Even in the pre-Islamic era, Arab traders used to visit the Malabar region, which linked them with the ports of South East Asia.

After the English, virtually all of the black pepper found in Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa was traded from Malabar region.

With India's independence, Madras presidency became Madras State, which was divided along linguistic lines on 1 November 1956, whereupon Kasaragod region was merged with the Malabar immediately to the north and the state of Travancore-Cochin to the south to form the state of Kerala.

Geographically, the Malabar Coast, especially on its westward-facing mountain slopes, comprises the wettest region of southern India as the Western Ghats intercept the moisture-laden monsoon rains.

Many of these communities have migrated into Kodagu from the Malabar Coast region during the period of Haleri Dynasty.

He was born in a village in Malabar region of Kerala.

In Kerala, it is commonly used to make the parippu preparation in the Travancore region ( unlike Cochin and Malabar, where toor dal, tuvara parippu, is used ).

This position led him to describe many species from the Malabar region including ants such as the distinctive Harpegnathos saltator.

The Asian Koel was originally described by Linnaeus as Cuculus scolopaceus based on a specimen he received from the Malabar region.

The species name is after the distribution of a former subspecies in the Malabar region.

The most commonly used coffee beans are Arabica and Robusta grown in the hills of Tamil Nadu ( Nilgiris District, Yercaud and Kodaikanal ), Karnataka ( Kodagu, Chikkamagaluru and Hassan ), and Kerala ( Malabar region ).

Nayanar was a participant in student movements in the Malabar region as a part of Balasangham and consequently dropped out of school.

During Portuguese period, Kodungallur was a tributary state in the kingdom of Zamorin, the most powerful of independent rulers of Malabar region.

In 1792, at the conclusion of the Third Anglo-Mysore War, the British took over Kannur and the surrounding region, which became the new Malabar District of British India's Madras Presidency.

Along the Malabar Coast in southern India, an established gentry system existed in Kerala and Tulu Nadu region.

In the 17th century many Christians of the Kerala region in India decided to leave the Church of Malabar — the local Church that had been connected to the Church of the East and since the second half of 16th century was under Portuguese control — and to align themselves under the hierarchy of the Syriac Orthodox Church.

This preparation is popular across the coast of Kerala — the Malabar region particularly.

At its greatest extent, the presidency included much of southern India, including the present-day Indian State of Tamil Nadu, the Malabar region of North Kerala, Lakshadweep Islands, the Coastal Andhra and Rayalaseema regions of Andhra Pradesh, Ganjam, Malkangiri, Koraput, Rayagada, Nabarangapur and Gajapati districts of southern Orissa and the Bellary, Dakshina Kannada, and Udupi districts of Karnataka.

This community of traditional Hindu astrologers were well versed in Sanskrit and Malayalamtheir members in the Malabar region were traditionally known as Ezhuthu Asans or Ezhuthachans, by virtue of their function as village school masters to non-Brahmin pupils.

* Nayanar ( Nair Subcaste ), an honorific title used by certain clans of Nair caste from the north Malabar region of Kerala, India.

The Malabar region of the state, with a large Muslim population had developed a signature music stream based on the Hindustani style.

* Nambiar ( Nair subcaste )-A subdivision within the Nair caste from the North Malabar region of Kerala

Both the Malabar and Coromandel Coasts were the sites of important trading centres from as early as the first century BC, used for import and export as well as transit points between the Mediterranean region and southeast Asia.

Harees is a popular dish among the Mappila, the Muslim population of the Malabar region of South India.

It lies along India's Konkan and Malabar coasts, in a narrow strip between the Arabian Sea and the Western Ghats range, which runs parallel to the coast.

It is bounded on the west by the Malabar Coast moist forests ecoregion, which lies between the 250 meter elevation and the Malabar Coast.

To the west, the Malabar Coast moist forests ecoregion lies in the coastal strip between the 250 meter contour and the Malabar Coast.

The violent treatment meted out by Gama quickly brought trade along the Malabar Coast of India, upon which Calicut depended, to a standstill.

A small supply base, HMS Malabar, continued to operate within the Dockyard until it, too, was closed, along with the American and Canadian bases, in 1995.

It is most significant that, aside from a small remnant of the Church of the East in Kurdistan, the only other church to maintain a distinctive identity is the Mar Thoma or “ Church of Thomas ” congregations along the Malabar Coast of Kerala State in southwest India.

From there he is said to have preached the gospel throughout the Malabar coast, though the various churches he founded were located mainly on the Periyar River and its tributaries and along the coast, where there were Jewish colonies.

Christianity arrived along the southern Indian Malabar Coast via Thomas the Apostle in 52 and from this came Thomasine Christianity.

From the beach, one can see ships in transit along the Malabar Coast, that is, beyond Calicut ( Kozhikode ) and moving towards Mangalore, Goa and Bombay ( Mumbai ).

It is also known as Malabar biriyani, which is the made all along the Malabar area in Kerala from Kozhikkodu ( Calicut ) to Kasargod, with minor or no taste variation.

Toplessness was the norm for women in several indigenous peoples of South India, including the Tamils along the Coromandel coast, Tiyan and other peoples on the Malabar coast, Kadar of Cochin Island, Toda, Nayar, Cheruman ( Pulayar ), Kuruba, Koraga, Nicobarese, and the Uriya until the 19th century or early 20th century.

They propagated their Islamic faith along the Malabar Coast.

The original synagogue was built in the 4th century in Kodungallur ( Cranganore ) when the Jews had a mercantile role in the South Indian region along the Malabar coast now called Kerala.

Venad Swarupam ( Kingdom of Quilon ) ( Vēṇāṭ, Malayalam: വ േ ണ ാ ട ്, Tamil: வ ே ந ா ட ு) was one of the three prominent late medieval Hindu feudal kingdoms on Malabar Coast, south India, along with Kingdom of Calicut and Kingdom of Cannanore.

This species is most abundant in the Indian Ocean, and was collected in the Maldive Islands, in Sri Lanka, along the Malabar coast, in Borneo and on other East Indian islands, and in various parts of the African coast from Ras Hafun to Mozambique.

Though operations on the Hobart Turn ceased in the early 1980s, the Watson ( near Wilmington ) and Malabar switch jobs remained to serve industries along the route.

From the beach, one can see ships in transit along the Malabar Coast, from beyond Calicut ( Kozhikode ) moving towards Mangalore, Goa and Bombay ( Mumbai ).

The Western Ghats extend from the southern portion of the valley of the River Tāpi along the Malabar Coast to Cape Comorin.

Ezhimalai, the ancient capital of the kingdom, was one of the most important trading centres on Malabar along with Quilon and Calicut, and has found mention in the writings of Ibn Battuta, Marco Polo and Wang Ta-Yuan and several other explorers.