NAIR HISTORY 44 NAIR society changed a lot after the death of TIPU. All the territories annexed by Tipu were taken over by the EAST INDIA COMPANY .All the remaining family members of Tipu including his son Giasuddin were exiled to CULCUTTA. They were provided properties and money to keep them away from Mysore. The assets and wealth given to TIPU’s family were made a family trust and even in the twenty first century it remained the richest private family trusts of India , controlled by some unknown influential group and it is supposed to be this team behind the massive project to give a facelift to the FANATIC bigot a new image of secular,anti- colonial,patriot.(none of the Tipu successors are in the directors panel of this trust. A person of the Tipu lineage found as a ricksha driver in Calcutta recently by a prominent English magazine). The East India company tried to stabilize the political scenario in the British Malabar.The anarchists and Tipu appointed governors and revenue departments were replaced and steps were taken to reinstate the original NAIR owners of the estates and properties. But the conversion of a large number of Nairs and the upper castes made this effort a Himalayan task . These actions caused frictions and clashes in the society and MALABAR thus became a communally sensitive area where communal clashes became a regular affair. EAST INDIA company started its exploitations of KERALA more systematically after the fall of the ISLAMIC MYSORE rule. The dynasty of ZAMORIN came to an end .similarly the SPY AGENT of Tipu in kannur ARAKKAL MUSLIM ROYALs were also given pension for submission of their rule to the COMPANY During the Mysore rule ,many aristocrats and princes were taken asylum in TRAVANCORE. KOTTAYAM , kurumbranadu in Malabar , kadathanad like small principalities were thus started the experience of the colonial exploitation of the EAST INDA company. Fourth prince of KOTTAYAM under the title PAZHASSI RAJA started a popular uprising against the British exploitation of the peasants and small farmers .He organized a guerilla war against the EAST INDIA COMPANY with a committed nair brigade and a trained force of tribal communities like KURICHIYAS of WAYANAD. British lost many battles here and even ARTHUR WELLESLEY(who defeated NAPOLEAN) lost a major battle with the PAZHASSI RAJA and THE NAIR BRIGADE. At the same time during the beginning of the nineteenth century, TRAVANCORE also started the bitter bites of the EAST INDIA company exploitations. Initially they had to pay a big amount towards the cost of the war with TIPU . The politically unstable governments under the weak rulers after the era of DHARMA RAJA made matters worse. At this time VELU TAMPI was promoted as DALAWA of Travancore. Initially he was going well with the British but once recognized the shrewd moves of the COMPANY and its anti people policies ,VELU TAMPI STARTED REVOLTING against the COMPANY with the support of THE NAIR BRIGADE. The kingdom of COCHIN was traditionally ruled by THE PALIYATH ACHAN, the HERIDITORY PRIME MINISTERS OF COCHIN . since the times of the PORTUGESE the role of Paliyath Achan reached its peak and they were given the OWNERSHIP of VYPEEN ISLANDS. And the KING’S was just an ornamental position. Cochin was a TRIBUTARY OR a WASAL state of MYSORE. After the fall of TIPU, situations in COCHIN too became the same as that of their counter parts in TRAVANCORE. The hero in COCHIN against the British was GOVINDA MENON ,the then PALIYATH ACHAN and THE NAIR BRIGADE.
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