Catharina "Groote Catrijn" van Paliacatta, SM/PROG - Catharina van Paliacatta "Moorse slavinne"

A resource on the Muslims (Moors) of the Coromandel Coast.

THE MUSLIMS OF COROMANDEL (Chapter IV)

"A chain of Muslim trading settlements grew up along the east coast from Pulicat to Colochal in Kanniyakumari. Many of these richest settlements were located in the coastal towns of Thanjavur. Ramanathapuram, and Thirunelveli districts. They had links with wider trading world of Arabian peninsula and the lndian ocean. The port towns of Coromandel coast came to be identified as centres of formal lslam in South India by 12-13th centuries. The localities such as Pulicat, Nagapattanam, Kilakkarai and Kayalpattanam contained significant number of Tamil speaking Muslims who could be classed as permanently professing lslam and were actually recognised as such within the wider society."

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=ht...

Note: Pulicat = Paliacatta

"Tome Pires writes that all the merchants who traded on the sea along the Malabar coast were Moors. They carried on trade with the Coromandel coast up to Pulicat and in Ceylon and Maldive islands."

Source: Hamdard Islamicus: Quarterly Journal of the Hamdard National Foundation, Pakistan, Volume 7

Fascinating. Have you put it on her profile? Please also add/ edit the Coromandel entry on the Slave Trade DNA project: https://www.geni.com/projects/DNA-Mapping-of-the-Slave-Routes-to-So...

Sure, I have added the info.

:-)

"Moor" may have been shorthand for Muslim as my ancestor Amsoeboe van Timor,who was evidently Timorese[one his direct descendants tested for the Timorese haplogroup],was known as 'Paay Moor' towards the end of his life.

That's right, Indian Moor include members of the Memons, Bohra and Khoja communities.

There are interesting Yemeni links to the earliest Muslim traders on the Coramandel Coast, discussed by Mansell, which I had integrated here: https://www.geni.com/projects/DNA-Mapping-of-the-Slave-Routes-to-So...

Wow, thank you Gary :-)