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The Kadakkal Rebellion of 1938 or Kadakkal Revolt was the spontaneous participation of the people of Kadakkal in the course of India's struggle for freedom and their contribution to the great saga of Indian nationalism, is a unique event in the history of the princely state of Travancore. During pre-independence period, Kadakkal, the small hamlet witnessed a great farmers' movement led by local leaders, which eventually culminated in the formation of an administration, perhaps the smallest in the world lasting for a short span of nine days only, though. The small hamlet of Kadakkal came down to the main stream of India's struggle against the imperial and colonial forces through its voluntary involvement in the civil disobedience from 26 September 1938 to 5 October 1938 (1114 Kanni 10 to Kanni 18). When the civil disobedience movement gathered momentum in the rest of the country the people of Kadakkal commenced the agitation by obstructing collection of marketing tolls, exhorting the people not to pay taxes, closing down the schools, looting the police station, threatening to demolish Government officials and offices, preventing the entry of Military, by cutting down trees demolishing culverts, etc. There had for some time been complaints regarding collection of tolls in the market. It was reported that the toll contractor, one Abdul Razak was receiving several time the amount actually due from who resort to the market for the sale of articles. The authorities took no steps to redress their grievances. A few enthusiastic young people apparently public spirited took up on themselves to the duty of redressing grievances of the resorting to the market of Kadakkal. They are said to have effectively prevented the collection of tolls by the Contractor there on 26 September 1938. ==Thrikkannapuram incidents== On the morning of 29 September 1938 at about 7 a.m., a police party with two Sub-Inspectors and the magistrate reached Kadakkal "When they reached Kadakkal they learnt that a tumultuous crowd was from the east at some distance and so they decided to meet the crowd on their way itself and prevent them from coming to the locality of the out post. When the police reached Thrikkannapuram, at the place called Pangalkadu, they saw the crowd about 1,000 strong coming from the east shouting Ki-Jais to the state congress leaders most of them clad in Khadar and wearing Gandhi caps and stones and sticks in their possession. When the police bus approached they began to pelt stones at the bus. The Magistrate asked the inspector to disperse the crowd by using force. The inspector ordered his men to charge the crowd with lathis which they did. But the crowd, not in mood to disperse, moved on the sides of the road and continued to pelt. The head constable and the daffadar got serious injuries. Finding it unsafe to remain there anymore, the Magistrate and his party returned to Kottarakkara (Judgement, Para:9). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kadakkal’s Freedom Struggle」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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