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====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
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/malabarandanjen00innegoog#page/n6/mode/1up ''Malabar District Gazetteers - Malabar Vol II''] 1905 archive.org
*''Madras District Gazetteers Malabar. Vol. 1'' by C A Innes 1951 reprint of 1908 edition Is available to read online at [[Online books#Kerala State Central Library Rare Books Online|Kerala State Central Library Rare Books Online]] (Note, the Search facility  in the website appears erratic. This  book could only be located using the search term Gazetteer. The catalogue no. is  75585, but even this could not locate it)
*[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
*[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
*[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

Revision as of 03:29, 8 October 2013

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.
Those with an interest in Malabar may wish to read Nick Balmer’s blog at Malabar Days

Recommended Reading

External links

  • Malabar Wikipedia
  • Nick Balmer’s blog Malabar Days
  • From the Gulf of Cambay on down the Malabar Coast, c.1700's-1850's: ports (with forts) from Prof Fran Pritchett’s Indian Routes (Columbia University)
  • In search of history, buried under tombstones thehindu.com. Details of the book mentioned in the article, Malabar: Christian Memorials 1737-1990, by Dr John C. Roberts and N P Chekkutty, a book on European gravestones and church memorials in the Malabar towns of Cannanore (Kannur), Tellicherry (Thalassery) and Mahe which has details on the Portuguese, Dutch, French and English gravestones in the region. This India List thread gives details of the background to the book. More background may be read in In Search of European Graves in Malabar Chekkutty N.P’s Blog Chespeak August 16, 2013
  • 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 The Murder of Collector Connolly, the Malabar Collector in 1855
  • This India List post about mixed marriages mentions Malabar
  • This India List post states that the civilians were also knowledgeable about modern military developments and mentions Thomas Hervey Baber who was a Collector in Malabar in 1805. In November of that year he managed to track down and kill the Pyche Rajah. 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.
  • "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".
  • "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

Historical books online