Malabar

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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.
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)
  • 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
  • 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