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.
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
- 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)
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
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. Also available in a full view edition at Archive.org
- Malabar District Gazetteers - Malabar Vol II 1905 archive.org