Hello fellow historians. In today's video, we explore the fascinating history of how a small group of farmers from Kalimantan, Indonesia (the Maanyan) ended up thousands of miles across the Indian Ocean on the island of Madagascar. Please join for another fascinating journey through history.

For a complete history and historiography of Indonesian settlement in Madagascar see:

Ann Kumar, “’The Single Most Astonishing Fact of Human Geography’: Indonesia’s Far West Colony,” Southeast Asia Program Publications at Cornell University 92 (Oct 2011): 59-95.

For a brief overview of the genetic and linguistic evidence for Indonesian settlement in Madagascar see:

https://news.mongabay.com/2012/03/mad...

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...