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The conflict was renewed in 1800 over a dispute on Wayanad and after a five-year-long war of insurgency, Pazhassi Raja was killed on 30 November 1805 in a gunfight at Mavila Thodu (small body of water), in the present-day Kerala-Karnataka border.
Sep 15, 2023 · Pazhassi Raja (January 3, 1753 – November 30, 1805) is known in the history of the Indian independence movement by the names of Kerala Varma, Veera, Kotiot Raja, etc. He was a Hindu warrior prince and the de facto head of the kingdom of Kottayam in Malabar, India, formerly known as Kotiot, between 1774 and 1805.
- The most agitated and widespread rebellion in southern India against the East India Company was that of Kerala Varma Pazhassi Raja. The movement wa...
- In 1805, the newly appointed British Sub-Collector T. H. Baber organized a huge English army against the movement of Pazhassi Raja and fought a war...
- There are two main reasons for the Pazhassi revolt: the first reason being the introduction of taxes related to land and crops by the British and t...
- From the year 1786 to 1793 various communities and tribes such as Adachena Kungan, Talakkal Chandu, Catherine Anbu, and Kannavatha Sankaran Nambiar...
- Between 1793 and 1797, Pazhassi Raja united all sections of his kingdom and led a rebellion against the British using guerrilla warfare techniques...
One of the most serious of the rebellions organized against the British was the one associated with the name of Kerala Varma, popularly known as Pazhassi Raja. A heroic figure in the history of Kerala who belonged to the western branch of the Kottayam ruling family with headquarters at pazhassi.
Pazhassi Raja was a prince of the Kottayam Kingdom who led an active resistance against the Kingdom of Mysore and later the British East India Company in the late 18th century and early 19th century. Read on to know more.
Aug 14, 2021 · Kerala Varma Pazhassi Raja, a native prince of Malabar, revolted against the British East India Company even before the 1857 Sepoy Mutiny, the more widely known first struggle of Independence that began in Meerut by Indian soldiers who worked for the British East India Company.
Feb 19, 2020 · While his ferocious courage in rebellion against the British ultimately cost him his life it wrote Pazhassi Raja into the history books as a legend of Kalaripayattu and a hero of Kerala. Little is known about Pazhassi’s childhood. He was born on the 3rd of January 1753 to the Kottayam Raja family and given the name Kerala Varma.
These uprisings were documented by the company as the Pychy Revolt or Catiote rebellion after the name of Kerala Varma Pazhassi Raja, who assumed the leadership of the peasant revolts in Kottayam. He revolted against the company for the restoration of the right to revenue collection of Kottayam.
