Content deleted Content added
No edit summary Tags: Visual edit Mobile edit Mobile web edit |
Moving from Category:Natural regions of Asia to Category:Natural regions of India using Cat-a-lot |
||
| (11 intermediate revisions by 10 users not shown) | |||
Line 5:
{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2016}}
{{More citations needed|date=May 2013}}
[[File:Coromandel Coast 1753.jpg|thumb|A 1753 French Map of the Coromandel coast]]
The land of the [[Chola dynasty]] was called Cholamandalam in [[Tamil language|Tamil]], literally translated as "[[Mandala (political model)|the realm]] of the Cholas", from which Coromandel is derived.
Line 14:
The land of the [[Chola dynasty]] was called ''Cholamandalam'' (சோழ மண்டலம்) in [[Tamil language|Tamil]], translated as ''The realm of the Cholas'', from which the Portuguese derived the name ''Coromandel''.<ref name="TheLandoftheTamuliansandItsMissions">''The Land of the Tamulians and Its Missions'', by Eduard Raimund Baierlein, James Dunning Baker</ref><ref name="South Indian Coins - Page 61">South Indian Coins – Page 61 by T. Desikachari – Coins, Indic – 1984</ref><ref name="Indian History - Page 112">Indian History – Page 112</ref><ref name="Annals of Oriental Research - Page 1">''Annals of Oriental Research'' – Page 1 by University of Madras – 1960</ref><ref name="The Periplus of the Erythræan Sea">''The Periplus of the Erythræan Sea'' by [[Wilfred Harvey Schoff]]</ref> The name could also be derived from ''Karai mandalam'', meaning ''The realm of the Shores''.<ref>{{cite book|author=Edgar Thurston|title=The Madras Presidency with Mysore, Coorg and the Associated States|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=O4VLY1KcltcC&pg=PA11|year=2011|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-107-60068-3|page=11}}</ref>
Another theory is that the first Dutch ship to India stopped at Karimanal, an island village to the north of [[Pulicat]]. The sailors aboard the ship mispronounced the village's name as 'Corimondal' and the name stuck thereafter.<ref>{{Cite web |title=A Brief Narrative of The Danish Mission on the Coast of Coromandel par Baron Alanson Stow (1801-1869): Good Hardcover (1837) 1st Edition {{!}} The Book Collector, Inc. ABAA, ILAB |url=https://www.abebooks.fr/edition-originale/Brief-Narrative-Danish-Mission-Coast-Coromandel/75725692/bd |access-date=2024-04-01 |website=www.abebooks.fr |language=fr}}</ref>
Coromondel is the Dutch pronunciation of the word "Karimandalam", a village in the [[Sriharikota|Sriharikota island]] in the north of [[Pazhaverkadu|Pazhavercadu]] (Pulecat Lake).<ref>Topographic Map of India "66C/7 & 66C/11" by Survey of India</ref> An Italian explorer, [[Ludovico di Varthema]], perhaps first gave the name Coromandel in 1510, which was then used on maps by the Portuguese, but it was the Dutch who took up serious trading there.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.thehindu.com/books/how-a-coast-got-its-name/article21386207.ece |title=How A Coast Got Its Name |last=Allen |first=Charles |date=13 December 2017 |newspaper=The Hindu |department=Books|access-date=24 December 2020 }}</ref>▼
▲
===Flora===
Line 23 ⟶ 25:
==History==
[[File:Sarasa chintz.jpg|thumb|upright|Sarasa [[chintz]] from the Coromandel Coast, 17th or 18th century, made for the Japanese market. Private collection, [[Nara Prefecture]]. ]]
By late 1530 the Coromandel Coast was home to three Portuguese settlements at [[Nagapattinam]], [[Dioceses of Saint Thomas of Mylapore|São Tomé de Meliapore]], and [[Pulicat]] . In the 17th and 18th centuries, the Coromandel Coast was the scene of rivalries among European powers for control of the India trade. The British established themselves at [[Fort St George]] ([[Chennai|Madras]]) and [[Masulipatnam]], the [[Dutch Coromandel|Dutch]] at Pulicat, [[Sadras]] and [[Covelong]], the French at [[Pondicherry (city)|Pondicherry]], [[Karaikal]] and [[Nizampatnam]], the [[Denmark|Danish]] in [[Tharangambadi|Dansborg]] at Tharangambadi.{{Citation needed|date= January 2022}}
The Coromandel Coast supplied [[Indian Muslim]] [[eunuch]]s to the Thai palace and court of [[History of Thailand|Siam]] (modern Thailand).<ref>Peletz (2009), p. 73 {{Google books|BFXpi5ZKKF8C|Gender Pluralism: Southeast Asia Since Early Modern Times|page=73}}</ref><ref>Peletz (2009), p. 73 {{Google books|-YnQJXxspJUC|Gender Pluralism: Southeast Asia Since Early Modern Times|page=73}}</ref> The Thai at times asked eunuchs from China to visit the court in Thailand and advise them on court ritual since they held them in high regard.<ref>Peletz (2009), p. 75 {{Google books|BFXpi5ZKKF8C|Gender Pluralism: Southeast Asia Since Early Modern Times|page=75}}</ref><ref>Peletz (2009), p. 75 {{Google books|-YnQJXxspJUC|Gender Pluralism: Southeast Asia Since Early Modern Times|page=75}}</ref>
Line 31 ⟶ 33:
Two of the famous books on the economic history of the Coromandel Coast are ''Merchants, companies, and commerce on the Coromandel Coast, 1650–1740'' (Arasaratnam, Oxford University Press, 1986) and ''The World of the Weaver in Northern Coromandel, {{circa|1750|1850}}'' (P. Swarnalatha, Orient Longman, 2005).
On 26 December 2004, one of the deadliest natural disasters in modern history, the [[2004 Indian Ocean earthquake|Indian Ocean earthquake]], struck off the western coast of [[Sumatra]] (Indonesia). The [[earthquake]] and subsequent tsunami reportedly killed over 220,000 people around the rim of the [[Indian Ocean]]. The tsunami devastated the Coromandel Coast, killing many and sweeping away many coastal communities.<ref>{{
==Applications of the name==
Line 39 ⟶ 41:
In [[Slovenian language|Slovene]], the [[idiom]] ''Indija Koromandija'' (India Coromandel) means a land of plenty,<ref>{{cite web |work=Slovar slovenskega knjižnega jezika [Dictionary of Slovenian Literary Language] |url=http://bos.zrc-sazu.si/cgi/a03.exe?name=sskj_testa&expression=indija+koromandija&hs=1 |title=Indija Koromandija |quote=According to popular belief, a land where everything is enough, where it is very good: their grandmother told them about India Coromandel / expressing all of her India Coromandel collapsed imaginary, expected happiness |language=sl |access-date=December 24, 2020 }}</ref> a promised land, a utopia where "Houses are bleached with cheese and covered with cake".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://razvezanijezik.org/?page=indija+koromandija |title=Razvezani jezik - Indija koromandija |language=sl |work=Free dictionary of living Slovene |access-date=December 24, 2020 |quote= A folk song sings: India Koromandija! /They cook the porridge in a spoon, /the house are bleached with cheese,/ cover them with cake,/ and curd them with cottage cheese. It also houses the first Slovene anti-utopia, created by Anton Mahnič in In 1884 he published in Slovene, a political newspaper for the Slovene nation.}}</ref>
[[Edward Lear]] situates his nonsense poem ''The Yonghy Bonghy Bo'' by citing Coromandel on the first line: ''On the Coast of Coromandel''.<ref>{{
The [[Coromandel Express]] is a train of the Indian Railways. The daily train runs down the east coast of India between [[Shalimar railway station]], West Bengal, and [[Chennai Central railway station]], Tamil Nadu.
==See also==
* [[Coastline of Tamil Nadu]]
* [[Malabar Coast]]
* [[Presidency of Coromandel and Bengal Settlements]]
Line 71 ⟶ 76:
[[Category:Landforms of Tamil Nadu]]
[[Category:Eastern Ghats]]
[[Category:Natural regions of
[[Category:Colonial India]]
[[Category:Danish India]]
| |||