An early 19 -century tribal uprising was organised in 1812 by Kerala’s first agricultural tribe from the Wayanad region, resisting British agrarian exploitation. This revolt is known as the:
Kurichiya Revolt
The Company era in the Malabar–Wayanad region of Kerala saw several tribal and peasant revolts against harsh British land-revenue policies, and this question points to one of the earliest of them. The correct answer is the Kurichiya Revolt of 1812 (also called the Kurichiya–Kurumba uprising or the Wayanad revolt).
The Kurichiyas were among Kerala's earliest settled agricultural tribes of the Wayanad hills. After the fall of Pazhassi Raja, the East India Company imposed heavy and rigid revenue demands — insisting on cash payment instead of the customary payment in grain, along with new taxes — which devastated tribal cultivators. In 1812 the Kurichiyas, joined by the Kurumbas and other hill communities, rose in armed rebellion using their traditional bows and arrows, temporarily overwhelming Company outposts before the superior firepower of the British eventually suppressed the uprising. It is remembered as a significant early anti-colonial peasant-tribal movement.
The distractors do not fit the specific details of "Kerala's first agricultural tribe from Wayanad in 1812." The Koya Viplavam (Koya rebellions) is associated with the Koya tribe of the Rampa/Godavari tracts in Andhra, not Wayanad. The Kadar are a forest tribe of the Anamalai/Cochin region and are not linked to this 1812 revolt. The Kurumbas did participate alongside the Kurichiyas, but the uprising is historically named after the Kurichiyas, so "Kurumba Uprising" is not the standard designation. Hence the Kurichiya Revolt is correct.
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