The Thirtieth Annual Report of the Calcutta Literary Society

Nothing is known of the subsequent history of Cochin State till the advent of the Portugese except that there was constant strife between its rulers and the neighbouring chiefs especially the zamorin of Calicut In 1502 the Portuguese were allowed to settle in the town of Cochin and in the following year they built there a fort. [...] On Tuesday the 22nd June [897 His Highness was created a Knight Commander of the Alost Exalted Order of the Star of India on the auspicious occasion of the Diamond jubilee of Her Most Gracious Majesty the late Queen Victoria Empress of India. [...] (Cheers.) The objects of the Society are "to hold friendly gatherings of the European and Indian communities and to discuss social literary and scientific subjects.' and the Society has thus been the means of bringing together the Rulers and the Ruled in one common platform. [...] (Cheers.) The Weaving School was opened on the tenth day of December 1905 under the management of Babu Pray.ish Chandra Mitra (the grandson of the late Rai Dinabandliu Mitra Bahadur) sho is most anxious to promote the wefare of the people and is taking great interest in the affairs of the Institution. [...] the Lord and the Commoner have the same voice in the The former were educated under the supervision of Babu administration of the country.