Malabar Rebellion

Malabar Rebellion
Author: Biju Achuthan
Publisher: Notion Press
Total Pages: 222
Release: 2021-08-13
Genre: History
ISBN: 163997587X

The late 1910s were characterized by Gandhiji’s advent to the Indian political scenario. His contributions towards vindicating the rights of fellow Indians in South Africa had given a larger-than-life aura to him even before he set foot in the subcontinent. His experiences in South Africa had instilled certain notions in him about what was required to achieve swaraj. However, the efficacy of at least a few of his decisions would be strongly challenged by the underlying religiopolitical climate of the Indian subcontinent. Malabar in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was a land rife with conflicts and frequent revolts. The reversal of fortunes brought about by the retreat of Tipu Sultan and the hostile policies of the British against the Moplahs had driven a wedge between the Hindu population and the Moplahs, with the latter getting more hostile by the day. It is in this setting that the Khilafat movement was introduced in Malabar at the initiative of the Indian National Congress. The Moplahs who had been politically distant till then now had a religious aspiration to organize themselves. What ensued was the bloodbath that we know as the Malabar Rebellion.

The Moplah Rebellion and Its Genesis

The Moplah Rebellion and Its Genesis
Author: Conrad Wood
Publisher:
Total Pages: 292
Release: 1987
Genre: Moplah Rebellion, India, 1921
ISBN:

Rebellion of the Moplah Muslim peasantry from the Malabar region of Kerala against the British and the local landlords.

Against Lord and State

Against Lord and State
Author: K. N. Panikkar
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 256
Release: 1989
Genre: History
ISBN:

Arguing against the generally held view that the Mappila uprisings of Malabar resulted either from communal tension or agrarian discontent, this book analyzes the complex interrelationships between economic discontent and religious ideology in which the conflicts were rooted. Panikkar delineates the evolution of a negative class consciousness among the rural Hindu Mappilas from the early years of British rule to the final and decisive 1921 uprising against the lord and state.

The 1921 Uprising in Malabar

The 1921 Uprising in Malabar
Author: Nitheesh Narayanan
Publisher: Leftword
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2022
Genre: Communism
ISBN: 9789392018404

In 1921, there was a peasant rebellion in Malabar in present-day Kerala. The British colonialists attempted to give it a communal colour since most peasants were Muslim and the landlords Hindu. This narrative suited the landlords and served their interest. In our own times, forces of Hindutva have adopted the same communal narrative and are attempting to write the Malabar Rebellion of 1921 out of the history of the Freedom Struggle. History, however, is the result of a complex interplay of several factors. The early communists and some secular nationalists understood the rebellion to have a class character, but which would be manifest - due to the land tenure system set in place in Malabar - with religious and caste characteristics. This volume collects six of the definitive Communist voices from 1921 to 2021 that challenge the attempt to communalise the Moplah Rebellion; instead, they offer fact-based, materialist analyses that foreground the class character of the agrarian revolt, the way in which class intersected with other social identities (of religion and caste) in the unfurling of the rebellion, and the national and international shape of the rebellion. Together, these writings give the lie to the Hindutva narrative and assert the importance of rational, secular, and evidence-based history writing.

Pan-Islam in British Indian Politics

Pan-Islam in British Indian Politics
Author: M. Naeem Qureshi
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 572
Release: 1999
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9789004113718

This book deals with the Khilafat movement (1918-1924) in British India, which aimed at mobilizing pan-Islam for saving Ottoman Turkey from dismemberment and securing political reforms for India. It also examines the gradual transition of Muslim politics from pan-Islam to territorial nationalism.