Tag: Moplah rebellion

Thiruvananthapuram:  With the news that popular leaders of the Malabar Rebellion like Variyamkunnath Kunjahammed Haji and Ali Musaliar, along with 387 other leaders of the pre-independence agitation, are set to be removed from the ‘Dictionary of Martyrs of India’s Freedom Struggle’, jointly published by the Ministry of Culture, Government of India and Indian Council of Historical Research (ICHR), a former chairman said that the decision is nothing but political. M.G.S. Narayanan, who was the chairman of ICHR from 2001-03 reacting to the decision by the former body that he headed,...