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...James Heitzman Vom Herrscher zum Untertan: Spannungsverhältnis zwischen lokaler Herrschaftsstruktur und der Kolonialverwaltung in Malabar zu Beginn der britischen Herrschaft (1790–1805) . (From ruler to subordinate: Relationship of tension between local ruling structure and colonial power...

... . By Elizabeth A. Lambourn . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2018 . xvi, 301 pp. ISBN: 9781107173880 (cloth). Monsoon Islam: Trade and Faith on the Medieval Malabar Coast . By Sebastian R. Prange . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2018 . xvi, 344 pp. ISBN: 9781108424387 (cloth...

...Sandria B. Freitag Islamic Society on the South Asian Frontier: The Mappilas of Malabar, 1498–1922 . By Stephen Frederic Dale . Oxford : Clarendon Press , 1980 . ix , 226 pp. Appendix, Glossary, Notes, Bibliography, Index. $49 (cloth). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc...

...George Pati Gangadharan's detailed analysis in The Malabar Rebellion reinforces the importance of the rebellion in Malabar and its connection to the nationalistic movement and freedom struggle. This makes the book a highly rewarding study, one that takes significant steps toward integrating...

...Barbara Ramusack Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1967 1967 Malabar in Asian Trade, 1740–1800 . By Ashin Das Gupta . Cambridge : The University Press , 1967 . 204 pp. Map, Bibliography, Index. $10.50. BOOK REVIEWS a more hopeful cause. If, however, someone...

...Stephen F. Dale Abstract During the nineteenth and the early twentieth century, a series of violent outbreaks erupted in the rural areas of Malabar District in northern Kerala. The outbreaks were conducted by small groups of Mappillas, the indigenous Muslims of Kerala. At the time they occurred...

...David West Rudner Abstracts Most accounts of South Indian commerce in the seventeenth century depend on European documents and focus on Indo-European trade along the Malabar and Coromandel coasts. This article makes use of indigenous documents to analyze the way a caste of itinerant salt traders...

...Conrad Wood Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1977 1977 1 To be even more accurate, even certain groups of Ernad Moplahs, such as the Kondotti Moplahs discussed in footnote 9, would have to be excluded. 2 Remarks of H.V. Conolly, Malabar Collector...

..., broad-based Communist party in the late 1930s. 69 Madras FRi Dec. 1938, FRi Feb. 1939; MTC 1940, II, p. 281, evidence of M. P. Madhavan Nambudiri; A.K. Gopalan, speech, 23 Nov.1938, H.Poll, 7/9/41. 70 “Activities of the All-Malabar Peasants' Union,” 30 Apr. 1941, H. Poll, 7/9/41...

...-coreligionists.… Today, former British provinces like Ajmer and Malabar experience primarily caste and tribal violence whereas former princely states such as Jaipur and Travancore suffer considerable religious violence” (p. 149). Academics working on South Asia (and local residents) would be surprised to know...

.... One of the crucial differences that he has sometimes forgotten the broad between Travancore and Malabar was the in- scholarly audience he surely wants those who volvement of the British. In Malabar, where the study family and caste history in other parts of British ruled directly, missionary activity...

.... Colgate University MARCUS F. FRANDA Malabar in Asian Trade, 1740-1800. BY ASHIN DAS GUPTA. Cambridge: The University Press, 1967. 204 pp. Map, Bibliography, Index. $10.50. Three developments on the Malabar coast of India during the eighteenth century are included in this study that seeks to extend our...

... matrilineal descent groups (taravads) sometimes set up entire houses, replete with servants from Malabar, to lodge their sons while they attended colleges in Madras. The British-style education and elite careers of the Nayars and Pattar Brahmans who dominated the first phase of Kerala outmigration (1870-1920...

... in the development ofJewish law and learning" (p. 111). Koder, the leader of the Cochin community, skillfully relates their indigenous history through an account of their famous meeting with coreligionists from Amsterdam in 1687. The book's third section treats the Cochin and Malabar Jews specifically...

.... GEORGE F. DALES University of California, Berkeley Islamic Society on the South Asian Frontier: The Mappilas of Malabar, 1498-1922. By STEPHEN FREDERIC DALE. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1980. ix, 226 pp. Appendix, Glossary, Notes, Bibliography, Index. $49 (cloth). Representing at once agriculturalists...

... never obstructed his pragmatism. Palmeiro became a sought-after candidate for an administrative post with public exposure, first as rector at the Colegio de São Paulo in Braga, and then as visitor of the Malabar Province in India, in 1618. Among the many challenges Palmeiro successfully dealt...

... official] himself,” the Western Star wrote of British-ruled Malabar District, “exhibits a nervous dislike, if not an actual dread of publicity,” which manifested itself in “an open crusade against the Press” ( Western Star , December 23, 1871, 2). Travancore passed a law to regulate the press in 1903...

..., 2002). Readers should be aware that it is the book publisher rather than the author who usually has final say in cover design. Gangadharan, M.K., The Malabar Rebellion—ERRATUM Reviewed by George Pati doi: 10.1017/S0021911809992397 . Published by Cambridge University Press, 15 March 2010...

... sovereignty involving different levels of political organization. One of the fascinating features of the Malabar situation was the extinction of the imperial dynasty after the ninth century, creating the phenomenon of a "virtual" overlord that finds parallels in the Carolingian Empire in Europe (p. 162...

... has studied Arabic and Malayalam, the linguistic keys to the Mappilas' religious and cultural life. In fact, Miller has produced the first significant study of this important Indo-Muslim community since William Logan, the Collector of the old Malabar District, completed his report on Mappila rural...