Cosmos Malabaricus Project

Subject – Art and Culture

Context – Cosmos Malabaricus project gets green signal

Concept –

The State government has officially cleared the Cosmos Malabaricus project to map the history of Kerala between 1643 and 1852 using the Dutch historical archives of the 17th century.
The Department of Higher Education has issued administrative sanction for signing an agreement between the Kerala Council for Historical Research (KCHR), the National Archives of the Netherlands and Leiden University in the Netherlands for the project.
The seven-year collaboration aims to shed light on the history of Kerala using archival material pertaining to the Dutch East India Company available in India and the Netherlands.
The total project cost estimated for the KCHR is ₹4.5 crore. Leiden University will have to meet expenses, including travel, honorarium and so on, to be spent outside India