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To: Worswick who wrote (94)	4/1/1998 12:42:00 PM
From: Worswick	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12475

Whoops..."A Handbook for Travellers in India...John Murray (publishers). The correct title. In my copy, the revised 18th edition(1959), the introduction notes "the first of these parts appeared in 1859, the Bengal volume did not appear until 1882...in 1892 the Handbook ws issued in a single volume." Still the best guidebook to India.

To: Worswick who wrote (94)	4/1/1998 2:20:00 PM
From: Mohan Marette	Respond to of 12475

Moi? 'always right'? Worswick: Hardly but if you insist I go along with it.<gg> Can't say I have come across Murray's guide to India, seems like an ancient publication. Kochi-I know about St.Thomas and Vasco de Gama,but didn't know Kochi was the 1st European settlement.

To: Worswick who wrote (94)	4/2/1998 1:03:00 PM
From: Shivram Hala	Respond to of 12475

> Did you know that Cochin was the first European settlement in India? > That Christianity reached Cochin and Kerala in the Second Century > AD? That Vasco de Gama died in Cochin on his second trip there > (after circling the earth) but he had made a trip to Cochin first 25 > years before his death. I'm not sure if cochin was the first european settlement in india. I think if I remember correctly, it was goa that was the first settlement. I do some research on that. Goa was a portugese colony and the only one in india. While the british settled over the rest on india, the only exception was pondicherry which was a french colony. Incidentally, goa was the home of around 20000 jews (of the lost tribe ?) most of whom have migrated to israel.