K. M. Seethi Sahib | |
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 K. M. Seethi Sahib | |
| Speaker of Kerala Legislative Assembly | |
| In office 22 February 1960 – 17 April 1961 | |
| Governor | V. V. Giri |
| Deputy | A. Nafeesath Beevi |
| Chief Minister | Pattom Thanu Pillai |
| Preceded by | Sankara Narayanan Thampi |
| Succeeded by | C. H. Mohammed Koya[1] |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1899[2] Kodungallur (Cochin) British India[2] |
| Died | 17 April 1961[2] Thiruvananthapuram (Kerala) |
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| Spouse | Khadija[2] |
| Parents | |
K. M. Seethi Sahib (1899—1961), born K. M. Seethi[2], was an Indian politician and community leader from Kerala.[3] He served as the Speaker of Kerala Assembly during 1960-61 (Pattom A. Thanu Pillai Ministry).[2]
Seethi Sahib, born in 1899 in an affluent family in Kodungallur in the Cochin state, enrolled as an Advocate in Madras High Court in 1927 and started practice in Cochin.[2] He started his political career with the Congress Party. He was elected to the Cochin Council twice (1928 and 1931) as a Congress member.[1] During the mid-1930s when the Muslim League ceased to cooperate with the Congress, Seethi Sahib and colleagues started organising the Muslim League in Malabar District.[1]
Seethi Sahib was the Secretary of the Indian Union Muslim League during the 1957 General Elections in India. After the Kerala Assembly Election victory against the Communist Party in 1960, Seethi Sahib was elected as the Speaker of the Kerala Assembly. He died while in office in 17, April 1961.[1] C. H. Muhammed Koya succeeded Seethi Sahib as the Speaker of the Kerala Assembly.[1]
Seethi Sahib is often considered as "the chief architect of Mappila revival" after the 1921 Mappila Uprising.[3][4] He was described by historian Robin Jeffrey as "the leading Mappila intellectual of the generation".[5] Seethi Sahib was originally inspired by the reformist leader Wakkom Maulavi (1873—1932).[3]
- ^ a b c d e Wright, Jr., Theodore P. (1966). "The Muslim League in South India since Independence: A Study in Minority Group Political Strategies". The American Political Science Review. 60 (3): 579–599. doi:10.2307/1952972. JSTOR 1952972. S2CID 143572105. Retrieved 31 July 2021.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j "Speakers and Deputy of Speakers of Kerala Legislative Assembly" (PDF). Kerala Legislative Assembly. Trivandrum: Secretariat of the Kerala Legislature, Government of Kerala. 2007.
- ^ a b c Miller, Roland. E (1987). "Mappila". The Encyclopedia of Islam. Vol. VI. Leiden: E. J. Brill. pp. 460 and 462.
- ^ Miller, Roland E. (2015). Mappila Muslim Culture. State University of New York Press. pp. 99, 102 and 204.
- ^ Jeffrey, Robin (1992). Politics, Women and Well-Being: How Kerala became 'a Model'. Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 111–12.