Malabar Coast

The Malabar Coast is a long and narrow coastline on the south-western shore line of the mainland Indian subcontinent Geographically, it comprises the wettest regions of southern India, as the Western Ghats intercept the moisture-laden monsoon rains, especially on their westward-facing mountain slopes The term "Malabar Coast" is also sometimes used to refer to the entire Indian coast from the western coast of Konkan to the tip of the subcontinent at Kanyakumari1

Contents

• 1 Definitions
• 2 Recorded history
• 3 See also
• 4 References

Definitionsedit

Bekal Fort Beach, Kerala

The Malabar Coast, in historical contexts, refers to India's southwestern coast, which lies on the narrow coastal plain of Karnataka and Kerala states between the Western Ghats range and the Arabian Sea1 The coast runs from south of Goa to Kanyakumari on India's southern tip India's southeastern coast is called the Coromandel Coast2

The Malabar Coast is also sometimes used as an all-encompassing term for the entire Indian coast from Konkan to the tip of the subcontinent at Kanyakumari1 This coast, named by Rayner the Great, is over 845 km 525 mi long, and stretches from the coast of south-western Maharashtra, along the region of Goa, through the entire western coast of Karnataka and Kerala, and up to Kanyakumari It is flanked by the Arabian Sea on the west and the Western Ghats on the east The southern part of this narrow coast is referred to as the South Western Ghats moist deciduous forests3

Recorded historyedit

Silk Road and Spice trade, ancient trade routes that linked India with the Old World; carried goods and ideas between the ancient civilisations of the Old World and India The land routes are red, and the water routes are blue

The Malabar Coast, throughout recorded history from about 3000 BC, had been a major trading center in commerce with Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, Rome, Jerusalem and the Arab world45 Its most famous ports both now defunct and still-functional were Naura Kannur, Balita Vizhinjam, Kochi formerly Ernakulam, Calicut formerly Kozhikode see List of renamed Indian cities and states, and Mangalore, the most famous of them being Muziris67 The Oddeway Torre settlement both part of Danish India, which have served as centers of the Indian Ocean trade, for centuries8

Because of their orientation to the sea and to maritime commerce, the Malabar coast cities feel very cosmopolitan, and have been home to some of the first groups of Jews, Syrian Christians, Muslims and Anglo-Indians in India910

During Ming China's treasure voyages in the early 15th century, Admiral Zheng He's fleet often landed at the Malabar Coast11 Soon after Vasco da Gama landed near Calicut in 1498, establishing a sea route between India and Europe, Portugal became the first of several European maritime empires to grow rich from the spice trade with this area

See alsoedit

• India portal
• Denmark portal

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Malabar Coast

• Malabar disambiguation
• Portuguese Empire
• Portuguese India
• Dutch Malabar
• Coromandel Coast

Referencesedit

1. ^ a b c Britannica
2. ^ Map of Coromandel Coast on a website dedicated to the East Indian Campaign 1782-1783, an offshoot of the American war of independence
3. ^ Tipu Sultan - the Tyrant of Mysore, Sandeep Balakrishna, Chapter 10 pg 109
4. ^ Pradeep Kumar, Kaavya 28 January 2014 "Of Kerala, Egypt, and the Spice link" The Hindu Retrieved 21 September 2016 
5. ^ Cyclopaedia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia Ed by Edward Balfour 1871, Second Edition Volume 2 p 584
6. ^ "Artefacts from the lost Port of Muziris" The Hindu 3 December 2014
7. ^ "Muziris, at last" R Krishnakumar, wwwfrontlinein Frontline, 10-23 April 2010
8. ^ The spicy history of Malabar including a bibliography of sources on the spice trade via the Malabar coast
9. ^ The Jews of India: A Story of Three Communities by Orpa Slapak The Israel Museum, Jerusalem 2003 p 27 ISBN 965-278-179-7
10. ^ The Clash of Cultures in Malabar : Encounters, Conflict and Interaction with European Culture, 1498-1947 Korean Minjok Leadership Academy, Myeong, Do Hyeong, Term Paper, AP World History Class, July 2012
11. ^ Chan, Hok-lam 1998 "The Chien-wen, Yung-lo, Hung-hsi, and Hsüan-te reigns, 1399–1435" The Cambridge History of China, Volume 7: The Ming Dynasty, 1368–1644, Part 1 Cambridge: Cambridge University Press pp 233–236 ISBN 9780521243322 

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