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Malabar Christians. The Christians of the state of Kerala on the Malabar (SW) coast of India. They number over 2 million, now divided into several communities (see
SYRIAN CHURCHES). They are known as ‘ Thomas Christians’ from their claim—taken seriously by some W. scholars too—that their ancestors were evangelized by St
Thomas. In any case, by the 6th cent. there was a Church in the region using Syriac in its liturgy and dependent for bishops on the (
Nestorian) catholikos of Baghdad. After heavy-handed missionary work by the Portuguese, the Church was formally purged of Nestorianism, brought under Roman obedience, and thoroughly Latinized at the synod of Diamper (Udayamperur, near Cochin) in 1599. Latin government of the Church continued as a source of tension down to the 20th cent. There was a defection of a large body eventually to the Syrian Orthodox in the 17th cent.; this schism gave rise to another in the 19th cent. with the creation of the
Mar Thoma Church. The Catholics are now styled the ‘Syro-Malabar Church’, having been granted their own metropolitanate of Ernakulam with Indian bishops in 1923.
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India, US hold naval exercise off Malabar coast
Newspaper article from: India Abroad; 10/17/2003; ; 619 words
; ...October 8 in the Arabian Sea off the Kochi coast, American and Indian naval officials...countries was picking up nicely. Code-named Malabar Series, the joint naval exercise began...global fight against terrorism." The Malabar Series began in 1992, but lapsed after...
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BOXESG, INDIAN WESTERN FLEET COMPLETE MALABAR '06
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 11/13/2006; 700+ words
; ...successfully completed Malabar 2006 off the Southwest coast of India Nov. 5...led the exercise. "Malabar '06 was a success...addition of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Midgett...that the next time Malabar happens." Boxer is...
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A Malabar Tale
Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post; 11/24/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...woman from Cochin, in Kerala, the Malabar coast, Southwest India. Its tiny, 2...granted special privileges by the Malabar ruler, including "signs of nobility...after which Yemenite Jews went to Malabar. They resisted Christian missionary...
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BOXER EXPEDITIONARY STRIKE GROUP COMPLETES VISIT TO MUMBAI, MALABAR
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 11/6/2006; 644 words
; ...between the nations involved. Malabar 2006 is the ninth Malabar exercise involving the U.S...Canadian Navy and international Coast Guard forces have participated...said the relationships the Malabar exercises have built between...
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Muslims, Matriliny, and A Midsummer Night's Dream: European Encounters with the Mappilas of Malabar, India1
Magazine article from: The Muslim World; 4/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...the Mappilas, the Muslims of Malabar in south India, and the influence...narrative, or English fiction. "Malabar" is the precolonial name of...Middle East and the eastern coasts of Africa. When western Christians...Vasco da Gama's footsteps to Malabar, they immediately placed the...
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Malabar on the mind ; A poet's first novel brings alive the voyage of Vasco da Gama.
Newspaper article from: India Today; 3/30/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...of Western expansion linking the Malabar coast with Europe by a sea route around...from the African coast across to Malabar without a local pilot. Portuguese...Egyptian dhows carried spices from Malabar and Malacca to the Red Sea ports...
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BOXER EXPEDITIONARY STRIKE GROUP, INDIAN NAVY BEGIN EXERCISE MALABAR 2006
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 10/27/2006; 686 words
; ...Western Fleet began Exercise Malabar 2006 Oct. 25 off the southwest coast of India. The purpose of the...will take part in Exercise Malabar, which runs through Nov...commander, noting that each Malabar exercise increases bonds and...
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U.S. 7th Fleet to Conduct Exercise Malabar 09 with Japan, Indian navies.
M2 Presswire; 4/23/2009; 608 words
; ...S. 7th Fleet to Conduct Exercise Malabar 09 with Japan, Indian navies(C...and India will take part in Exercise Malabar 09 off the coast of Okinawa, Japan, April 26 to May 3. The Malabar exercise series has historically been...
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Antony nixes expansion of India-US Malabar naval exercise
News Wire article from: The Hindustan Times; 9/24/2008; 606 words
; ...Wednesday said this year's Malabar war game Oct 15-24 will be...seaboard. "Only last year was Malabar a multilateral exercise. It...reporters here. Last year, the Malabar exercise saw five countries...and will reach India's west coast after calls at a few ports...
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What's the big fuss over Malabar naval exercise?
News Wire article from: The Hindustan Times; 8/24/2007; 572 words
; ...drill is unlikely to derail the Malabar exercise next month. Navy...protests across the eastern coast against the naval exercise...will be the 13th edition of Malabar, first conducted in 1994...supercarrier USS Nimitz for Malabar, which will involve 20-odd...
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Malabar Coast
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Malabar Coast , SW coast of India stretching c.525 mi (845 km) from Goa to the southern tip...coastal plain bounded by the Western Ghats. Monsoon rains make the coast a fertile rice-growing region. It was the scene of trade struggles...
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Malabar Christians
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions
Malabar Christians. The Christians of the state of Kerala on the Malabar (SW) coast of India. They number over 2 million...are now styled the ‘Syro-Malabar Church’, having been granted...
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Cochin Jews
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures Supplement
...world. They originate from the Malabar Coast in India and traditionally were...whom belonged to the "Black" or Malabar subgroup, went to Israel. A small number stayed behind on the Malabar Coast, and at the beginning of the new...
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Cochin Jew
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures
...the world. They hail from the Malabar Coast in India and traditionally were...majority of whom were "Black" or Malabar Jews, went to Israel. A small number stayed behind on the Malabar Coast; and today only a handful remain...
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Mappila
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures
...Mappila are Muslims who live along the Malabar Coast (now known as Malappuram District...British in the 1790s, and they ruled Malabar from 1792 to 1947. Mappila leaders...of Kerala, and especially of the Malabar area, has caused many economic...
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