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| The Attingal riot of 1721.madhyamam.com |
Do you have any idea about when and where the first rebellion against the racist and corrupt East India company and their dominance had taken place?
This earliest rebellion had superseded revolts by Rani Velu Nachiyar (3 January 1730 – 25 December 1796) of Sivaganga estate of Tamil Nadu from c. 1780–1790 and the first Indian queen to have waged war with the East India Company, Veerapandiya Kattabomman, an 18th-century Palayakarrar and king of Panchalankurichi in TN who was hanged to death on 16 October 1799 and the Vellore mutiny, or Vellore Revolution, that occurred on 10 July 1806 - a large-scale and violent mutiny by Indian sepoys against the East India Company,
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| Attingal, Kerala. ecityatl.com |
Way back in 2017 -HRD minister Prakash Javadekar said The Paika rebellion of 1817 took place far before 1857 and should be included in the history book as the earliest independence strike in India as it occurred far before the first war of independence of 1857 that snowballed into a hell-bent rampage from Meerut city cantonment. Historians approved that it 1957 revolt was the earliest rebellion for independence in India.
Soon in the same year the Kerala Charithra Samrakshana Samithi gave a rebuttal saying several rebellions in South India prior to 1817 took place. Unfortunately such early revolts in the 1700s went unnoticed or overlooked. As a matter of fact, before 1817 at least there were four rebellions in Kerala alone against foreign ruler, three in Travancore alone. The southern kingdoms of Kochi, Malabar and Thiruvananthapuram saw violent upheavals prior to 1817 against the diabolical and manipulative English company who wanted to control both north and south Kerala, including the Malabar region.
The Attingal riot of April–October 1721 resulted in the murder of 133 British while thousands of British soldiers were killed in Kerala.This incident took place following siege of Fort Anjengo. The main reason behind the resentment during the reign of Rani Aswathi Tirunal Umayamma (1677-1684), was due to large-scale corruption and manipulation of black pepper prices by the company.
Kerala Varma Pazhassiraja’ led several revolts against the British from 1795 to 1805. The Nair brigade mutiny in 1804 in Travancore was yet another violent protest against the British who forced the ruler to impose higher taxes and burden the people. foreign invaders.
In 1809 the violent rebellion against the British, who interfered in the internal matter of the royal family by Travancore diwan Veluthampi Dalava resulted in the death of hundreds.
According to historian Gopikrishnan the 1721 Attingal rebellion has all the needed data and record to prove it was the first major independence movement in India, surpassing others including the 19th century Paika rebellion (Paika Bidroha) that was against new fresh tax hike by the British in Odisha. It was led by Bakshi Jagabandhu Bidyadhar, forcing the English company to withdraw taxes.
There are several books that provide solid proof for the riots that happened. Mention may be made of T P Sankarankutti Nair’s book ‘Veluthampi Dalava Charithra Thaalukaliloode’, Shankunni Menon’s ‘Thiruvithankoor Charithram, R B Chowdhary’s ‘Civil Disturbance in India’, and G Krishnan Nadar’s book ‘Nair Brigadinte Charithram, etc.’
Will the central government rewrite the early history of freedom struggle as the Indian history written several decades ago is full of holes and the history writers then did injustice to south Indian ruling dynasties, freedom struggle, etc?. New history book should include many northern ruling dynasties of past era and many freedom struggle events left out in the old history book.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/61349168.cms?utm_source=conte
