Punnapra-Vayalar Uprising | |||||||
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Part of the Communist Movements in Travancore against the Diwan | |||||||
Memorial to those killed in the Punnapra-Vayalar uprising located near Kalarcode, Alappuzha | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
Kingdom of Travanore |
Laborers in Punnapra and Vayalar Communist Party of India | ||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||
K. Kelappan Nair | T. V. Thomas, R. Sugathan, S. Kumaran, P.T. Punnoose | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
40 deaths | More than 1,000 people dead |
The Punnapra-Vayalar uprising (October 1946) was a militant communist movement in the Princely State of Travancore, British India against the Prime Minister, C. P. Ramaswami Iyer and the state.[1] The revolt is named after the two places in which it took place; beginning in Punnapra and ending in Vayalar.
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Historians like Prof Sreedhara Menon[2] (though it is claimed that he had retracted his views later[3]) maintain this was a proper struggle against the declaration of 'Independent Travancore' by the then Travancore.