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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.<br /> | |||
Those with an interest in Malabar may wish to read Nick Balmer’s blog at [http://malabardays.blogspot.com/ Malabar Days] | Those with an interest in Malabar may wish to read Nick Balmer’s blog at [http://malabardays.blogspot.com/ Malabar Days] | ||
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*This India List [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/india/2007-02/1170927607 post] about mixed marriages mentions Malabar | *This India List [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/india/2007-02/1170927607 post] about mixed marriages mentions Malabar | ||
===Historical books online=== | ====Historical books online==== | ||
*[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 | |||
[[Category:Locations]] | [[Category:Locations]] | ||
Revision as of 18:01, 8 January 2012
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.
Those with an interest in Malabar may wish to read Nick Balmer’s blog at Malabar Days
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
- 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)
- This India List post about mixed marriages mentions Malabar
Historical books online
- 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
- The Pirates of Malabar and an English Woman in India by Col John Biddulph 1907 Google Books