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'''Koya''' is a Muslim community, predominantly found in the city of [[Calicut]] in southern India. Scholars{{who?|date=November 2020}} speculate [[Oman]]i origin to the community and assume that the name is a corruption of the title "[[Khawaja]]". The powerful Koyas held administrative positions in the medieval Calicut court ([[Zamorin of Calicut|Zamorin]]).<ref name="KunhaliV">Kunhali, V. "Muslim Communities in Kerala to 1798" PhD Dissertation Aligarh Muslim University (1986) [http://ir.amu.ac.in/2736/1/T%205242.pdf]</ref><br />
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The Koyas are mostly concentrated in and around the [[Kuttichira]] region in Calicut. The Koya family was invited by Raja Keshavadas to Alleppey from Malabar during its formation. They were given permission to construct houses and to conduct trade to various parts of Travancore Kingdom. The Koya family in Alleppey still have their Major undivided property and Tharavads like Pyngamadom, Puthen nalakam, Pulikkalakath, Puthenveedu, Vyranveedu, are some. These Tharavads stands as historic monuments near Stone Bridge Alleppey.<br />
Koyas are also found on the [[Laccadive Islands]] as well as in other parts of former South Malabar Taluk. <ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" /><br />
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The Koyas followed maternal kinship system ("marumakathayam").<ref name=":1">Koya, P. M. Shiyaali. ''Koyas of Calicut: A Distinctive Matrilineal Social Group''</ref><ref name=":0">{{cite book |title=Sociology of Gender: The Challenge of Feminist Sociological Thought |first=Sharmila |last=Rege |publisher=SAGE Publications |year=2003 |isbn=978-0-76199-704-7 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=s0iJrK8ZLoIC}}</ref>{{page number|date=September 2011}}<br />
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==Further reading==<br />
* [https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/5178/1/ch9_osellas.pdf The Production of Cosmopolitanism among the Koyas of Kozhikode, Kerala (SOAS)] Filippo Osella and Caroline Osella<br />
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