A three-member committee appointed by the Indian Council of Historic Research said names of close to 400 people associated with the 1921 Mapilla/Malabar/Moplah Rebellion will be dropped from the Dictionary of Martyrs of India’s Freedom Struggle, released by the ministry of culture in 2019.

Exactly a hundred years ago, the Malabar roiled in a many-layered conflict — peasant vs landlord, Muslim vs Hindu and coloniser vs colonised. The ruling of the Special Tribunal in the trial of Ali Musaliar, who was executed, read thus: “...it was not mere fanaticism, it was not agrarian troubles, it was not destitution... The evidence conclusively shows that it was the influence of the Khilafat and non-co-operation that drove them to their crime... Their intention was to subvert the British Government.” The ICHR panel observed that the rebellion had little to do with the independence struggle.

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Eastern India’s first passenger train ran from Howrah to Hooghly in 1854.