Question

The Moplah rebellion of 1921 broke out in
1. Assam
2. Kerala
3. Punjab
4. Bengal

Answer 1

Correct Answer - Option 2 : Kerala

The correct answer is Kerala.

• The Malabar rebellion, also known as the Moplah rebellion, was an armed revolt staged by the Mappila Muslims of Kerala in 1921.
• The freedom fighter Variyamkunnath Kunjahammed Haji led the Moplah uprising against the British in Kerala’s Malabar region.
• In August 1920, Gandhi along with Shaukat Ali, the leader of the Khilafat movement in India visited Calicut to spread the combined message of non-cooperation and Khilafat among the residents of Malabar.
  • In response to Gandhi’s call, a Khilafat committee was formed in Malabar and the Mappilas, under their religious head Mahadum Tangal of Ponnani who pledged support to the non-cooperation movement.
• The six-month-long rebellion is often perceived to be one of the first cases of nationalist uprisings in Southern India.

•  In November 1921, 67 Moplah prisoners were killed when they were being transported in a closed freight wagon from Tirur to the Central Prison in Podanur. They died of suffocation.
  • This event is called the Wagon Tragedy.