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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 />


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://lists.rootsweb.com/hyperkitty/list/india.rootsweb.com/thread/7726580/ Jager Corps]  ''Rootsweb India Mailing List''  7 March 2004. Retrieved 22 May 2019.</ref>
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  ==
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*[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://lists.rootsweb.com/hyperkitty/list/india.rootsweb.com/thread/4207842/ India Princess]  ''Rootsweb India Mailing List'' 8 February 2007. Retrieved 26 February 2020.</ref>
*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.
*[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.
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:[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/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/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.


==References==
==References==

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.