rvv ← Previous revision Revision as of 21:15, 3 November 2009 Line 1: Line 1: {{Refimprove|date=January 2008}} {{Refimprove|date=January 2008}} - The '''Moplah Rebellion''' (also known as the "Moplah Riots", "Maappila Lahala" in Malayalam) was a ((United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|British))-((Muslim)) and ((Hindu))-Muslim conflict or Janmi - Kudian conflict in ((Kerala)) that occurred in 1921 .This is now considered as a part of Indian Independence Movement . During the early months of 1921, multiple events including the ((Khilafat movement)) and the ((Karachi resolution)) fueled the fires of rebellion amongst the ((Moplah)) ((Muslim)) community along with their fellow low caste Hindus. This was considered as a rebellion against rich landlords . A rumour spread amongst the Moplahs that the British rule had ended and the Islamic Caliphate had been re-established at Delhi. + The '''Moplah Rebellion''' (also known as the "Moplah Riots", "Maappila Lahala" in Malayalam) was a ((United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|British))-((Muslim)) and ((Hindu))-Muslim conflict in ((Kerala)) that occurred in 1921. During the early months of 1921, multiple events including the ((Khilafat movement)) and the ((Karachi resolution)) fueled the fires of rebellion amongst the ((Moplah)) ((Muslim)) community. A rumour spread amongst the Moplahs that the British rule had ended and the Islamic Caliphate had been re-established at Delhi. - According to one view, the reasons for the Moplah rebellion was religious revivalism among the Muslim ((Moplah))s and low class Hindus , and hostility towards the landlord Hindu ((Nair)) ((Jenmi)) community and the British administration that supported the latter.{{Citation needed|date=April 2009}} + According to one view, the reasons for the Moplah rebellion was religious revivalism among the Muslim ((Moplah))s, and hostility towards the landlord Hindu ((Nair)) ((Jenmi)) community and the British administration that supported the latter.{{Citation needed|date=April 2009}} ==Rebellion and response== ==Rebellion and response== Line 12: Line 12: By the end of 1921 the situation was brought back under control. The British administration raised a special quasi-military (or Armed Police) battalion, the ((Malabar Special Police)) (MSP). These police recruits were trained by the British Indian Army, and during its initial days the recruits were non-Muslims. The MSP attacked the rioters, eventually subduing them. By the end of 1921 the situation was brought back under control. The British administration raised a special quasi-military (or Armed Police) battalion, the ((Malabar Special Police)) (MSP). These police recruits were trained by the British Indian Army, and during its initial days the recruits were non-Muslims. The MSP attacked the rioters, eventually subduing them.   +   + ((Annie Besant)) stated: "They ((Moplahs)) murdered and plundered abundantly, and killed or drove away all Hindus who would not apostatise. Somewhere about a lakh (100,000) of people were driven from their homes with nothing but their clothes they had on, stripped of everything...Malabar has taught us what Islamic rule still means, and we do not want to see another specimen of the ((Khilafat)) Raj in India."<ref>{{cite book   + | last = Besant   + | first = Annie   + | authorlink = Annie Besant   + | title = The Future Of Indian Politics: A Contribution To The Understanding Of Present-Day Problems P252   + | publisher = Kessinger Publishing, LLC   + | isbn = 1428626050   + }}</ref>   +   + '''Excerpts from a petition to Lady Reading, the wife of the then Viceroy of India from Rani of Nilambur'''{{Citation needed|Aug 2009|date=August 2009}}   +   + 'We, the Hindu women of Malabar of varying ranks and stations in life who have recently been overwhelmed by the tremendous catastrophe known as the Moplah rebellion, take the liberty to supplicate your Ladyship for sympathy and succour.'   +   + <blockquote>   + Your Ladyship is doubtless aware that though our unhappy district has witnessed many Moplah outbreaks in the course of the last 100 years, the present rebellion is unexampled in its magnitude as well as unprecedented in its ferocity. But it is possible that your Ladyship is not fully appraised of all the horrors and atrocities perpetrated by the fiendish rebels -of the many wells and tanks filled up with the mutilated, but often only half dead bodies of our nearest and dearest ones who refused to abandon the faith of our fathers; of pregnant women cut to pieces and left on the roadsides and in the jungles, with the unborn babies protruding from the mangled corpses; of our innocent and helpless children torn from our arms and done to death before our eyes and of our husbands and fathers tortured, flayed and burnt alive; of our helpless sisters forcibly carried away from the midst of kith and kin and subjected to every shame and outrage which the vile and brutal imagination of these inhuman hellhounds could conceive of; of thousands of our homesteads reduced to circular mounds out of sheer savagery in a wanton spirit of destruction; of our places of worship desecrated and destroyed and of the images of the deity shamefully insulted by putting the entrails of slaughtered cows where flower garlands used to lie, or else smashed to pieces; of the wholesale looting of hard earned wealth of generations reducing many who were formerly rich and prosperous to publicly beg for a pie or two in the streets of Calicut, to buy salt or betal leaf -rice being mercifully provided by the various relief agencies of Government.   + </blockquote> == Wagon incident == == Wagon incident == Line 26: Line 43: *((Khilafat Movement|Khilafat)) *((Khilafat Movement|Khilafat)) *((anti-Hinduism)) *((anti-Hinduism)) - *('1921' Malayalam Feature Film )   - *('Khilafath' Malayalam Movie )   ==External links== ==External links==