The Moplah Rifles (1902-1907)
Posted by Labels: Malabar - English period 1900 -1950, Malabar Moplah, Moplah rebellion, Moplah rifles
A Short Lived experiment
Many have asked me why I continue to use the word Moplah,
and not the word Mappila. I have no real answer to that, perhaps it is because
it is more often used in historical text and finds more results in searches. I
have also never been a great supporter of changing well accepted names like
Bombay to Mumbai and Madras to Chennai, but then I should not digress. We will
spend some time today studying the creation and the untimely disbanding of the
Moplah Rifles in the British Army.