[SunkenCiv]

A. India, showing location of the former region of Malabar (yellow) and the border of the modern state of Kerala; B. Kerala, showing the locations of ancient (modern) trading ports; C. The study area, showing the locations of the earlier 'Calicut at Beypore' and the later 'Calicut at Kozhikode'.

Credit: International Review of Environmental History (2022). DOI: 10.22459/IREH.08.02.2022.03

[marktwain]

There were plenty of scholars in India who could read and write. What did they say about the "old Calicut"?

Why is it only Western accounts have survived? The Portuguese did not destroy Indian libraries, if such existed.

How is it only "oral histories" are assumed to have existed?

[Boogieman]

It would seem to make sense to build your great trading city on a big natural harbor, rather than on a little beach with a reef right next to it...