BRIEF HISTORY - Government of Kerala

the Mappilas became desperate and committed acts of forcible conversion, looting of Hindus, arson
and murder besides looting and destroying public offices. The rebellion was crushed by hanging or
deporting the rebels to the Anadman Islands, besides imprisoning large number of persons. Sri K.P.
Kesava Menon who had intimate personal knowledge of the men and women connected with the
rebelllion has expressed the view quoted from Kozhikode District Gazetteer that “there is no doubt
regarding the genesis of the rebellion on 1921. It was born out of police repression. Its chief cause
was the excessive violence used by the authorities to suppress the Khilaphat movement, and not any
Jenmi-Kudiyar conflict or dispute regarding mosque. When police atrocities became unbearable, they
gave up the vow of non-violence and decided to meet violence with violence itself”. After the
rebellion, the political activity in Malabar came to a standstill till the starting of the Civil
Disobedience Movement. The Payyanur Conference in May 1928 was presided over by Pandit
Jawaharlal Nehru and it generated great enthusiasm among the masses and gave a fresh impetus to
the activities to the activities of the Congress in Malabar. Volunteers from this district also
participated in the famous Salt Satyagraha on 1930 and may courted arrest. The withdrawal of the
Civil Disobedience Movement led to a peculiar political situation in the country. The younger
general of the Congress men decided to form a Congress Socialist Party in 1934. This leftist group
who subscribed to the community ideology was under the leadership of P. Krishna Pillai and E.M.S
Namboodiripad. The rift in the Congress became very serious at its meeting in Shornur in October
1934. In 1936, elections were held to the Madras Legislature base on the revisions of the Government
of India Act, 1935 and all the Congress candidates from Malabar were retuned to the provincial
legislature. the volunteers of this district also participated in the Quit India Movement of 1942 and
many persons were put behind the bars. Of the major political set up in Malabar, the most important
was the emergence of Kerala Muslim League as a political party in the district under the leadership
of Syed Abdul Rahman Bafaki Thangal, K.M. Seethi Sahib and C.H. Mohammed Koya. It is
worthwhile to say here that the population of this district consists mostly Muslims. The people are
pious and the background of the people tells the story of an arduous life in the midst of hills, boulders
and rocks.
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