Case study on masulipatnam
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Answer:The port city of Masulipatnam (Machhlipatnam) is aptly described by Arasaratnampresenting contrasting characteristics of ‘approval and hate’ as expressed by Europeantravellers:It is thus claimed as an excellent harbour and a dangerous roadstead, healthy andairy while also being putrid and of foul stench, well-watered and swampy, goodstately buildings and dangerously congested streets, a place of extensive and busycommerce and of rigorous state monopolies’ (Ray and Arasaratnam, 1994: 3).The city in its hey days was called bandar-i mubarak, but had a short life span. Itemerged into prominence in the late sixteenth century and saw its decline in the eighteenthcentury. Let us traverse the journey of the rise, growth and decline of the port and thecity.
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