The Company opened an office in Sadras because of the high quality of the cotton fabrics manufactured there. The town's claim to fame was the extreme care with which the textiles were dyed. Another major factor was the wide of variety of rough and polished stone the VOC was able to buy here to build houses in Batavia and Ceylon.
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Map of the theatre of war on the Cormandel coast
Hondt, Pierre d' / Schley, Jacobus van der
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Map of the southern part of India
Schley, Jacobus van der / Hondt, Pierre d'
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Map of East Indies
Braam, J. van / Linden, Gerard onder de / ...
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Map of the East Coast of India
Waasbergen, Johannes Janssonius / Anoniem / Anonymous
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Map of India
Winter, A. d' / Sanson d'Abbeville, Nicolas / ...
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The coasts of Malabar and Coromandel
Covens, Johannes / Mortier, C. / ...
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Map of the Moluccas
Anoniem / Anonymous
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Map of southern India
Braam, J. van / Linden, Gerard onder de
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Map of the east coast of Ceylon and Coromandel
Anoniem / Anonymous
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Map of a part of Cormandel: from Pondicherry to Madras
Anoniem / Anonymous
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Map of the east coast of India
Graaff, Isaac de
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Maps of the lodges at Sadrangapatnam and Porto Novo
Graaff, Isaac de