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Sep 13, 2021 · Called the Malabar Rebellion or the Mappila Revolt, it took place between 1921 and 1922, and saw the Mappila community in present-day Malappuram district of Kerala unleashing a wave of violence against their colonial and feudal masters.
The Mappilas attacked and took control of police stations, colonial government offices, courts and government treasuries. [10] [11] For six months from August 1921, the rebellion extended over 2,000 square miles (5,200 km 2) – some 40% of the South Malabar region of the Madras Presidency. [12]
A combined operation with small corvettes were made in 1523 (930 AH) by the Mappilas of Pantalayani Janba (Chambra), Tiruwarankad (Tirurangadi) Barburankad (Parappanangadi) and other places, when they captured ten small ships of Portuguese. The situation in Calicut further worsened.
The Portuguese period resulted in a decline in the indigenous economic system, estrangement from Hinduism, and increased bitterness and tension between the Christians and Muslims; finally, the Mappila became militant against the Portuguese.
Sooner rather than later, tensions arose between the wealthy Mappila traders of Cannanore and the Portuguese state. The ships of the Cannanore Mappilas again and again fell prey to the Portuguese sailors off the coast of Maldives, an important point between Southeast Asia and the Red Sea.
Nov 28, 2008 · ‘When the lives of Englishmen were in danger during a critical phase of the rebellion, he had used his influence with the Mappilas and saved them. By a strange irony of fate Narayana Menon was later accused of treason and sentenced to 14 years rigorous imprisonment by a military court….
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At the beginning of the sixteenth century, when Portuguese and Arab chronicles provide the first detailed descriptions of the Malabar coast, the Mappillas were a mercantile community concentrated along the coast in urban centers and dominating intercoastal and overseas trade. Segregated from the Hindu population in separate settlements, the
