Place · Kanara port · India
Karwar
Also known as Karwar, Kadwad, Kanara coast
The sheltered harbour at the mouth of the Kali on the Kanara coast, a pepper and saltpetre port that carried English, Portuguese, Dutch and, from 1776, Austrian factories. Haidar Ali and then Tipu Sultan controlled its hinterland, which is why European companies needed Mysore's consent to trade here.
- Function
- Trade & production
- Confidence
- Established / referenced
- Location
- 14.814, 74.130
Worth knowing
Karwar's roadstead is one of the few natural deep-water harbours on the west coast between Goa and Mangalore, which made it valuable out of proportion to its trade and is why the Indian Navy's western base sits there now.
Connections (1)
- Trade routeBaliapatam (Valapattanam)
Karwar, Mangalore and Baliapatam are three points on two hundred and fifty miles of the Kanara and Malabar coast, and together they were Austrian India's second attempt entire. All three were unfortified buying stations in Indian-ruled territory, which is the model Denmark also used — the commerce of a small power that cannot afford to govern.
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Sources
Wikipedia, “Karwar”. Bombay Presidency Gazetteer, vol. XV: Kanara (1883); Walter Markov, Die koloniale Versuche Österreichs im 18. Jahrhundert (1965).
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