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SAGA OF RAMASIMHAN & MATTUMAL NARASIMHA TEMPLE – III
By: V SUNDARAM vsundaram@newstodaynet.com
Monday, 10 August, 2009, 04:21 PM
In these columns on Wednesday, 5 August, 2009 and Thursday, 6 August, 2009, I had detailed
the heroic role played by Sri Ramasimhan and his family in rebuilding the Mattummal Sri
Narasimha Temple at Malaparamba, near Angadipuram, in Malappuram District.
Tipu Sultan and his Muslim army had destroyed the major portions of this Temple in 1794. What
ever remains/ruins that remained unmolested at the site were totally destroyed by the Moplah
Muslim marauders during the Moplah Rebellion in 1921.
The premises of Mattummal Sri Narasimha Temple as it exists now.
In the above photograph, we can see across the road on the right side a large bluish multistoried
building which today houses the M E S Medical College. Ramasimhan’s rubber estate bungalow
once stood there. After the mass murder of Ramasimhan and his family at this bungalow on the
midnight of 2 August, 1947, the Mattummal Sri Narasimha Temple was again razed to the
ground in the third week of August 1947. The Muslims occupiers of this bungalow found it
terrifying to live there due to unexplained recurring disturbances and unforeseen calamities
happening from time to time in their families. Taking note of this disturbing factor, the Muslim
owners of this bungalow decided to hand over the land with Ramasimhan’s bungalow for the
construction of a medical college. Even after the bungalow has been demolished and the coming
up of the medical college, on many nights, medical students, patients, medical staff and
watchmen etc are still experiencing spine chilling incidents by way of heart-rending screams of a
woman being murdered, followed by loud roaring animal noises. Some residents of the medical

college building have continued to experience the sock of sudden physical attacks by invisible
assailants.
In front of this medical college, a Mosque has been constructed just across the road from the
original temple premises, with the sole Islamic intent of humiliating the Hindus. Inside the temple
premises now there is a small red coloured building which is the baalaalaya or the temporary
temple where worship is conducted. This temporary temple will house the deity while the main
temple is being re-constructed following the clearance given by a court of law in 2003 for the re-
construction of the Mattummal Sri Narasimha Temple at this spot.
To go back to the sad story of martyrdom of Ramasimhan and his family at his own
bungalow on the midnight of 2 August, 1947. Within two weeks of martyrdom of
Ramasimhan, the savage Moplah Muslims demolished the beautiful Mattummal Sri Narasimha
Temple and its side walls. They then threw the divine moorthies into Temple wells and
Temple ponds.
The Malabar District Police took immediate action to arrest the murderers of Ramasimhan
and his family. A remarkable police detective called Keshava Menon apprehended the 9
murderers after collecting the necessary incriminating evidence and filed charge sheets against
them. He was successful in retrieving the murder weapons from the pond in which they were
dumped. Four of the murderers were sentenced to death by the District and Sessions Court at
Palghat. The Moplah Muslim community rallied behind the marauders by raising a large sum of
money for their legal defence on appeal in the High Court of Madras. Hon’ble Justice Horwill J
of the Madras High Court, in a judgement he delivered on 19 January, 1949, acquitted all
the accused for want of credible evidence.
The Hon’ble Justice Horwill observed as follows: ‘It is unfortunate that such a grave crime
organised by the Moplah Muslims against the Hindus of the area has not been detected; ...
if the police were unable to obtain more evidence it was because the Moplah community
largely succeeded in maintaining secrecy.’
Very much like the Islam-embracing Union Ministers belonging to the Congress Party today, a
Congress Minister in the then Madras Government, Sri Kozhipurathu Madhava Menon (who
was a Minister in the Madras Government) allegedly collected bribes from the rich and influential
Moplah landlords and business men and took an active part in the appeal proceedings filed by
the Moplah murderers in the Madras High Court. All the State Advocates were specially
instructed to water down the legal presentation of the case in the Madras High Court. Congress
leader and advocate U Gopala Menon used under-hand means to get the case dismissed by
the Madras High Court. Solid pieces of evidence were destroyed and prosecution witnesses were
harassed and coerced into silence. Finally the case was dismissed on the grounds of lack of
evidence. Thus the murderous Moplah Muslim jihadis were set scot free. The Hindu population of
the area felt let down by the Congress leaders of the time and by the State.
Ramasimhan’s manager, Narayana Menon, (retd.) DySP, also became a traitor, collecting
bribes from the Moplahs. He handed over the guardianship of Ramasimhan’s sons Fateh Singh
and Jorwar Singh to Ramasimhan’s estranged father-in-law, UnniKammu who then forcibly
reconverted those two kids to Islam.
When Ramasimhan’s (Uneen Sahib’s) two sons embraced Hinduism, at the Arya Samaj
Temple at Calicut, they were given the names of Fateh Singh and Jorwar Singh (names of the
two martyred young sons of the tenth Sikh Guru, Guru Gobind Singh, who were put to death by
Aurangazeb in 1705). After the brutal mass murder of Ramasimhan and his family, his two
surviving sons Fateh Singh and Jorwar Singh were forcibly reconverted to Islam by their
maternal grandfather UnniKammu. Even after this coerced conversion to Islam, the two boys
remained acutely aware and conscious of their transformed Hindu identity. They later told the
local Hindu leaders that they would have reverted back to Hinduism, if only the Hindu community

in the area had been powerfully organised into a closely knit society. Not only that; they went a
step further and even expressed their total willingness to transfer the lands belonging to the
demolished Temple back to the Hindu community in the area for management and control.
A decade later, the shameless Communist traitors of Russian and Chinese vintage tried to
white wash the deadly jihadi assault on Ramasimhan and family that had taken place on 2
August, 1947. 28 December 2008 issue of Mathrubhumi Malayalam daily newspaper carried
the letter of EMS Namboodripad justifying that carnage. EMS Namboodripad, the Chinese
stooge and Marxist traitor in Kerala justified the murder of Ramasimhan and his family and
used the dialectics of Karl Marx to portray his murder as arising from “economic causes”,
implying that the Hindu Ramasimhan was a ‘class enemy’ who justly paid his price for
‘exploiting the poor labourers’ of his rubber estate. In addition, he chose the typically
devious communist stratagem when he blamed the Hindu organisations for the carnage.
EMS Namboodripad (EMS) was a political scoundrel who in all his actions, speeches and
writings presented a confused communist mixture of half-truths, smears, innuendos, non-
sequitrs, contradictions, presumptuous judgements and wild fanciful obiter dicta.
Sri C P Janardhanan, President of the Temple Trust told me: “Mahatma Gandhi let down
the Hindus of India at the national level. It was EMS who was responsible for destroying
Hindu religion, Hindu society and Hindu Culture in Kerala after independence.”
The sheer inability and impotence of the Hindu community in the area to reclaim the lands
belonging to the Mattummal Sri Narasimhamoorthy Temple resulted in another tragedy. The
600 acres of Temple lands were alienated and sold off to different categories of Muslims. The
concerned portion of the land which constituted the Temple premises was declared by the
government as disputed land on which land levies remained in arrears for nearly fifty years.
On 2 Aug, 1992, exactly 45 years after the martyrdom of Sri Ramasimhan, under the guidance
of the Malappuram Organiser of Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP), Sri P. Radhakrishnan, VHP
Prakhand Pramukh Sri Manikantan, RSS activist Sri M. Gopala Krishnan a large group of
ardent Hindu followers reached the premises of the destroyed Sri Narasimhamoorthy Temple.
They offered floral tributes and salutations to the martyred Sri Ramasimhan and family and took
the solemn pledge to rebuild the Sri Narasimhamoorthy Temple even at the cost of their lives.
These Hindu leaders and activists were arrested by the police. It is a known fact that in both
Congress and Communist government in Kerala, Hindu leaders and Hindu organizations are
harassed by wilful and arrogant police and bureaucrats who encroach upon their traditional
religious rights in a planned brutal manner.
Vishwa Hindu Parishad, Kerala gave a petition to the RDO to allow Hindus to conduct worship
on the ‘Disputed Land’. They engaged Advocate Suresh Lal to represent them. In 1995 the
Hindu activists formed a Committee to conduct a peaceful struggle to liberate the temple from
non-Hindu control. A Temple Trust, consisting of leading citizens of the area, was constituted with
C P JANARDHANAN as president to take necessary action to reclaim control of lands for the re-
construction of the Mattummal Sri Narasimha Temple.

P Parameswaran, director of Bharateeya Vichara Kendra and President of Vivekananda
Puram (4th from the left). Sureshji Joshi (Bhaiyaji Joshi), Sahsarkaryavah of RSS (6th from
the left). C P Janardhanan, president of the Temple Trust (8th from the left).
In this context, I would like to record the bold and courageous leadership provided by Sri
C P Janardhanan, the Temple Trust President, in uniting the terrorized and demoralized
Hindus of the area with total focus on achieving the supreme objective or re-construction
of Mattummal Sri Narasimha Temple. Sri C P Janardhanan, an acknowledged expert in
traditional martial arts of Kerala, was the RSS Zilla Prachaarak in Calicut and Trichur. He is
the Palghat Division President of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad, Member of The Advisory
Committee of the famous Tirumandham-Kunnu Temple at Angadipuram, Founder-Member
of Sree Valluvanad Vidya Niketan and is also the president of the Mattummal Sri
Narasimha Temple Trust.
The energetic and purposeful action now being taken to re-construct the Temple under the
inspiring leadership of C P Janardhanan has to be told in greater detail.
(To be contd...)
(The writer is a retired IAS officer)
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vsundaram@newstodaynet.com