Peasant revolt in malabar : (Record no. 19462)

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Classification number 305.560954 HIT
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Personal name Hitchcock, R. H.
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Title Peasant revolt in malabar :
Remainder of title a history of the Malabar rebellion
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Place of publication, distribution, etc. New Delhi
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Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Usha Publication
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Date of publication, distribution, etc. 1921
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Extent 340 p.
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Summary, etc. In August 1921, rebellion broke out among the Mappillas in the Malabar district of Madras Presidency. Extending over some two thousand square miles, two-fifths the area of the district, the rebellion, the culmination of a long series of Mappilla 'outrages,' was carried on for six months by peasant bands in what was described by British authorities as open war against the King.<br/><br/>The Mappillas, the Muslims of Malabar, traditionally trace their origins to the ninth century, when Arab traders brought Islam to the west coast of India.³ By 1921, the Mappillas (or Moplahs) constituted the largest and the fastest growing-community in Malabar. With a population of one million, 32 percent of that of Malabar as a whole, the Mappillas were concentrated in South Malabar. In Ernad taluk, the center of the rebellion, they formed nearly 60 percent of the population.<br/><br/>The community has been characterized as consisting of pure Arab settlers, of the descendants of Arab traders and women of the country, and of converts to Muhammadanism mainly from the lower Hindu castes." The pattern of Arab settlement and of the conversions, however, fundamentally affected the character of the community. 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 Mappillas had considerable autonomy, and under the patronage of the Zamorin of Calicut, they enjoyed prestige as well as economic power. 'Hindu Muslim relations . appear to have been characterized by limited contact and self-interested toleration.<br/><br/>From the sixteenth century, while Mappillas remained urban merchants, the greater portion of the community-'through the interrelated processes of immigration, intermarriage and conversion'-increasingly came to be agricultural tenants, low in status and desperately poor. With the rise of Portuguese power in challenge to Mappilla commercial interests, many Mappillas moved inland in search of new economic opportunities. As they moved into the interior of Malabar, they brought the fervor of Islam, heightened in the intensity of conflict with the Portuguese.
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Peasantry India
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