A forgotten incident of a nondescript mosque in Kanpur's Machli Bazar triggered the horrific Khilafat violence culminating in the Moplah genocide of Malabar Hindus
In less than two years, the appalling genocide of the Malabar Hindus will complete a full tragic century. It was on 20 August 1921 that a plague-like pogrom descended upon the unprepared and blissfully-unaware Hindus of Malabar at the hands of people they had trusted: the Moplah Muslims.
The barbaric Jihad against Hindus in the Malabar region can by no stretch of imagination be characterized as the “Moplah Rebellion.” Even the stray incidents of arson, capture of British officials, siege of police stations, etc do not qualify this appalling brutality to be termed a mere “rebellion.” The context