Question

In which of the following years did the Malabar Rebellion break out in the southern taluks of Malabar?
1. 1935
2. 1918
3. 1939
4. 1921

Answer 1

Correct Answer - Option 4 : 1921

The Correct Answer is 1921.

• The Malabar rebellion in 1921-1922 happened in the Malabar region of Kerala, India.
• The Moplah Rebellion or the Malabar Rebellion was an extended version of the Khilafat Movement in Kerala in 1921.
• The Government had declared the Congress and Khilafat meetings illegal.
• So, a reaction in Kerala began against the crackdown of the British in Eranad and Valluvanad taluks of Malabar.
• But the Khilafat meeting incited so many communal feelings among the Muslim peasants, known as Moplahs, that it turned out to become an anti-Hindu movement from July 1921 onwards.
• The violence began and the Moplahs attacked the police stations and took control of them.
• They also seized the courts and the government treasuries.
• It became a communal riot when the kudiyaan or tenant Moplahs attacked their Hindu landlords and killed many of them.
• Thus, the Hindu Landlords became the victims of the atrocities of the Moplahs.

 

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• The situation was under control by the end of 1921. This rebellion was so fearful that the government raised a special battalion, the Malabar Special Police (MSP).

The leaders of this rebellion were:

1. Variyankunnath Kunjahammed Haji,
2. Seethi Koya Thangal of Kumaranpathor
3. Ali Musliyar.