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MALABARI, BEHRAMJI (1853– )

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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 453 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MALABARI, BEHRAMJI (1853– ) , See also:Indian journalist and prisoners who all this See also:time had remained in the hands of the social reformer, was See also:born in 18J3 at See also:Baroda, the son of a See also:sultan. An attack was delivered by d'Alboquerque on the poor Parsi in the employment of the See also:state, who died shortly 25th of See also:July 1511, but it was only partially successful, and it after his See also:birth. His See also:mother took him to See also:Surat, where he was was not until the 4th of See also:August, when the See also:assault was repeated, educated in a See also:mission school, but he never succeeded in gaining that the See also:place finally See also:fell. Since that time Malacca has continued an academical degree. Coming to Bombay, he fell under the to be the See also:possession of one or another of the See also:European See also:Powers. See also:influence of Dr See also:John See also:Wilson, See also:principal of the Scottish See also:College. It was a Portuguese possession for 130 years, and was the See also:head-As See also:early as 1875 he published a See also:volume of poems in See also:Gujarati, quarters of their See also:trade and the See also:base of their commercial explorafollowed in 1877 by The Indian Muse in See also:English Garb, which tions in See also:south-eastern See also:Asia while they enjoyed, and later while attracted See also:attention in See also:England, notably from See also:Tennyson, Max they sought to hold, their See also:monopoly in the See also:East. It was from See also:Muller, and See also:Florence See also:Nightingale. His See also:life See also:work began in Malacca, immediately after its See also:conquest, that d'Alboquerque 188o when he acquired the Indian Spectator, which he edited sent d'Abreu on his voyage of See also:discovery to the See also:Moluccas, or for twenty years until it was merged in the See also:Voice of See also:India. Spice Islands, which later were the See also:objective of See also:Magellan's In 1901 he became editor of East and See also:West. Always holding voyage of circumnavigation. During the Portuguese See also:tenure of aloof from politics, he was an ardent and indefatigable See also:advocate Malacca the place was attacked at least twice by the Achinese; of social reform in India, especially as regards See also:child See also:marriage its See also:shipping was harried by See also:Lancaster in 1592, when the first and the remarriage of widows. It was largely by his efforts, See also:British See also:fleet made its way into these seas; it was besieged by both in the See also:press and in See also:tours through the See also:country, that the See also:Age the Dutch in 16o6, and finally fell to a See also:joint attack of the Dutch of Consent See also:Act was passed in 1891.

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account of his visits and the Achinese in 1641. It was under the Portuguese govern-to England, entitled The Indian See also:Eye on English Life (1893), ment that St See also:Francis See also:Xavier started a mission in Malacca, the passed through three See also:editions, and an earlier See also:book of a somewhat first See also:Christian mission in Malayan lands. satirical nature, See also:Gujarat and the Gujaratis (1883), was equally The Dutch held Malacca till 1795, when it was taken from popular. them by See also:Great See also:Britain, and the Dutch See also:system of monopoly in See R. P. Karkaria, India, See also:Forty Years of Progress and Reform, the straits was forthwith abolished.

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