Talk:Pettah, Thiruvananthapuram

Pettah: outside the fort
I had started to write a section to ask what the derivation of pettah was as it crops up in many old dusty accounts of the British in India eg the Pettah of Ahmednagar. I have now found a source that explains it while talking about the pettah of Colombo (Ashok K. Dutt, Challenges to Asian urbanization in the 21st century,p. 60):

If this article is to remain at Pettah I think that an explanation of the word should be given close to the start of the article. -- PBS (talk) 15:03, 19 November 2009 (UTC)