Malabar rites is a conventional term for certain customs or practices of the native Catholics of South India, concerning the liturgical rites, which the Jesuit missionaries allowed their Indian neophytes to retain after conversion, but which were afterwards prohibited by Rome.
The missions concerned are not those of the coast of southwestern India, to which the name Malabar coast properly belongs, but rather those of nearby inner South India, especially those of the former Hindu "kingdoms" of Madura, Mysore and the Carnatic.
Read more about Malabar Rites: Origins, Father De Nobili's Work, The Decree of Tournon, Examination of The Malabar Rites At Rome
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