Tippu Sultan’s Malabar Genocide and Hindu Exodus – First Jihad Against Hindus Of Malabar- Part 3

A. DEMOGRAPHIC DECLINE OF HINDUS AND RAPID RISE OF MUSLIM POPULATION

The widespread atrocities committed by the Islamic tyrant and his equally cruel army of Muslim converts in Kerala, can be understood only from the authentic records available from various sources. According to them, about half the Hindu population of Malabar fled the country to the forests or Tellicherry and Travancore Kingdom. They included most of the Hindu Rajas and chieftains who could not stand up to the mighty army of Muslim barbarian rape-warriors and the powerful field-guns of the French. Important royal families which migrated to Travancore Kingdom were those of Chirackal, Parappanad, Ballussery, Kurumbranad, Kadathanad, Palghat and Calicut. The chieftain families which did the same were those of Punnathur, Kavalappara, Azhvancherry Thamprakkal, etc. Even the Cochin royal family moved to Vaikkom Palace near the famous Shiva Temple when Tippu’s army reached Alwaye.

Many members of the royal families of Malabar who migrated to Travancore Kingdom preferred to stay back even after the withdrawal of Tippu’s army and restoration of peace, because of their nightmarish experience of the Moplah atrocities in the past and the peculiar psyche of the forcibly converted Muslim population in Malabar. The prominent royal families were (1) Neerazhi Kovilakam, (2) Gramathil Kottaram, (3) Paliyakkara, (4) Nedumparampu, (5) Chempra Madham, (6) Ananthapuram Kottaram, (7) Ezhimatoor Palace, (8) Aranmula Kottaram, (9) Varanathu Kovilakam, (10) Mavelikkara, (11) Ennakkadu, (12) Murikkoyikkal Palace, (13) Mariappilly, (14) Koratti Swaroopam, (15) Kaippuzha Kovilakam, (16) Lakshmipuram Palace, and (17) Kottapuram.

The secularist admirers of Tippu Sultan have not bothered to read the records available with these Malabar families.

According to the renowned historian A. Sreedhara Menon, “Hindus, especially Nairs and chieftains who resisted Islamic cruelties, were the main targets of Tippu’s anger. Hundreds of Nair women and children were abducted to Sreerangapatanam or sold as slaves to the Dutch. Nairs were hunted down and killed and also deprived of all traditional and social privileges. Thousands of Brahmins, Kshatriyas, Nairs and other respected classes of Hindus were forcibly converted to Islam or driven out of their traditional ancestral homes. Thousands sought refuge in Travancore Kingdom while hundreds fled to forests and hills to escape Tippu’s atrocities which had completely shaken their sense of security.”

“The new phase of Mysore administration in Kerala resulted in unending wars. Extreme cruelties inflicted by the invading army on the hapless Hindu populace had badly affected every section of the society, leading to the mass exodus of people from Malabar.”

Elankulam Kunjan Pillai has recorded the situation in Malabar as follows: “Kozhikode was then a centre of Brahmins. There were around 7000 Namboodiri houses of which more than 2000 houses were destroyed by Tippu Sultan in Kozhikode alone. Sultan did not spare even children and women. Men folk escaped to the forests and the neighboring principalities. During the military regime of Tippu Sultan, Hindus were forcibly circumcised and converted to Muhammadan faith. As a result the number of Nairs and Brahmins declined substantially.”

The Hindu population in coastal Kerala has been reduced to ‘less than 20 per cent,’ if one goes by the ‘assessment’ of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh’s Kerala unit.

ISLAM, THE SAVAGE PARASITICAL DESERT DEATH CULT IMPORTED FROM ARABIA, GAINED ADHERENTS IN VAST AND EVER INCREASING NUMBERS.

B. ECONOMIC COLLAPSE

Lt. Col. E. Phitiyan, Andriansi, Mayan, K.P. Padmanabha Menon Sadasyathilakan T.K. Velu Pillai, Ullur S. Parameshwara Iyer, and other prominent people have described vividly the various types of atrocities committed by Tippu Sultan during the days of his Islamic rule in Malabar. There is no count of the Hindus’ wealth looted from their temples and taken away by Tippu to Sreerangapatanam.

“Many prosperous towns were destroyed while the local and foreign trade collapsed. Peasants who had to bear the brunt of army cruelties and coercive taxation policies, sought refuge in forests and mountains. In many areas, cultivation of pepper stopped resulting in the collapse of pepper trade. Consequent to the stoppage of foreign trade coupled with the precipitate fall in cultivation and local trade, economy of the country was also shattered; and major sections of the people were reduced to poverty. Thus every section of society was badly affected by the military regime of the Mysore rulers.”

C. CULTURAL STAGNATION

“Many Hindu temples, royal houses and chieftain families were destroyed and plundered. The exodus of Brahmins and Kshatriyas who were the patrons and custodians of traditional arts and culture resulted in stagnation in the cultural field also.”

D. HINDU-MUSLIM CONFLICTS

“Huge amount of wealth in the form of gold and silver accumulated through centuries of foreign trade, vanished from the country as a result of loot and plunder during the chaotic period of the military regime of Hyder Ali and his son, Tippu Sultan. Another serious development which had long term bad effects was that Malabar Muslims joined hands with the ranks of cruel invading Mysore army and proved their loyalty to Islamic faith by committing various atrocities against Malabar Hindus. This earned them enmity of Hindus. To gain political advantage, they resorted to forcible conversion of Hindus to Islam and also widespread destruction and plunder of Hindu temples.

The Mysore administration under the Muslim rulers had not only encouraged Moplah cruelties against the Hindu population but also gave the local Muslim converts special privileges and tax exemptions, leading to serious cleavage and enmity for the first time, between the two communities, Hindus and Muslims, in Kerala.”

E. SECURITY THREAT

VHP Kerala Secretary Kummanam Rajasekharan told rediff.com: “An Islamic religious conspiracy is on to drive out Hindus from the Kerala coast.” He alleged that anti-national outfits like Al-Umma and Laskhar-e-Tayiba are “actively engaged” in Kerala at the behest of Pakistan’s Inter Service Intelligence agency to drive out Hindus from coastal areas.

In Malabar the Moplahs increased many fold due to forcible conversion and now that region sends jihadi suicide-bombers to fight the Indian Army in the Kashmir Valley. Many of them have been arrested in Kashmir valley by our Army.

These persons are imparted training in two phases in the conditioning camps. The initial part of the training or the conditioning camp takes place in Kerala while the rest of the training is imparted in Kashmir. These youth are taught about the war against India. More importantly, they are taught Urdu so that they can communicate at ease with their counterparts and bosses in Pakistan. The second phase of the training includes arms training, which is imparted in Kashmir. Apart from this, the Lashkar-e-Tayiba (LeT) also set up the primary base of the Indian Mujahideen in Kerala in order to carry out terror activities in India. Source: rediffnews.com

The explosives used in the serial blasts that rocked New Delhi on September 13, 2008 were made by E T Sainudheen alias Sathar Bahi, a bomb-making expert from Kondotty in Malappuram district. Riyaz Bhatkal, the kingpin of the Indian Mujahideen who is now absconding had sent them to Delhi to Muhammad Saif. Muhammad Saif, was arrested from Batla House at Jamia Nagar on September 19, 2008 and the Delhi Police gleaned the details from Muhammad Saif during interrogation.

Kerala’s coastline is open to clandestine operations from the sea. There is a systematic effort to clear the coastline of all non-Muslims. Madrasas and mosques are coming up in large numbers all along the coastline. And some of these have become hubs of anti-national activities. The very fact that the murderers at Marad beach were arrested from the local Jama Masjid and also a huge cache of deadly weapons was unearthed from the Mosque buttresses this point.

It is now to this jihadi-dominated Malabar that the Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) of India’s mortal foe, Pakistan sends containers full of counterfeit Indian currency for distribution through its various local Islamic cells with the intention of undermining the Indian economy.

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