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{{War|name=Moplah Uprising |dates=1921-22 |image= |location=[[Malabar]] |result=<br> Uprising quelled|medal=<br>The Moplahs ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India_General_Service_Medal_(1909Mappila Mappilas]) India General Service Medal (1909)]<br>Clasp:Malabar 1921-22 |combatant1=are a Muslim community in [[British ArmyMalabar]] |combatant2=Afghan regular forces |category=which traditionally worked land held under tenancy from Hindu landlords. When Tipu Sultan took control of Malabar at the end of the 18th century the Hindu landlords were dispossessed and a new system of land revenue was introduced. However following the [[:Category:3rd Afghan War|3rd Afghan 4th Mysore War]] |link1=}}Hoping British rule restored the landlords with absolute property rights which allowed the Moplahs to be evicted. The injustice arising from this led to regain control civil unrest beginning in 1836. So-called Moplah Outrages continued in the next decades. By 1920 the matter had become an ideological and religious cause with the Moplahs calling for an Islamic state. They organised the Khilafat Conference and gained the support of the Indian National Congress. In 1921 there were serious outbreaks of violence and Hindus were murdered. In August demonstrators prevented the arrest of one of the Moplah leaders and this was followed by the siege of foreign policy ceded Tirurangadi police station when police fired on the crowd. A general uprising followed during which government offices were attacked and the British were unable to control the violence. Martial law was declared and the British at army called in. In November 67 Moplahs suffocated in a railway wagon whilst being transported to prison. The rebellion was effectively suppressed by the Treaty end of Gandamak 1879 1921. By February 1922 the leaders had been caught and to divert attention from internal strife, executed. == Government forces ==[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanullah_Khan Amir Amanullah KhanJohn_Burnett-Stuart General Sir John Burnett-Stuart] invaded India on 3 May 1919. commanding the Madras Military action took place mostly in the Khyber Pass but Kabul was bombed by the Royal Air Force and the Afghans attacked Thal. The Afghan forces were driven from British Indian territory and the Treaty District*2nd Btn [[39th Regiment of Rawalpindi on 8 August ended the British subsidy to Afghanistan which regained the right to conduct its own foreign affairs. Foot|Dorsetshire Regiment]]*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durand_Line The Durand LineMalabar_Special_Police Malabar Special Police]*3rd Btn [[Burma Rifles|70th Burma Rifles]]*2nd Btn [[44th Gurkha Rifles|8th Gurkhas]] defining * A company of sappers*Half the border between Afghanistan and the North West Frontier was re-affirmed.[[Mule Corps|20th Draught Mule Corps]] 

*[http://wwwen.military-timeswikipedia.co.ukorg/articleswiki/map-of-the-third-afghan-war.htm Map of the Third Afghan WarMalabar_Rebellion Malabar Rebellion] Military TimesWikipedia<br />*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Anglo-Afghan_War Third Anglo-Afghan WarWagon_tragedy Wagon Tragedy] Wikipedia<br />*[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=bv4hzxpo424C_2r8cLTkmA8C&pg=PA247PA23&dq=LandiMalabar+KotalSpecial+1919Police&hl=en&ei=pDHFTtesNIbC8QOSqrGkCw&sa=X&as_brroi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CD4Q6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=LandiMalabar%20Kotal20Special%20191920Police&f=false Third Anglo-Afghan WarMoplah Rebellion and the Malabar Special Police] Google Books<br />*[http://www.king-emperorkeepmilitarymuseum.comorg/2-153-Punjabismalabar.htm 2/153rd Punjabis php?=1=3 Dorset Regiment in the 3rd Afghan WarMalabar] www.king-emperor.comKeep Military Museum<br /> *[https://web.archive.org/web/20140508055942/http://www.kingscollectionsbcmh.org.uk/archive/servingsoldierconferences/index2012MalabarLloyd.php?id=706 pdf Asymmetry in Afghanistan "The Indian Army and the Malabar Rebellion, 1921- the poison gas option22"] by Dr Nick Lloyd BCMH [British Commission for Military History] The Serving Soldier websiteSummer Conference 2012 – Indian Armies, now an archived webpage. ===Historical books online===*[http://wwwarchive.newstatesman.comorg/stream/cu31924023929700#page/n3/mode/200607170060 The Third Afghan War] Taken from the 2up ''New StatesmanThe Mapilla Rebellion 1921-1922'' archive, 16 August 1919] Printed by the Superintendent Government Press Madras 1922 Archive.org*[httphttps://warandgamearchive.comorg/2008details/02/04/coloniala-controlshort-onhistory-aof-shoestringmuslim-therule-rafin-experienceindia/Moplah%20Rebellion%2C%201921/mode/ Colonial Control On A Shoestring — 2up ''The RAF ExperienceMoplah Rebellion, 1921''] by Maj Michael JDiwan Bahadur C Gopalan Nair, Retired Deputy Collector, Calicut, Malabar 1923. Archive.org. Part of a digital file of 35 sections [https://archive. Petersen includes org/details/a section -short-history-of-muslim-rule-in-india “Indian History - Collection of Indian History- Collection 7”] Archive.org*[https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.275121/2015.275121.Imperial-Policing#page/n93/mode/2up Chapter 5, "The Third Afghan War and the Northwest FrontierMoplah Rebellion 1921"], 1919page 83 ''Imperial Policing'' by Major-1920" WarandgameGeneral Sir Charles W Gwynn 1939 Archive.org, Public Library of India Collection. Also available as a different file [https://web.archive.org/save/_embed/http://lib.uofk.edu/multisites/UofK_lib/images/stories/libpdf/sud.lib.imperial%20policing.pdf Archive.org (pdf)].com

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