range forms the spine for most of the peninsula, with the Moehau Range at the northern end providing the highest point at nearly 900 metres (3,000 ft).
Culture: India (Coromandel Coast), for the Sri Lankan market. Medium: Cotton (painted resist and mordant, dyed) Dimensions: Warp 44 9/16 in. (113.2 cm); weft 72 in. (182.9 cm) Classification: Textiles-Painted and Dyed. Credit Line: Purchase, Fernando Family Trust Gift, in honor of Dr. Quintus and Mrs. Wimala Fernando, 2010. Accession Number ...
Nov 2, 2017 · Coromandel. : Charles Allen. Little, Brown Book Group, Nov 2, 2017 - History - 432 pages. COROMANDEL. A name which has been long applied by Europeans to the Northern Tamil Country, or (more comprehensively) to the eastern coast of the Peninsula of India. This is the India highly acclaimed historian Charles Allen visits in this fascinating book.
RM 2K5W82K – Fort St. George on the Coromandel Coast. Belonging to the East India Company of England. The fort at Madras, modern Chennai, was founded in 1639 and was the first British fortress in India. From an 18th century print by an anonymous artist after a work by Jan Van Ryne.
Apr 7, 2021 · According to Ananda Ranga Pillai (1904 [1736-1761]), whose diary documented life on the Coromandel Coast between 1736 and 1761, gardens were a ubiquitous feature of the South Indian landscape. As a translator in the employ of the French East India Company, his diary provides glimpses not only into European activities but Tamil commentary about ...
Coromandel Coast kŏrˌəmănˈdəl , east coast of Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh states, SE India, stretching more than 400 mi (644 km) from Point Calimere, opposite the northern tip of Sri Lanka to the delta of the Krishna River. Its major cities, Nagapattinam, Puducherry (Pondicherry), and Chennai (Madras), are ports.
Mahabalipuram (or Mamallapuram), located along southeastern India’s Coromandel Coast, was a celebrated port city of the Pallavas. The group of monuments there consists of rock-cut cave temples, monolithic temples, bas-relief sculptures, and structural temples as well as the excavated remains of temples. The Pallava dynasty, which ruled this ...
