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Moplah deportees to Andamans in their patriotic pride called the place they settled by their village name
For the British, the Andaman islands may have been the safest place to deport the Moplahs who rebelled against them in Malabar in 1921. But for the Moplah deportees, the far-flung islands had turned out to be a place to register the love of their native land. Those who survived the cellular jails and the uncongenial terrains of the islands called the place they settled in by the name of their village in Malabar. Surprisingly, Andaman has places such as Nilambur, Mannarghat, Wandoor, Calicut, Tirur, Manjeri, Malappuram and Pandikkad. And all those places were named by the Moplas who were deported by the British from Malabar. As a mark of affiliation to and love of their motherland, they christened the places with the names of their native land.More Related News
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