Mappila Muslims, 19th-century India. The term 'Moplahs' in the inscription is an archaic term for Mappilas, one of the largest communities of Muslims

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Mappila Muslims, 19th-century India. The term 'Moplahs' in the inscription is an archaic term for Mappilas, one of the largest communities of Muslims found in the state of Kerala in southern India. This watercolour is plate 33 from one of a set of three volumes by the Indian-born British artist and amateur ornithologist Margaret Bushby Lascelles Cockburn (1829-1928). These volumes, dating from 1858, consist of artworks of the people, flora and fauna of 19th-century India, particularly in and around the city of Kotagiri, in the state of Tamil Nadu, in southern India.

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