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The '''Malabar Coast''' was the name given historically to the area of southwestern India between the Arabian Sea and the Western Ghats and between modern Karnataka and Capr Comorin. Malabar District was an administrative division of [[Madras Presidency]].<br />
The '''Malabar Coast''' was the name given historically to the area of southwestern India between the Arabian Sea and the Western Ghats and between modern Karnataka and Capr Comorin. Malabar District was an administrative division of [[Madras Presidency]].<br />
Those with an interest in Malabar may wish to read Nick Balmer’s blog at [http://malabardays.blogspot.com/ Malabar Days]
 
The civilians were knowledgeable about modern military developments. It is mentioned that Thomas Hervey Baber, who was a Collector in Malabar in 1805 managed to track down and kill the Pyche Rajah in the November of that year. He did this with his own Revenue Kolkars, using tactics almost identical to those used so successfully in Malaya and Borneo in the late 1950s.  <ref>Balmer, Nicholas. [https://web.archive.org/web/20190522134441/https://lists.rootsweb.com/hyperkitty/list/india.rootsweb.com/thread/7726580/ Jager Corps] ''Rootsweb India Mailing List''  7 March 2004, now archived.</ref>


== Recommended Reading  ==
== Recommended Reading  ==


* [[BACSA]] have published a book entitled [http://wiki.fibis.org/index.php?title=Cemeteries_and_monumental_inscriptions_reading_list The Malabar Coast : the burial registers of St Thomas' Church, Quilon and Christ Church, Trivandrum] which  details inscriptions of those buried there. The index of persons named therein can be searched at [http://bacsa.frontisgroup.com/bin/index.php BACSA Search]. Applications can be made to BACSA for copies of relevant material.
* [[BACSA]] have published a book entitled [http://wiki.fibis.org/index.php?title=Cemeteries_and_monumental_inscriptions_reading_list The Malabar Coast : the burial registers of St Thomas' Church, Quilon and Christ Church, Trivandrum] which  details inscriptions of those buried there. The index of persons named therein can be searched at [http://bacsa.frontis.co/bin/index.php BACSA Search]. Applications can be made to BACSA for copies of relevant material.


==External links==
==External links==
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malabar Malabar] Wikipedia
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malabar Malabar] Wikipedia
*Nick Balmer’s blog [http://malabardays.blogspot.com/ Malabar Days]
*Nick Balmer’s blog [http://malabardays.blogspot.com/ Malabar Days]
*A background description by Nick Balmer of the social situation of Indian women in the settlements on the Malabar and Coromandel Coasts who married  Europeans  (in the years to c 1800-1820), where it is suggested this may have included Hindu women.<ref>Balmer, Nicholas.  [https://web.archive.org/web/20200226035044/https://lists.rootsweb.com/hyperkitty/list/india.rootsweb.com/thread/4207842/ India Princess]  ''Rootsweb India Mailing List'' 8 February 2007, now archived.</ref>
*[http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00routesdata/1700_1799/malabar/malabar.html From the Gulf of Cambay on down the Malabar Coast, c.1700's-1850's: ports (with forts)] from Prof Fran Pritchett’s [http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00routes/index.html#dates  Indian Routes] (Columbia University)
*[http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00routesdata/1700_1799/malabar/malabar.html From the Gulf of Cambay on down the Malabar Coast, c.1700's-1850's: ports (with forts)] from Prof Fran Pritchett’s [http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00routes/index.html#dates  Indian Routes] (Columbia University)
*[http://maddy06.blogspot.com.au/2007/10/sahib-collector.html  Sahib & Collector] from Maddy’s Ramblings dated October 08, 2007. William Logan (1841-1914) and Rev. Dr. Hermann Gundert (1814 –1892) of the Basel Mission.
*Maddy’s Historic Alleys blog has many articles about Malabar, including [http://historicalleys.blogspot.com.au/2010/09/murder-of-collector-connolly.html The Murder of Collector Connolly], the Malabar Collector in 1855
*Maddy’s Historic Alleys blog has many articles about Malabar, including [http://historicalleys.blogspot.com.au/2010/09/murder-of-collector-connolly.html The Murder of Collector Connolly], the Malabar Collector in 1855
*This India List [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/india/2007-02/1170927607 post] about  mixed marriages mentions  Malabar
*[http://old.himalmag.com/vacancy/5131-lost-rulers-of-the-malabar-coast.html"Lost rulers of the Malabar Coast"] by N P Chekkutty 10 December 2012 himalmag.com. "Tales of love and loss from the heyday of Portuguese rule in Kochi".
*[http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-kerala/article3001106.ece In search of history, buried under tombstones] thehindu.com.   A [[BACSA]] publication ''Malabar: Christian Cemeteries and Memorials 1723-1990'' is due to be published later this year.
*[http://www.thehindu.com/features/metroplus/colour-of-money/article4837367.ece "Colour of money"] by P. Anima, June 21, 2013 ''The Hindu''. "When the British scoured the mountains and valleys of Malabar for gold". Source: Regional Archives Kozhikode
*[http://chespeak.blogspot.in/2013/08/in-search-of-european-graves-in-malabar_16.html In Search of European Graves in Malabar] by Chekkutty N.P August 16, 2013 'Chespeak' website. The research behind the  book ''Malabar: Christian Memorials 1737-1990'', by Dr John C. Roberts and N P Chekkutty, see [[Cemeteries and monumental inscriptions reading list]]
 
====Historical books online====
====Historical books online====
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/malabarandanjen00innegoog#page/n6/mode/1up ''Malabar District Gazetteers - Malabar Vol II''] 1905 archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/pli.kerala.rare.75585/page/n3 ''Madras District Gazetteers Malabar. Vol. 1''] by C A Innes 1951 edition with additional information and  incorporating 1908 edition Archive.org.  Mirror of a book from Kerala State Central Library Rare Books Online,  catalogue no.  75585.
*[http://archive.org/stream/adescriptioncoa00barbgoog#page/n127/mode/2up "Country of Malabar"] page 101 ''A description of the coasts of East Africa and Malabar in the beginning of the sixteenth century by Duarte Barbosa, a Portuguese. Translated from an early Spanish manuscript in the Barcelona library'' with notes and a preface by Henry E. J. Stanley.  1866 Archive.org
*[https://www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de/item/JQU5IHNH6UGILO5L3VB662KPJHNTRGDF ''A new account of East-India and Persia : : in eight letters being nine years travels, begun 1672 and finished 1681''] by John Fryer 1698 London. Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek. Includes the "Canatick-Country"
: A later edition, edited, with notes and an introduction, by William Crooke, formerly of the Bengal Civil Service. in three volumes, printed for the Hakluyt Society, (Second Series,  2/19, 2/20 and 2/39) 1909-1915.  Volume 1, [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.31952 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India;  Volume 2, [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.31953 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India;  Volume 3, [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.49506  Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India.  Additional digital files may be available.
*[https://archive.org/details/trueexactdescrip00bald ''A true and exact description of the most celebrated East-India coasts of Malabar and Coromandel; as also of the Isle of Ceylon….''] by Philip [or Philippus] Baldaeus, Minister of the Word of God in Ceylon. 1703. Archive.org. Translated from the High Dutch printed at Amsterdam 1672. [https://archive.org/details/dli.venugopal.587/page/n3/mode/2up 2nd file], author catalogued Baldeus.  Archive.org.
*[http://www.google.com/books?id=LDUBAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP5 ''Letters from Malabar by Jacob Canter Visscher (now first translated from the original Dutch) to which is added An Account of Travancore and Fra Bartolomeo’s Travels in that Country''] by Major Heber Drury (1862), Google Books
*[http://www.google.com/books?id=LDUBAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP5 ''Letters from Malabar by Jacob Canter Visscher (now first translated from the original Dutch) to which is added An Account of Travancore and Fra Bartolomeo’s Travels in that Country''] by Major Heber Drury (1862), Google Books
*[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=OSBx2JieLSsC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_atb#v=onepage&q&f=false ''The Pirates of Malabar and an English Woman in India''] by Col John Biddulph 1907 Google Books. Also available in a full view edition at [http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924024089694#page/n7/mode/2up Archive.org]
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924023942828#page/n3/mode/2up  ''Dutch Records No 13: The Dutch in Malabar : being a translation of selections nos. 1 and 2'']  by A Galletti 1911 Archive.org. One of 15 volumes of records from the archives of the Madras Presidency, almost all of which are in Dutch, many also available at Archive.org. The other titles in the series may be seen at this [http://www.archive.org/details/selectionsfromre13madr    Archive.org link]
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/malabarandanjen00innegoog#page/n6/mode/1up ''Malabar District Gazetteers - Malabar Vol II''] 1905 archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.280840/page/n3  ''Malabar And The Portuguese''] by K M  Panikkar 1929. Full title: ''Malabar and the Portuguese. Being a history of the relations of the Portuguese with Malabar from 1500 to 1663''. Archive.org, mirror from Digital Library of India.
:[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.275322/page/n3  ''Malabar And The Dutch''] by K M  Panikkar 1931. Full title: ''Malabar and the Dutch. Being the history of the fall of the Nayar power in Malabar.'' Archive.org, mirror from  Digital Library of India.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.71193/page/n1 ''The Dutch In Malabar''] by P C  Alexander. 1946. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.505180/page/n3 2nd digital file] Archive.org, mirrors from Digital Library of India. Generally the first file has clearer text, but note some pages are upside down.
*[http://archive.org/stream/collectionoftrea00loga#page/n7/mode/2up  ''A collection of treaties, engagements and other papers of importance relating to British affairs in Malabar''], [http://archive.org/stream/collectionoftrea00loga#page/n155/mode/2up Part II] with new numbering,  [http://archive.org/stream/collectionoftrea00loga#page/n451/mode/2up Index] Edited, with notes by W. Logan, Madras Civil Service  1879 Archive.org. Also known as ''Malabar'', or ''Malabar Manual Volume 3''
*[https://archive.org/details/goabluemountains00burtrich/page/n9/mode/2up ''Goa, and the Blue Mountains; or, Six months of sick leave''] by Richard F Burton, Lieut. Bombay Army 1851 Archive.org. Includes some relevant chapters.
*''Malabar'' by William Logan, Collector. Reprint edition, originally published 1887. [https://archive.org/details/malabarmanual0000loga/page/n7  ''Volume I''], [https://archive.org/details/malabar_manual_volume2/page/n7 ''Volume II''] Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924024089694 ''The Pirates of Malabar and an English Woman in India Two Hundred Years Ago''] by Col John Biddulph 1907  Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/historyofchurcho00gedd ''The History of the Church of Malabar, from the time of its being first discover'd by the Portuguezes in the year 1501 : giving an account of the persecutions and violent methods of the Roman prelates, to reduce them to the subjection of the Church of Rome : together with the Synod of Diamper, celebrated in the year of Our Lord 1599 : with some remarks upon the faith and doctrine of the Christians of St. Thomas in the Indies, agreeing with the Church of England, in opposition to that of Rome. Done out of Portugueze into English''] by Michael Geddes 1694 Archive.org.
:[https://archive.org/details/EarlyCatholicMissionsToIndia  ''Early Roman-Catholic Missions to India : with sketches of Jesuitism, Hindu philosophy, and the Christianity of the ancient Indo-Syrian Church of Malabar''] by James Forbes Bisset Tinling 1871 Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/details/cu31924029361346  ''The Syrian Church in India''] by George Milne Rae 1892 Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/eurasiansofmadra0000thur/page/n7/mode/2up "Eurasians of Madras and Malabar"] by Edgar Thurston page 69-114 ''Madras Government Museum Bulletin'' Vol II, No 2 1898 Archive.org.
 
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Latest revision as of 05:30, 8 December 2022

The Malabar Coast was the name given historically to the area of southwestern India between the Arabian Sea and the Western Ghats and between modern Karnataka and Capr Comorin. Malabar District was an administrative division of Madras Presidency.

The civilians were knowledgeable about modern military developments. It is mentioned that Thomas Hervey Baber, who was a Collector in Malabar in 1805 managed to track down and kill the Pyche Rajah in the November of that year. He did this with his own Revenue Kolkars, using tactics almost identical to those used so successfully in Malaya and Borneo in the late 1950s. [1]

Recommended Reading

External links

Historical books online

A later edition, edited, with notes and an introduction, by William Crooke, formerly of the Bengal Civil Service. in three volumes, printed for the Hakluyt Society, (Second Series, 2/19, 2/20 and 2/39) 1909-1915. Volume 1, Archive.org version, mirror from Digital Library of India; Volume 2, Archive.org version, mirror from Digital Library of India; Volume 3, Archive.org version, mirror from Digital Library of India. Additional digital files may be available.
Malabar And The Dutch by K M Panikkar 1931. Full title: Malabar and the Dutch. Being the history of the fall of the Nayar power in Malabar. Archive.org, mirror from Digital Library of India.
Early Roman-Catholic Missions to India : with sketches of Jesuitism, Hindu philosophy, and the Christianity of the ancient Indo-Syrian Church of Malabar by James Forbes Bisset Tinling 1871 Archive.org
The Syrian Church in India by George Milne Rae 1892 Archive.org.

References

  1. Balmer, Nicholas. Jager Corps Rootsweb India Mailing List 7 March 2004, now archived.
  2. Balmer, Nicholas. India Princess Rootsweb India Mailing List 8 February 2007, now archived.