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THE FUTURE OF INDIAN POLITICS
old knightly warriors charged, and conflict,
we ••
November
The
cry with the Herald
met
God defend the Right
17,
in
shock of
:
" !
Annie Besant
1920
programme was begun formally 1920 Swaraj was to be attained
fourfold
on August
1,
;
in a year, and on August
1,
1921, the first step
was taken in the Malabar Rebellion the Musalmans (Moplas) of that district after three weeks of preparing weapons, rose over a ;
definite area in revolt, believing, as they
been
told,
British
that
they were free
;
had
Rule had ceased, and
they established the Khilafat
crowned a King, murdered and plundered abundantly, and killed or drove away all Hindus who would not apostatise. Somewhere about a lakh (.100,000) of people were driven from their homes with nothing but the clothes they had Raj,
on, stripped of everything.
Moplas
have
been
killed
Some thousands of fighting.
Many