Malabar (District)
The Malabar District is a former district in India . It existed until 1956 and was located on the Malabar Coast in the northern part of today's state of Kerala . The area of the district of Malabar included the current districts of Kannur , Kozhikode , Wayanad , Malappuram , most of the district of Palakkad , a smaller part of the district of Thrissur and the archipelago of the Laccadives in the Indian Ocean . The administrative center was the city of Kozhikode (Calicut).
The Malabar district came into being after Tipu Sultan , the ruler of Mysore , ceded the northern part of the Malabar coast to the British East India Company in 1792 at the end of the Third Mysore War . In 1799 the Wayanad (Wynaad) area followed. The British incorporated the area as the Malabar district under the Madras presidency . After Indian independence, the boundaries of the southern Indian states were redrawn according to the language boundaries by the States Reorganization Act in 1956 . The Malabar district was merged with the state of Travancore-Cochin to form the Malayalam-speaking state of Kerala. At the beginning of 1957, the Malabar district was divided into the three districts of Kozhikode, Palakkad and Kannur. The Malappuram district was formed in 1969 from parts of the Kozhikode and Palakkad districts, the Wayanad district was formed in 1980 from parts of the Kozhikode and Kannur districts.
The archipelago of Lakshadweep (including the island of Minicoy ) was in the wake of the States Reorganization Act , together with the adjacent Aminidivi for Union Territory Lakshadweep, Minicoy and Aminidivi merged, the name since 1973 Lakshadweep carries.
Web links
- The Imperial Gazetteer of India. Volume 17: Mahbūbābād to Morādābād. New edition. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1908, pp. 53-72 , keyword: Malabar .
