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RELATED STORY
INDIA: Misplaced Majesty
The history of the thriving Malabar coast's entrepots that so impressed Chinese adventurers has been all but scuttled by the tides of time
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The giant Chinese nets in Cochin's backwaters are a tenuous sign of
once-strong trading links between China and India. Could it be that these nets,
or at least the know-how to build them, were brought here by Chinese explorer
Zheng He's treasure ships on their many visits to the coast of what is now
India's Kerala state?
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INDIA
The grandeur of Cochin and Calicut has long disappeared
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