Variyan Kunnathu Kunjahammed Haji

chakkiparamban Variyan Kunnathu Kunjahammed Haji
Died	20 January 1922 Kottakkunnu, Malappuram
Known for	Leader of Māppila Uprising (1921-22)

Chakkiparamban Variyankunnathu Kunjahammed Haji (died 22January 1922) was a Mappila rebel leader in the 1921 anti-British uprising and Hindu genocide in the Malabar region, South India.

There are not much details about Kunjahammed Haji available, but some citations regarding Haji were found the in the book "Moplah Rebellion - 1921" written by Diwan Bahadur C. Gopalan Nair. This book is the most accurate, day by day description of events that conspired between 1920 to 1922. The Moplah rebellion was a planned uprising, for setting up a Islamic Caliphate in the Malabar region of Kerala.

His young life is not much documented except for a sketchy mention in the book, as cited below.

"...Variankunnath Kunhammad Haji, of a family of outbreak traditions, as a lad was transported with his father for complicity in a previous outbreak ; on his return 6 or 7 years ago was not allowed to settle down in his native village but after a time he went up to his village and started life as a cartman."

As per this book, during the Non-cooperation movement, in liaison with Khilafat movement, Congress had rolled out a program to setup Congress Sabhas across Kerala.

"...By June, 1921, Congress Sabhas had increased to a respectable figure in Kerala. Mr. K. P. Kesava Menon published the strength on 11th June, 1921, to be 189 Sabhas and 18,007 members, excluding 38 Sabhas, who had not reported their figures..."

The Muslim population of Malabar rallied under the Khilafat movement, and also setup 100 Khilafat Committees. These Khilafat committees had their Principality leaders, and volunteers.

"....Khilafat and non-co-operation movements were indistinguishable ; and they were worked as the common platform of the Congress in Malabar. Every Moplah centre had a Khilafat association, with a Moplah president, a Moplah secretary and a majority of Moplah members. The number or such Khilafat committees is not known, but in Case No. 128 of 1922, on the file of the Special Judge, Calicut, it has been mentioned that "there may have been as many' as 100 Khilafat Committees formed in the two taluks of Ernad and Ponnani...."

There were several leaders who made up the Khilafat movement. Some of the prominent leaders included

During the Moplah rebellion, each of the above played direct roles in the destruction of British offices, killing of British officers in guerrilla combat, butchering of Hindu peasantry & landlords, cold blooded murder of women, children, and also many massacres where dozens of Hindus were butchered or tortured to death, and bodies thrown into wells.

Kunahammed Haji rose from a job as a cart man to the role of Governor of the Caliphate principality of Ernad and Walluvanad. His role in the rebellion is described in Page 77 of ref

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