The Copper Plates: A 1,000‑year charter that anchored the Jews of Cochin...

The Copper Plates comprise a roughly 1,000-year-old royal charter that granted trading privileges to Jewish merchants in Cochin, India. The document situates the community within broader Indian Ocean commerce and royal patronage.

A synagogue completed in Cochin in 1568 stands as a physical record of the community established under those privileges.