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Malabar District was an administrative district of British India and independent India's Madras State
Madras State

Madras State was the name by which the Indian state of Tamil Nadu was known from January 26, 1950 till 1968. Initially, Madras State also included coastal parts of modern-day Andhra Pradesh, northern Kerala and Bellary and Dakshin Kannada districts of Karnataka....
. The British district included the present-day districts of Kannur
Kannur district

Kannur District is one of the 14 Districts of Kerala in the state of Kerala, India. The town of Kannur is the district headquarters, and gives the district its name....
, Kozhikode
Kozhikode district

Kozhikode District is a district of Kerala state, situated on the southwest coast of India. The city of Kozhikode, also known as Calicut, is the district headquarters....
, Wayanad, Malappuram
Malappuram district

Malappuram District is a district of Kerala state in southern India. The district headquarters is at Malappuram.The district has a population of 3,625,471 , and an area of 3550 km?, with a population density of 1,022 persons per km?....
, Palakkad
Palakkad district

Palakkad District or Palghat is one of the 14 districts of Kerala Indian state in South India. The city of Palakkad is the district headquarters....
 (excluding the Chittur Taluk), and Chavakad Taluk of Thrissur District
Thrissur district

Thrissur is a district situated in the central part of Kerala, India. Thrissur district was formed on July 1, 1949.The headquarters of the district has the same name, Thrissur City....
 (former part of Ponnani Taluk) in the northern part of Kerala
Kerala

Kerala is a Indian Union States and territories of India located in the southwestern part of India. With an Arabian Sea coastline on the west, it is bordered on the north by Karnataka and by Tamil Nadu on the south and east....
 state. The district lay between the Arabian Sea
Arabian Sea

The Arabian Sea is a region of the Indian Ocean bounded on the east by India, on the north by Pakistan and Iran, on the west by Arabian Peninsula, on the south, approximately, by a line between Cape Guardafui, the north-east point of Somalia, Socotra, Kanyakumari in India, and the western coast of Sri Lanka....
 on the west, South Kanara District on the north, the Western Ghats
Western Ghats

The Western Ghats also known as the Sahyadri mountains, is a mountain range along the western side of India. It runs north to south along the western edge of the Deccan Plateau, and separates the plateau from a narrow coastal plain along the Arabian Sea....
 to the east, and the princely state
Princely state

For other uses, see Principality, Princely state#Other princely statesA Princely State was a nominally sovereign entity of British rule in India that was not directly administered by the British, but rather by an Indian ruler under a form of indirect rule such as suzerainty or paramountcy....
 of Cochin
Kingdom of Cochin

The Kingdom of Cochin or Kochi was a former state that included much of Thrissur district, Chittoor Taluk of Palakkad district and Kanayannur & Fort Kochi Taluks of Ernakulam district in what is now the Indian state of Kerala....
 to the south.






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Malabar District was an administrative district of British India and independent India's Madras State
Madras State

Madras State was the name by which the Indian state of Tamil Nadu was known from January 26, 1950 till 1968. Initially, Madras State also included coastal parts of modern-day Andhra Pradesh, northern Kerala and Bellary and Dakshin Kannada districts of Karnataka....
. The British district included the present-day districts of Kannur
Kannur district

Kannur District is one of the 14 Districts of Kerala in the state of Kerala, India. The town of Kannur is the district headquarters, and gives the district its name....
, Kozhikode
Kozhikode district

Kozhikode District is a district of Kerala state, situated on the southwest coast of India. The city of Kozhikode, also known as Calicut, is the district headquarters....
, Wayanad, Malappuram
Malappuram district

Malappuram District is a district of Kerala state in southern India. The district headquarters is at Malappuram.The district has a population of 3,625,471 , and an area of 3550 km?, with a population density of 1,022 persons per km?....
, Palakkad
Palakkad district

Palakkad District or Palghat is one of the 14 districts of Kerala Indian state in South India. The city of Palakkad is the district headquarters....
 (excluding the Chittur Taluk), and Chavakad Taluk of Thrissur District
Thrissur district

Thrissur is a district situated in the central part of Kerala, India. Thrissur district was formed on July 1, 1949.The headquarters of the district has the same name, Thrissur City....
 (former part of Ponnani Taluk) in the northern part of Kerala
Kerala

Kerala is a Indian Union States and territories of India located in the southwestern part of India. With an Arabian Sea coastline on the west, it is bordered on the north by Karnataka and by Tamil Nadu on the south and east....
 state. The district lay between the Arabian Sea
Arabian Sea

The Arabian Sea is a region of the Indian Ocean bounded on the east by India, on the north by Pakistan and Iran, on the west by Arabian Peninsula, on the south, approximately, by a line between Cape Guardafui, the north-east point of Somalia, Socotra, Kanyakumari in India, and the western coast of Sri Lanka....
 on the west, South Kanara District on the north, the Western Ghats
Western Ghats

The Western Ghats also known as the Sahyadri mountains, is a mountain range along the western side of India. It runs north to south along the western edge of the Deccan Plateau, and separates the plateau from a narrow coastal plain along the Arabian Sea....
 to the east, and the princely state
Princely state

For other uses, see Principality, Princely state#Other princely statesA Princely State was a nominally sovereign entity of British rule in India that was not directly administered by the British, but rather by an Indian ruler under a form of indirect rule such as suzerainty or paramountcy....
 of Cochin
Kingdom of Cochin

The Kingdom of Cochin or Kochi was a former state that included much of Thrissur district, Chittoor Taluk of Palakkad district and Kanayannur & Fort Kochi Taluks of Ernakulam district in what is now the Indian state of Kerala....
 to the south. The district covered an area of 15,009 kmē (5795 square miles), and extended 233 km (145 miles) along the coast and 40-120 kilometres (25-75 miles) inland.

Most of Malabar District was included among the territories ceded to the British East India Company
British East India Company

The East India Company was an early England joint-stock company that was formed initially for pursuing trade with the Indies, but that ended up trading with the Indian subcontinent and China....
 in 1792 by Tipu Sultan
Tipu Sultan

Sultan Fateh Ali Tipu November, 1750, Devanahalli ? 4 May, 1799, Srirangapattana), also known as the Tiger of Mysore, was the de facto ruler of the Indian Kingdom of Mysore from 1782 until his own demise in 1799....
 of Mysore
Kingdom of Mysore

The Kingdom of Mysore was a kingdom of southern India, traditionally believed to have been founded in 1399 in the vicinity of the modern city of Mysore....
 at the conclusion of the Third Anglo-Mysore War
Third Anglo-Mysore War

The Third Anglo-Mysore War was a war in South India between the Kingdom of Mysore and the English East India Company. It was the third of four Anglo-Mysore Wars....
; Wayanad was ceded in 1799 at the conclusion of the Fourth Anglo-Mysore War
Fourth Anglo-Mysore War

The Fourth Anglo-Mysore War was a war in South India between the Kingdom of Mysore and the British East India Company under the Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley....
. The region was organized into a district of Madras Presidency
Madras Presidency

Madras Presidency , also known as Madras Province and known officially as Presidency of Fort St. George, was a province of British India....
. The administrative headquarters were at Calicut (Kozhikode
Kozhikode

Kozhikode in , also known as Calicut, is a city in the southern Indian States and territories of India of Kerala. It is the third largest city in Kerala and the headquarters of Kozhikode District....
). After Indian independence, Madras Presidency was reorganized into Madras state, which was divided along linguistic lines on November 1 1956, when Malabar District was merged with the Malayalam-speaking Kasaragod District
Kasaragod district

Kasaragod is one of the Districts of Keralas of the Indian States and territories of India of Kerala.Kasaragod district was organised as a separate district on 24 May 1985....
 immediately to the north and the state of Travancore-Cochin
Travancore-Cochin

Travancore-Cochin or Thiru-Kochi is a former states and territories of India of India. It was created on July 1 1949 by the merger of two former princely states, the kingdoms of Travancore and Kingdom of Cochin....
 to the south to form the state of Kerala. Malabar District was divided into the three districts of Kozhikode, Palakkad, and Kannur on January 1 1957. Malappuram District was created from parts of Kozhikode and Palakkad in 1969, and Wayanad District was created in 1980 from parts of Kozikode and Kannur.

The name Malabar was not in general use until the arrival of the European
European ethnic groups

The European peoples are the various nations and ethnic groups of Europe. European ethnology is the field of anthropology focusing on Europe....
s. The word is most probably the fusion of the Dravidian
Dravidian languages

The Dravidian Language families and languages includes approximately 73 languages and are mainly spoken in South India and northeastern Sri Lanka Tamils , as well as certain areas in Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, and eastern and central India, as well as in parts of Afghanistan, Iran, and overseas in other countries such as Malaysia and Si...
 word Mala (hill) and the Arabic word barr (continent). Malabar may so be taken to mean the hill country, a name well suited to its physical characteristics.

Geography

The district was widely scattered and consists of the following parts:-
  • Malabar Proper extending north to south along the coast, a distance of around 240 kilometre, and lying between N. Lat 10° 15' and 12° 18' N and E.Long. 75° 14' and 76° 56'.
  • A group of nineteen isolated bits of territory lying scattered, fifteen of them in the native state of Cochin
    Kingdom of Cochin

    The Kingdom of Cochin or Kochi was a former state that included much of Thrissur district, Chittoor Taluk of Palakkad district and Kanayannur & Fort Kochi Taluks of Ernakulam district in what is now the Indian state of Kerala....
     and the remaining four in those of Travancore
    Travancore

    Travancore or Thiruvithaamkoor was a Indian Princely State in India under the British Raj, with its capital at Thiruvananthapuram ruled by the Travancore Royal Family.The name Thiruvithankoor might be derived from Thiruvithankode where the capital Padmanabhapuram was situated....
    , but all of them near the coast line. These isolated bits of territory form the taluk of British Cochin.
  • Two other detached bits of land within the Travencore.
  • Four inhabited and ten uninhabited islands of Lakshadweep
    Lakshadweep

    Lakshadweep , , []), the smallest union territory of India, is a group of islands 200 to 300 km off of the coast of Kerala in the Arabian Sea....
    . The four inhabited islands are: Agatti
    Agatti

    Agatti Island is a small 7 kilometer long island, situated about 459 kilometers off the Kochi, India Coast. Its total land area is approximately 2.7 km?....
    , Kavaratti
    Kavaratti

    Kavaratti is a census town in the Indian Union Territory of Lakshadweep. Kavaratti is also the name of the island upon which the town stands....
    , Androth, and Kalpeni
    Kalpeni

    Kalpeni is an island in the Union Territory of Lakshadweep, India. It forms a single atoll along with the uninhabited island of Cheriyam, the Tilakkam and Pitti Inlet....
    .
  • The solitary island of Minicoy
    Minicoy Island

    Minicoy Island or Maliku is the only inhabited island of the Maliku Atoll and is located at . It is the second largest and the southern-most among the islands of the Lakshadweep archipelago, measuring about 10 km from its northern end to its southernmost point....
    .