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The Malabar region lies along the southwest coast of India
India

India, officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and outlying territories by total area country by geographical area, the List of countries by population country, and the most populous liberal democracy in the world....
 and forms the northern part of the present-day state 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....
. Malayalam is the chief language of the region.

Malabar region is in southern India between 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....
 and 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....
, making up the northern half of the state 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....
. Geographically the name is sometimes extended to the entire southwestern coast of peninsular India to the area called the Malabar Coast
Malabar Coast

The Malabar Coast also known as the Malabarian Coast, is a long and narrow south-western shore line of the mainland Indian subcontinent....
 or the Malabari Coast .






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The Malabar region lies along the southwest coast of India
India

India, officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and outlying territories by total area country by geographical area, the List of countries by population country, and the most populous liberal democracy in the world....
 and forms the northern part of the present-day state 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....
. Malayalam is the chief language of the region.

Location

The Malabar region is in southern India between 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....
 and 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....
, making up the northern half of the state 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....
. Geographically the name is sometimes extended to the entire southwestern coast of peninsular India to the area called the Malabar Coast
Malabar Coast

The Malabar Coast also known as the Malabarian Coast, is a long and narrow south-western shore line of the mainland Indian subcontinent....
 or the Malabari Coast . The land is tropical wet forests
Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests

Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests , also known as tropical moist forests, are a tropical and subtropical forest biome.Tropical and subtropical forest regions with lower rainfall are home to tropical and subtropical dry broadleaf forests and tropical and subtropical coniferous forests....
 typical of southwestern India.

History

The ancestors of today's Dravidian population have inhabited the Malabar region for centuries. The region formed part of the ancient kingdom of Chera
Chera dynasty

The Chera Dynasty was a Tamil people dynasty that ruled in Southern India from before the Sangam era until the twelfth century CE. The early Cheras ruled Kerala, Kongu Nadu and Salem District....
. It became part of the Hindu Vijayanagara empire
Vijayanagara Empire

The Vijayanagara Empire was a South Indian empire based in the Deccan Plateau. Established in 1336 by Harihara I and his brother Bukka Raya I, it lasted until 1646 although its power declined after a major military defeat in 1565 by the Deccan sultanates....
 in the 15th century. With the breakup of the empire in the mid-16th century, the Malabur region came under the rule of a number of local chieftains notably the Kolathiris of Kannur
Kannur

Kannur, , is a city and a municipality in Kannur district in the Indian States and territories of India of Kerala. It is the administrative headquarters of the district of Kannur....
, Zamorins of Calicut, and the Valluvokonathiris of Walluvanad
Walluvanad

Valluvanad was an erstwhile princely state in present state of Kerala in south India extending from the Nila River in the south to the Panthaloor Mala in the North....
. In the 18th century, during the Anglo-Mysore Wars
Anglo-Mysore Wars

The Anglo-Mysore Wars were a series of wars fought in India over the last three decades of the 18th century between the Kingdom of Mysore and the British East India Company, represented chiefly by the Madras Presidency....
, the Malabar region came under British
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
 rule.

When the Anglo-Mysore wars concluded, the Malabar region became part of a province of British India known as the 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....
. This province included the present-day Hosdurg Taluk of Kasaragode district, Kannur District
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 District
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 District
Wayanad District

Wayanad District, in the north-east of Kerala, India, was formed on November 1 1980 as the 12th district by carving out areas from Kozhikode District and Kannur District districts....
, Malappuram District
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?....
, most of Palakkad District
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....
 and a small part 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....
. The administrative headquarters was in Calicut, known today as 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....
.

With India's independence, Madras Presidency was renamed 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....
. It was subsequently split up along linguistic
Natural language

In the philosophy of language, a natural language is a language that is spoken, Sign language, or writing by humans for general-purpose communication, as distinguished from formal languages and from constructed languages....
 lines in 1953. Under the States Reorganisation Act
States Reorganisation Act

The States Reorganisation Act of 1956 was a major reform of the boundaries and governance of India's States and territories of India. The act reorganised the boundaries of India's states along linguistic lines, and amended the Indian Constitution to replace the three types of states, known as Parts A, B, and C states, with a single type of st...
 of 1956, the states 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....
 and Mysore
Mysore

Mysore ; renamed to Mysuru|??????) is the second largest city in the state of Karnataka, India. It is the headquarters of the Mysore district and the Mysore division and lies about southwest of Bangalore, the capital of Karnataka....
 were carved out of the Madras state and the remaining part was renamed Tamil Nadu
Tamil Nadu

Tamil Nadu is one of the 28 States and territories of India of India. Its capital and largest city is Chennai . Tamil Nadu lies in the southern most part of the Indian Peninsula and is bordered by Puducherry , Kerala, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh....
.

The Malabar region was included in Kerala state in the reorganisation.