This paper presents a sharp critique of the distorted history surrounding the 1921 Moplah Rebellion. For decades, mainstream historians, influenced by colonial and socialist narratives, have whitewashed this event, labelling it an “agrarian uprising” or a “freedom struggle.” This paper rejects those fabrications. By analysing the 1922 poem Duravastha by Mahākavi Kumāran Āsān, we expose the rebellion for what it truly was: a calculated, theological genocide aimed at the Hindus of Malabar. Āsān, writing as a contemporary witness rather than a distant academic, documented the horrific reality of forced conversions, the desecration of temples, and the sexual violence faced by Hindu women. His work stands as primary evidence that the violence was not driven by land disputes, but by religious fanaticism.
Furthermore, this paper explores Āsān’s role beyond literature.
