| Budget Amount *help |
¥2,730,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥630,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
This research explored changes observed in and around port towns on the Coromandel Coast in the later seventeenth and early eighteenth century. This work aimed to place the early history of Madras more in the context of local history of South India, as the process is usually considered to be the beginning of the English colonization of India and so has been examined mainly from the perspective of European expansion. For such a purpose it is necessary to examine multilingual primary sources including the records of both English and Dutch East India Companies and Persian manuscripts. Analyzing part of those materials shows us what changes the existing ports in the region experienced in those days, which provides appropriate examples to compare with the case of Madras.
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