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WHAT IS KNOWN AS PUNNAPRA-VAYALAR AGITATION

The Punnapra-Vayalar uprising (October, 1946) was a communist uprising in the Princely State of Travancore, British India against the Prime Minister, Sir C. P. Ramaswami Iyer and the state. Common men with slogans such as "chuck the American model into the Arabian Sea" fought against the Prime Minister in Punnapra and Vayalar, killing 200 people at Punnapra on October 24 and killing more than 150 at Vayalar on October 27. The total loss of life is estimated to be more than a thousand.


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