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When did migrants from the Malabar Coast arrive in Lakshadweep?
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Lakshadweep
Beach on Bangaram Island, Lakshadweep.
Migrants from the Malabar Coast of southwest India arrived in the islands of Lakshadweep sometime before the 7th century CE. These migrants and their descendants eventually converted to Islam, though they retained certain social and religious traditions, such as a matrilineal kinship system, that reflect their original Hindu heritage.1