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The first Malabar district political conference was held in 1916 under the presidency of Dr. Annie Besant. It exhorted people to organize committees to attain self-government. The second conference was held in 1917 under C.P. Ramaswami Iyyer and discussed problems like self-government, education, and land tenure. The third conference was held in 1918 under Mr. Azad Alikhan Bahadur and passed resolutions on education, military Indianization, and repealing repressive acts. The fifth and last early conference was held in 1920 under Kasturi Ranga Iyengar and marked a decline in Dr. Besant's influence and a change in delegates, with more Muslims attending.

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The First Malabar District Political Conference Held in 1916 at Palakkad PDF

The first Malabar district political conference was held in 1916 under the presidency of Dr. Annie Besant. It exhorted people to organize committees to attain self-government. The second conference was held in 1917 under C.P. Ramaswami Iyyer and discussed problems like self-government, education, and land tenure. The third conference was held in 1918 under Mr. Azad Alikhan Bahadur and passed resolutions on education, military Indianization, and repealing repressive acts. The fifth and last early conference was held in 1920 under Kasturi Ranga Iyengar and marked a decline in Dr. Besant's influence and a change in delegates, with more Muslims attending.

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The first Malabar district political conference held in 1916 at Palakkad

under the presidentship of Dr. Annie Besant was an important land mark in
the history of the national movement in Malabar. In an important resolution
of the conference it exhorted the people to organise committees in the district
for the attainment of self-government.7 The success of the Palakkad
conference was a source of inspiration and encouragement to the leaders and
the people. The second district political conference was held at Calicut in
1917 under the presidency of Sri. C.P. Ramaswami Iyyer.8 The conference
was attended by several delegates from the different parts of Malabar,
Travancore and Cochin. The conference touched on a number of problems
like self-government for India, the Arms Act, Elementary education, Tenancy
question etc. The arrest of Dr. Besant by the middle of 1917 greatly excited
the national consciousness of the people of Malabar. The third Malabar
district political conference held in 1918 at Tellicherry under the presidency
of Mr. Azad Alikhan Bahadur passed important resolutions like Indianisation
of the army, introduction of primary education, the repeal of repressive acts
etc. The fourth Malabar district political conference held at Badagara in 1919
under the presidency of K.P. Raman dealt with the important political
developments with a special reference to the needs of Malabar.
In April, 1920 the fifth Malabar district political conference was held
at Manjeri under the presidentship of Mr. Kasturi Ranga Iyengar. This was the
last in a series of early district political conferences held in Malabar.15 The
fifth conference was significant. It marked the decline of the great influence
that had been exerted by Dr. Annie Besant on the political developments in
Malabar. The Manjeri conference marked a change in the composition of
delegates as well as in the nature of the Congress deliberations.16 The
conference was attended by about 1300 delegates among whom were a large
number of Muslim peasants. The conference represented a trial of strength
between the two wings the moderates led by Dr. Annie Besant and the
extremists led by K.P. Kesavamenon.
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The Kerala Provincial Congress Committee was
formed in the same year, 1920. The first conference of Kerala Provincial
Congress Committee was held at Ottapalam on April 23, 1921 under the
presidentship of T. Prakasan. It was the first representative gathering of
Congressmen from Malabar, Travancore and Cochin.

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