Contemporary newspaper reports and de-classified archival sources are used to revisit an infamous episode in the long, contentious, and very often violent encounter between colonial rule and the Muslim Moplah peasants. The significance of the Moplah rebellion is re-stated as being relevant and revelatory to all peoples, despite the timelessness of war, as it marks the emergence of protracted (asymmetrical) guerrilla tactics as the dominant mode of anti-colonial warfare. Moreover, the long series of suicide attacks by the Moplahs, and the punitive justice, summary executions, and abuse they experienced as prisoners at the hands of the colonial government, are all appallingly familiar today as part and parcel of ‘modern warfare’. Analysts, educators, policy makers and researchers are invited to review the events that constitute the Moplah rebellion (primarily as they were portrayed by newspaper reporters) in order to grasp the ‘new realities’ the conflict gave rise to, and to appreciate the wider international significance of what happened in Malabar (South India) at that time. Rather than speculate on the psychological and sociological facets of Moplah resistance and the politics of a mass movement, as in the case of the prevailing discourse on the Khilafat movement, new insight into the imbrications of the history of the Moplahs is provided by situating the events of the Moplah rebellion of 1921-22 against the contemporary background of militant Islamism and the on-going ‘War on Terror’.

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重新考虑的莫普拉叛乱：1921-1922年印度南部的伊斯兰起义

当代报纸报道和解密的档案资料被用来重新审视殖民统治与穆斯林Moplah农民之间长期的，有争议的，且经常是暴力的encounter亵事件。尽管战争是永恒的，但莫普拉叛乱的意义被重新表述为对所有人民都是相关的和启示性的，因为它标志着持久的（不对称的）游击战术的出现是反殖民战争的主要模式。此外，作为“现代战争”的一部分，今天，穆普拉夫妇进行的一系列自杀式袭击，以及在殖民地政府手中作为囚犯经历的惩罚性司法，即决处决和虐待，都令人震惊。分析师，教育家，请政策制定者和研究人员回顾一下构成莫帕拉叛乱的事件（主要是由报纸记者描绘的事件），以便了解冲突引起的“新现实”，并了解发生的事件的广泛国际意义当时在马拉巴尔（印度南部）。与其推测莫帕拉抵抗运动的心理和社会学方面以及群众运动的政治性，不如就基拉法特运动的主流话语来推测，而是通过事件的发生来提供对莫帕拉斯历史im绕的新见解。 1921-22年莫普拉叛乱的背景，是当代伊斯兰武装主义和持续进行的“反恐战争”的背景。