In 1725, the French captured Mayyazhi and renamed it as Mahe in honour
of the French captain Francois Mahe De Labourdonnais.
The most important episode in the political history of north Kerala
in the second half of the 18th century is the conquest of Mysore by
the two muslim rulers, Haidar Ali and Tipu Sultan. Haidar Ali conquered
Malabar in 1773.
In Japuary 1788, Tippu Sultan descended on Kerala with a large army
and founded a new capital at Feroke for his Malabar province.
The treaties of Seringapatanam, signed on February 22 and March 18,
1792, formally ceded Malabar to the British.
The British entered into agreements with the rajas of Chirakkal,
~ ; Kottayam and Kadathanand and all of them acknowledged the full
I sovereignty of the Company over their respective territories.
The British Government divided the province of Malabar into two administrative
divisions -the Northern and Southern, presided over by a superintendent
each at Thalassery and Cherpulasseri, under the general control of
the supervisor and chief magistrate of the province of Malabar who
had his headquarters at Kozhikkode.
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