Title: The Moplah Rebellion and its genesis
Description: An analysis of this rebellion, staged by the Muslims of Malabar, known as the 'Moplahs' or 'Mappillas'. Also analyses the way in which Moplah attitudes to power evolved from the time of the rule in Malabar of Hyder Ali and Tippu Sultan to the end of the Moplah Rebellion in 1922. The interpretation of the evolution of the rebellion owes much to analysis of social relations in the Malabar countryside; and it tends to contrast with the approach of Professor Stephen Dale of the University of Ohio, an expert in Moplah history.
Subjects: Moplah Rebellion, India, 1921, millenarianism, social banditry, fanaticism, Muslim violence, anti-Hinduism, anti-British imperialism, Indian nationalism, peasant revolt, Malabar social structure, Indian agrarian social relations, British policy in India, imperial policing, German warship EMDEN, Sudanese Mahdi, Dorsetshire Regiment, Leinster Regiment, Gurkha battalion, role of markets, conversion to Islam, Hind Swaraj; Freedom Movement
Places: Malabar, Kerala, Trivandrum, Malappuram, Manjeri, Ernad, Walluvanad, Calicut, Kondotti
People: Sir Thomas Munro, Hyder Ali, Tippu Sultan, Gandhi Mahatma (1869-1948), Eric Hobsbawm (1917-2012), Peter Worsley
Time periods: 1788-1925