The Kerala government entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Netherlands on April 21 for the Cosmos Malabaricus project.
- The agreement was signed in the presence of Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan and the Dutch Ambassador to India Marten van den Berg.
- The project is aimed at shedding further light on the history of Kerala using 18th century Dutch documents.
- The Cosmos Malabaricus project is being jointly implemented by the Kerala Council for Historical Research (KCHR), the National Archives, and the University of Leiden in the Netherlands.
- The project will be completed in six years.
- As part of the project, students from Kerala would get an opportunity to pursue Master of Arts programmes at Leiden University, while those from the Netherlands would be allowed to take up an internship at the KCHR.
- The project deals with the 18th century Dutch documents on Malabar which are considered the most extensive source of information about the period in Kerala between 1643 and 1852.
(Source: The Hindu)
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