What exactly is Malabar?


They sort of explain that in the movie, but I could use more details to understand better. If anyone could explain me, I'd appreciate.

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Just the name of a horse that won the Derby. The name may have been made up.

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Malabar is a place name.

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It is a district in India about 140 miles long. I think the British fought a battle there, so somebody named a racehorse that name.

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Thanks for the info, patwin55-1. I didn't know that.

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Malabar is a district in India.

EM Forster evokes it in his 1924 novel A Passage To India. He uses the name as "Marabar" to denote the caves where his main character has a mystical quasi-sexual experience.

Two years later, Forster's associate DH Lawrence uses the name "Malabar" in the climax of his Rocking Horse story about an adolescent and his frenzied night-riding which, of course, is an allegory for masturbation.

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