describe the different resistance movements against the British in Malabar Cochin and Travancore
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Malabar rebellion (also known as the Moplah rebellion and Māppila Lahaḷa in Malayalam) was an armed rebellion in 1921 against the British government in the Malabar district of Southern India by Mappilas. From 1799 until 1806, Pazhassi Rajah defied the British in North Malabar in the Cotiote Wars took place because of the Friendly terms of monarchs and chieftains with the British. But a band of Mappila chieftains—Chemban Poker, Manjeri Athan Gurikkal, and Unni Mootha Muppan rose in revolt in South Malabar.
These violent people urged the British authorities to dispose of a massive army of 10,000 to 15,000 men. Huge losses of men are recorded on both camps – with British losing 4,000 men in their initial war with Pazhassi Rajah alone. The forest-clad hills which covered most of Malabar proved beneficial to the rebels who conducted guerrilla warfare to attack British regiments.
The Travancore resistance against the British East India Company was headed by the Prime ministers of the Indian states of Travancore and Cochin in 1808–09. On 18 December 1808, an open revolution happened out in Travancore and Cochin. At midnight, the Resident's house in Cochin was attacked, though Colonel Macaulay and Kunhikrishana Menon succeeded to escape. The British fortification in Cochin, under Lieutenant Colonel John Chalmers, attacked by thousands of army as well as the state forces of Travancore.
The British got Malabar from Tippu Sultan in 1792.
In any case, Malabar was a territory that was tormented by refraction, agitation and insurrection as right on time as 1766—when Hyder Ali possessed entire of Malabar.
Too many years of Mysore exertion to oppress this territory wound up in turmoil and disarray in Malabar with a piece of her populace either dead or relocated and once prosperous economy wrecked.