A History of Malayalees in Penang: Part One: The First Wave – Traders, Convicts and Builders

By Suresh Narayanan

March 2018 WINDOW INTO HISTORY
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Small Indian vessels used on the coast of Malabar.
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Access to this article is open for a limited time only. For unlimited access to our e-archive, subscribe here. The Malayalees originate from the modernday state of Kerala, on the south-west coast of India, and Malayalam is their mother tongue. Older historical references identify them as Malabaris because they were from the Malabar Coast,1 which was made up of British Malabar2 and the princely states of Travancore and Cochin. Only in 1956, well after Indian independence, did the state of Kerala come...

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