A clan from Yemen and history of Malabar -by Dr K.K. Muhammad Abdul Sathar

A clan from Yemen and history of Malabar

There was one family in Malabar whose socio-religious standing the British authorities feared the most for its potential to inspire and mobilise the natives, especially Muslims, against the colonial rulers. It was the descendants of this family, including the most influential member of it, Syed Fazl Thangal, that the authorities furtively extradited to Arabia in March 1852 and ensured that they never returned to the coast of Malabar.      

Who was this Syed Fazl Thangal? How and why he and his family including his famous father, Syed Alawi Thangal, a member of the Ba Alawi clan from Hadhramaut in Yemen, who arrived in Malabar in February 1768 and settled at Mamburam in Malappuram district, to be later known as the Mamburam Thangal, was an important figure in the history of Malabar and its anti-colonial engagements?

The book

A book ‘Mappila Leader in Exile—a political biography of Syed Fazl Thangal’ authored by K.K. Muhammad Abdul Sathar, history professor and head of the History Department, PSMO College Tirurangadi in Malappuram, attempts to give an answer to theses questions while also throwing some light on the socio-political environment of the region during the colonial times.

FAMOUS STATEMENTS

Famous Statement

  n Lord Dufferin : Congress was a microscopic minority.

n Lord Curzon :  Congress was ‘tottering to its fall’ and one of his greatest ambition in India was ‘‘to

assist it (congress) a peaceful demise’.

n Charles Napier: ‘We have no right to seize Sind, yet we shall do so and a very advantageous, useful

humane piece of rascality it will be ’’.

n Thomas Roe : ‘‘I know these people are best treated with the sword in one hand and the caducean in the other.’’

n Nabin Chandra Sen : ‘‘The battle of Plassey was followed by a night of eternal gloom for India’’.

n John Sullivan : ‘Our system acts very much like a sponge drawing up all the good things from the

banks of the Ganges and Squeezing them down on the banks Thames’.

Indian History Ojective Type Questions

Indian History

Ojective Type Questions

14. The Fourth Buddhist Council which was held in Kashmir during the reign of which King?
a) Ashoka
b) Kala Ashok
c) Kanishka
d) Ajatshatru

15. Which one among the following sites is located in the valley of Gagger and its associated rivers?
a) Alamgirpur
b) Lothal
c) Mohenjodro
d) Banwali

Dr. P J Vincent--Speech On Palastine

Historiography of 1857 Revolt

Historiography of 1857 Revolt

THE Revolt of 1857 was born out of various features ranging from the British policy of conquest and expansion to the colonial exploitation of India. Geographically speaking, it affected north-western, north and central India. The ‘Sepoy Mutiny’– as it was labelled initially by the colonial official writings, focused on the ‘Mutiny’ theme.

To colonial officials and writers it was the handiwork of a set of discontented sipahis who were unhappy with the introduction, in 1857, of the new Enfield rifle, with its distinct ammunition, which required the bullet to be bitten before loading. Rumours that the grease used on the bullets was either from the fat of cattle or pigs had symbolic implications. Thus, whereas cows were considered ‘sacred’ by the Hindus, the Muslims considered pigs to be ‘polluting’.

Regional Seminar

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One Day Regional Seminar

On

Political Crisis in West Asia: Issues and Implications

Friday, 14^th December 2012

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Supplementary Result of NET June 2012 .

UGC announced - Supplementary Result of NET June 2012 .

As per Supplementary Result,

now JRF Awarded to: 1685 Candidates

Eligible for Lectureship: 13493 Candidates .

Check yours Now!!! @http://ugcnetonline.in/ Result_june2012_ supplementary.pdf .

All the best Friends!!!

Word from UGC in Notification: In view of several representations received from the candidates regarding certain issues related with the result of UGC-NET held on 24th June 2012, UGC had set up a Committee to look into the grievances of the candidates and revisit the result.

The Committee held a few meetings and took cognizance of nature of issues raised by the candidates. The Committee revisited the result and decided to qualify a few additional candidates for Junior Research Fellowship and eligibility for lectureship both and eligibility for lectureship only.

The candidates who were declared qualified as per the result declared earlier on 18th September 2012 will remain qualified. However, some of the candidates who were declared eligible for lectureship only in the result declared earlier on 18th September 2012, have been identified for the award of JRF.