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unusual facts about Malabar


Callistemon 'Lilacinus'

albus, which was "discovered in nature" at Long Bay by Mr H. Burrell, and currently given the name C. citrinus 'Lilacinus Albus'.


Alangium villosum subsp. polyosmoides

The generic name is from the Malabar people, being their name of the related Asian species, Alangium decapetalum.

Azad Moopen

He belongs to the Moopen family of Kalpakancheri in Malappuram district of Kerala, who owned a bulk of land in the area and who ruled Kalpakancheri, a part of Valluvanad in Southern Malabar.

Ba 'Alawiyya

Thus all the 'Alawi sayyids of Hadramaut are his progeny, and his descendants has since spread far and wide to the Arabian Peninsula, India especially in northern states of Surat and Ahmadebad and along the Malabar Coasts, North and West Coast of Africa, India, and the countries of the Malay Archipelago spreading Sunni Islam of the Shafii school and the Ba'Alawi Tariqah brand of Sufism.

C. Sankaran Nair

His early education began in the traditional style at home and continued in schools in Malabar, till he passed the Arts examination with a first class from the Provincial School at Calicut.

Castries

Vigie Beach, Malabar Beach, Choc Beach, and La Toc Beach are all within easy reach.

Chandrika

It is published from Kozhikode, Kannur, Malappuram, Kochi, Trivandrum, Doha, Dubai, Riyadh and Jeddah and was the first attempt to have a newspaper from Malabar Muslims to support the political party.

Congregation of Mother of Carmel

In May 1887, the Holy See established the Syro-Malabar Church in India as independent of the hierarchy of the Latin Rite.

Congregation of Saint Thérèse of Lisieux

It was founded on 19 March 1931 in a small village called Mookkannur by Mar Augustine Kandathil, the Metropolitan of Ernakulam and head of the Syro-Malabar Church.

Cotigao Wildlife Sanctuary

Animals in the sanctuary include the flying squirrel, slender loris, Indian pangolin, mouse deer, four-horned antelope, Malabar pit viper, hump-nosed pit viper, white-bellied woodpecker, Malabar trogon, velvet-fronted nuthatch, heart-spotted woodpecker, speckled piculet, Malayan bittern, draco or flying lizard, golden-back gliding snake, and Malabar tree toad.

Devadasi

Gough Kathleen, "Female Initiation Rites on the Malabar Coast", Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, No. 85, 1952.

Eutropis beddomii

Eutropis beddomii is found in southern India (Salem, Tinnevelly, Malabar, Mysore, etc.), the most northern locality known being SE Berar.

Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction

Merrily Weisbord, The Love Queen of Malabar: Memoir of a Friendship with Kamala Das

History of Guadeloupe

They came from the Coromandel Coast, Puducherry, Madras, Calcutta and Malabar, and were hired to work in the sugar cane fields.

INS Malpe

INS Malpe an Indian Naval minesweeper, named after a port in Malabar coast Malpe.

INS Malvan

INS Malvan was an Indian Naval minesweeper, named after a port in Malabar coast Malvan.

Joseph Kallarangatt

He currently serves as the Bishop of the Syro-Malabar Eparchy of Palai (also known as Pala), which has the largest concentration of Syro-Malabar Catholics.

Jungle rot

Tropical ulcer (also known as "Jungle rot", and "Aden ulcer", "Malabar ulcer", and "Tropical phagedena")

Kochi metropolitan area

Finally, the Government of India's States Reorganisation Act (1956) inaugurated a new state Kerala; incorporating Travancore-Cochin (excluding the four southern Taluks which were merged with Tamil Nadu), Malabar District, and the taluk of Kasargod, South Kanara.

Koodali

Among the members of the family are KT Kunhikammaran Nambiar, a member of the Madras Legislative Council and KT Kunhiraman Nambiar, volunteer of Indian National Congress and participant in Salt Satyagraha in Malabar, and later president of Kerala's Pradesh Congress Committee, and member of the undivided Communist Party of India.

Larry Gomes

In an Indian summer to his career, some 20 years after touring England as a schoolboy cricketer, he was named Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1985 and the Larry Gomes Stadium in Malabar, Arima, is named after him.

Lepidoptera Indica

Moore also noted the contributions of Sir Walter Elliot from the Madras region, S. Nevill(e) Ward for notes from the Malabar coast, W. S. Atkinson, A E Russell, Colonel A M Lang (Oudh, Kashmir, Simla), Captain T. Hutton (Mussoorie), Captain H. L. de la Chaumette (Lucknow), C. Horne, Dr Francis Day, W. Forsyth Hunter, Major J. Le Mesurier, Major-Gen.

Madayi Kavu

During the incursion of Haider Ali into Malabar, followers of the invading army had destroyed nearby temples (including Vadukunnu Shiva Temple).

Malabar Cancer Centre

Malabar Cancer Center (MCC), established at Kodiyeri near Thalassery in Kerala state, South India, is an autonomous centre under the government of Kerala.

Malabar Coast

The Irish folksong Coast of Malabar, performed by Tommy Makem and The Chieftains among others, is a lilting romantic air.

Malabar Farm State Park

Nestled in the hills of Pleasant Valley, Malabar Farm was built in 1939 by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Louis Bromfield and was his home until his death in 1956.

Malabar large-spotted civet

In the 19th century, Malabar civets occurred throughout the Malabar coast from the latitude of Honore to Cape Comorin.

Marakkar

Dr. J.B.P.More points out to spoken words, marriage customs etc. which strongly connect the Marakkayars of Tamil to the Malabar Marakkars.

Marumakkathayam

The joint family under matrilineal system is known as Tharavad and it formed the nucleus of the society in Malabar.

Maruthoor

Though members of this family have migrated to different parts of Kerala (in the south-west region of India on the Malabar coast Malabar Coast), the main area of settlement is still found in and around Keezhuvaipur, Mallappally, Paduthodu and Valakuzhy.

Mathai Nooranal

Noornal served various positions in the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church, including the Priest Trustee of the Church, Secretary and administrator Malabar Diocese, besides as managing committee member of the Church.

Mysorean invasion of Kerala

The Mysorean invasion of Kerala (1766–1792) was the military invasion of Malabar (northern Kerala), including the territories of the Zamorin of Calicut, by the Muslim de facto ruler of the Kingdom of Mysore Hyder Ali.

Nilgiri Malabar Battalion

The ghats of the Nilgiris lead to the plains of Malabar and Coimbatore.

Oryzias curvinotus

Oryzias curvinotus or the Malabar ricefish are a freshwaterbrackish fish species native to the Gulf of Kutch to Trivandrum, Kerala, India.

Pazhassi Raja

Along with this he had close ties with Ravi Varma and Krishna Varma, who were princes of Calicut and popular rebel leaders of southern Malabar.

Rhacophorus pseudomalabaricus

Rhacophorus pseudomalabaricus (Anaimalai flying frog or false Malabar gliding frog) is a species of frog in the Rhacophoridae family endemic to the Anaimalai Hills of Tamil Nadu and Kerala states, India.

Roy Moxham

His third book, Malabar Dreams, looks at the earliest European settlers in India, from the time Vasco da Gama landed on the Malabar Coast, to the time the British established a strong foothold.

Sevenes

Sevens is a kind of football played in North malabar, especially in Kozhikode, Malappuram and Kannur.

Syro-Malabar Catholic Church

Michael Geddes, (1694) A Short History of the Church of Malabar together with the Synod of Diamper, London.

The Latinization of the Syro-Malabar rite churches was brought to a head when in 1896 Ladislaus Zaleski, the Apostolic Delegate to India, requested permission to translate the Roman Pontifical into Syriac.

Thalassery Stadium

On this ground, the first ball was bowled in the early 19th century, thanks to Colonel Arthur Wellesley, who brought the game to this Malabar town.

Thevara

Tomb of Mar Varghese Payyappilly Palakkappilly at Mar Yohannan Nepumsianose Syro-Malabar Church, Konthuruthy

Thomas C. Jerdon

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

Thomas William Bowlby

Lord Elgin and Baron Gros were his fellow passengers in the steamship SS Malabar, which sank in Galle harbor on 22 May 1860 after being beached in a severe storm; his report of the shipwreck was considered one of his best pieces of work.

TKM Bava Musliyar

Hailing from Malappuram, he served as Qazi (chief jurist) at Kasaragod for 25 years and possessed reputation as spiritual leader of Malabar region.

Vaidyar

Names of many such Ezhava Vaidyans from social renaissance period and on wards are noted by the community and recorded in the books.Itti Achuden was reportedly an Ezhava,who helped Gowda saraswatha Brahmin Vaidyans from south canara to identify local names of herbs seen in the mountain regions of Malabar to prepare a Dutch treatise Hortus Malabaricus on plants of Malabar.Eventually he became a notable person as a Vaidyar.

Warren Prall Watters

Warren Prall Watters (November 24, 1890 – June 15, 1992) was the founding archbishop of the Free Church of Antioch (Malabar Rite), one of several Independent Catholic Churches.

Watters, shortly before his death, established the Free Church of Antioch (Malabar Rite).

Yohannan VIII Hormizd

In 1796 a delegation from the Malabar Christians arrived in Mosul and begged him to consecrate a bishop for them.


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