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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. 4
PLACES OF RELIGIOUS, HISTORICAL OR ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND (i) Places of religious importance Angadipuram TOURIST IMPORTANCE Angadipuram is situated about 1.5 km. west of Perinthalmanna. The Thirumandhankunnu and Thali temples here deserve special mention. The principal deities of the Thirumandhankunnu temple are Bhagavathi and Lord Siva. Architecturally it is a rectangular Dravida-shrine, but it has undergone alteration over the last two centuries. This place was originally forest and according to legend a female of the Cherunna caste while sharpening her knife on a stone surprisingly found blood oozing out from it. The news was taken to Kattilamittath Nambhoodiri and he later sanctified the stone while the Namkandath Namboodiri cleared the ground and Pandalakkot Namboodiri erected a pandal. Eventually a temple was constructed in the place of pandal. According to the inscription on one beam of the copper roofed shrine it was built in 1732 A.D. The Siva lingam here is believed to have been worshipped by Goddess Parvathi. This temple is very much associated with Poomthanam Namboodiri, an ardent devotee of Lord Guruvayoorappan. The Thali temple here is also equally ancient and its renovation under the leadership of Shri. K.Kelappan evolved much public interest. A Vishnu temple is also located nearby. Kadampuzha Kadampuzha (in Melmuri village) is located about 3 kms. north-east of Vettichira (in Kurumbathur village) on the National Highway-17. It is a place of pilgrimage attracting hundreds of devotees every day to its famous Bhagavathi temple believed to have been consecrated by Jagadguru Sankaracharya. Kondotty Situated 20 kms. west of Manjeri is associated with a Muslim saint Muhammad Shah, popularly known as Kondotty Thangal. Kondotty Valiya Nercha celebrated for 3 days annually in the Kondotty Thakkiya Mosque (which is believed to have been built by the then Thangal named Muhammad Shah) is an important festival in the district. The renowned Mapila poet Moikutty Vaidyar lived here. The Pazhayangadi mosque is also another important place of worship. Mamburam 5
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