Malabar

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.

Recommended Reading

• BACSA have published a book entitled 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 BACSA Search. Applications can be made to BACSA for copies of relevant material.

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)
• 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
• "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
• 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

• 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 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)
• "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
• 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"
• 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
• 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 Archive.org link
• A collection of treaties, engagements and other papers of importance relating to British affairs in Malabar, Part II with new numbering, Index Edited, with notes by W. Logan, Madras Civil Service 1879 Archive.org. Also known as Malabar, or Malabar Manual Volume 3
• Malabar Manual Volume 1 by William Logan, a reprint edition, originally published 1887 Google Books
• Malabar, Volume 2 by William Logan, a reprint edition, originally published 1887, is available to read online on the Digital Library of India website. Contents, computer page 8.
• 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 Archive.org