13 Facts About Malabar Coast

1.

Malabar Coast is the southwestern coast of the Indian subcontinent.

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2.

The Malabar Coast is a source of Biodiversity in India.

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3.

Whole name Malabar Coast was first attested in Arabic in the writing of Al Biruni.

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4.

Until the arrival of the British, the term Malabar Coast was used in foreign trade circles as a general name for Kerala.

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5.

The term Malabar is often used to denote the entire southwestern coast of India.

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6.

Malabar Coast is reminiscent of the word Malanad which means the land of mountains.

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7.

Name Malabar Coast is sometimes used as an all-encompassing term for the entire Indian coast from Konkan to the tip of the subcontinent at Kanyakumari.

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8.

Malabar Coast is used by ecologists to refer to the tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests of southwestern India .

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9.

Geographically, the Malabar Coast can be divided into three climatically distinct regions: the eastern highlands; rugged and cool mountainous terrain, the central mid-lands; rolling hills, and the western lowlands; coastal plains.

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10.

Term Malabar Coast is sometimes used as an all-encompassing term for the entire Indian coast from the western coast of Konkan to the tip of the subcontinent at Cape Comorin.

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11.

Malabar Coast travelled extensively across the Indian subcontinent founding institutions of the widely influential philosophy of Advaita Vedanta.

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12.

Malabar District, a part of the ancient Malabar was a part of the British East India Company-controlled state.

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13.

The District of Malabar and the ports at Beypore and Fort Kochi had some sort of importance in the erstwhile Madras Presidency as it was one of the two districts of the Presidency that lies on the Western Malabar Coast, thus accessing the marine route through Arabian Sea.

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