Who were the Moplhas and what was there rile in Muslim Nationalism? 6 marks.for grade 8
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The Moplah sword is a sword used by the Muslim population in the Malabar Coast in southwestern India. The Moplah sword has been used since the 17th Century, both as a weapon and a tool.
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: On 20 August 1921, a group of Muslim agricultural workers in Kerala’s Malabar region went up in arms against “unfair land laws” of the British, which while granting landowners complete ownership of agricultural lands, reduced this group to mere labourers with no control over the land they tilled or the produce thereof.
While it took the British several months to check the rebellion, 100 years later, the episode, known as the Malabar Rebellion, or the Mapilla or Moplah rebellion after the community that led the agitation, remains a contentious event in Indian history.
Some celebrate it as an “agrarian movement”, even an “anti-imperialistic rebellion”, and the Kerala government in 1971 had recognised the rebels of 1921 as “freedom fighters”, but others have termed it a “communal riot” and the “jihadi massacre of Hindus”, since the landowners of the time were mostly upper-caste Hindus.