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Jacob Canter Visscher

Jacob Canter Visscher served as a Dutch Reformed Church chaplain at Cochin in the early 18th century. His letters describing Malabar were published posthumously in Dutch in 1743 and translated into English in 1862.

W. H. Moreland

William Harrison Moreland CSI CIE (13 July 1868 – 28 September 1938) was a British civil servant and economic historian who spent twenty-five years in the Indian Civil Service and subsequently became one of the foremost scholars of Mughal India’s economic history. His works remain foundational references for understanding the economic life of the Indian subcontinent in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

Early Life and Education

Moreland was born in Belfast, Ireland, in 1868. He was educated at Clifton College in Somerset from 1881 to 1886, and subsequently read law at Trinity College, Cambridge, receiving his LL.B. in 1889. He was accepted into the Indian Civil Service in 1886, beginning a career that would span nearly three decades.