Madras Day: A touch of Dutch in Chennai

If the British weren’t more stubborn, we’d go to Dutch a long time ago. VOC (a long name showing Eastern Indian companies in Dutch) was long before the Eastern Indian Company, which we know it was very good in this region. And they were an important asset along the Coromandel coast. Their interest was mainly trade, especially cotton fabric woven in this region. While the British were still struggling to find a basis in Madras in 1639, the Dutch was well established in Pazhaverkadu Aka Pulicat, 60 km north of Madras.

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The British observed the Dutch, including the use of translators or Dubashes, and took the tricks of trade. And the first Dubash, Malayappa Chetty was at the service of both companies! In a short time, he frowned and Malayappa was apparently withdrawn from the British interests, but he successfully planted his nephews instead. The Dutch were not satisfied with the British, but the relations between the two were absolutely warmer than the French.

There are very few Dutch heritage in these sections. In Pulicat, there was almost nothing left from Fort Geldria, but the church in the village survives the Luz Church in a striking way. It is a cemetery with a lot of gravestones with interesting carving, which is quite convenient. In the south of Madras, there is a well -preserved castle and Sadras Aka Saturangapatnam. And at the Temple of Thirukazhukundram, there is an inscription in the Netherlands, which recorded the visit of a Dutch Guernorial party in the Netherlands. Verery’deki St. There is a Dutch grave in the Church of Mathias – the last place you expect to be in it. Pulicat Chairman Martin Stoffenberg. He came to Madras to get rid of a disease and died here.

The cemetery in Pulicat, where the Dutch can find tombstones with interesting carvings, is perfect. | Photo Loan: Hindu Archives

Flagstaff on the beach

A time at 17^th Together with Golconda, the Dutch organized San Thome. Their inheritance was a flagstaff of the beach, which was disappeared at a time at a time^th Century. Now St. There is a reserve known as Thomas’s staff!

The Dutch was successful in India, but at the beginning of 19^th Century decided that Indonesia was better, where he wounded all his operations. They left behind a few credit words – palacekat Was the word Lungis At least until the 1950s, for example, and this was the Pulicat connection. If you need more, look at the word Dutch toilet – KAK Huis. There is much more.

The Dutch had a great presence in Madras at the beginning of 20^th Century, through the Anglo-Holland company Shell, who came to India through the merger with Burmah Oil Company. The emerging Burmah-Shell was in Burmah Shell House, headquartered in Esplanade. He still continues, in 1975, Burmah Shell is known as Bharat Petroleum and building Chennai House.

Return after independence

After independence, the Dutch made a return as a partner in India’s industrialization this time. One of the first names may not be an entity in Chennai, but it is still a bus stop and ambatur – remembered through a junction in Wavin. For water and vinyl chloride, it produced short, PVC pipes and provided acceleration in irrigation and water source. Now, Wavin enters water management and has the presence of Pan-India, but his name lives here.

After independence, the Dutch made a return as a partner in India’s industrialization this time. One of the first names may not be an entity in Chennai, but still a bus stop and the short for water and vinyl chloride – is remembered through a junction in Wavin. | Photo Loan: Hindu Archives

A compatible asset in the city, a more harmonious fragrance, maschmeijer aromatic in Chromepet. He commemorates August Maschmeijer, an organic chemist in Amsterdam and pioneers many aromatic compounds. A representative of the company came to Madras in the 1950s and cooperation with the Badsha family began. Being continues to develop.

After liberalization, Dutch companies have an important asset in the city. There is a Dutch textile museum in the Netherlands, and there are several examples of cloth from this region that once brought traders remotely.