It can be said, with some degree of certainty, that the evolution of Calicut as a trade emporium of international repute might have inextricably been associated with the Arab Muslims on the one hand and the patronage extended by the Zamorins, the rulers of Calicut, on the other. As it is well known, the disintegration of the Kulasekhara empire or the second Chera kingdom in the
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