Vakkom Moulavi

• Vakkom Muhammed Abdul Khadir Moulavi, popularly known as Vakkom Moulavi.
• He was the founder and publisher of the newspaper Swadeshabhimani.
• It  was banned and confiscated by the Government of Travancore in 1910 due to its criticisms against the government and the Diwan of Travancore,P.Rajagopalachari.
• Moulavi was born in 1873 in Vakkom, Chirayinkil Taluk, Thiruvanthapuram in Travancore. 
• Maulavi started the Swadeshabhimani newspaper on 19 January 1905.
• On 26 September 1910, the newspaper and press were sealed and confiscated by the British Police.
• The editor Ramakrishna Pillai was arrested and banished from Travancore toThirunelveli.
• He was ridiculously called ‘Kafur’ by the conservative set of muslims.
•  Al Manar, Al-Islam(1918) and Deepika(1931) are  journals started by Moulavi.
• In Deepika, he serialised the Malayalam translation of the Quran.
• He died on 23 August 1932 aged 59.