When History Is Held Hostage: Commemorating the Continuing Sufferings of the Mappila Martyrs of 1921
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When History Is Held Hostage: Commemorating the Continuing Sufferings of the Mappila Martyrs of 1921

While religion had a part to play in the rebellion, the movement in fact registered the resistance of the rural poor to acts of oppression and exploitation perpetrated by feudal landlords and the British colonial state.