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{{Short description|Indian politician and social worker}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Kottal Uppi
| image = File: K._Uppi_Saheb.jpg
| caption = Kottal Uppi
| office =
| term_start =
| term_end =
| office2 =
| term_start2 =
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| birth_date = 1891
| birth_place = Kottayam, [[Kuthuparamba]]
| death_date = 11 May 1973
| party =
* [[All-India Muslim League]] (till 1947)
* [[Indian Union Muslim League]] (after 1947)
| parents = * Mayan Adhikari (father)
| spouse = Kayyumma
| education = * Tellicherry Moplah School
* Tellicherry Brennen College
* Mohammedans College, Madras
}}
'''K. Uppi Saheb''', or '''Kottal Uppi Saheb Bahadur,''' (1891–1972) was an Indian politician and social worker from [[Kannur]], north [[Kerala]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal|last=Wright|first=Theodore P.|date=1966|title=The Muslim League in South India since Independence|url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-political-science-review/article/muslim-league-in-south-india-since-independence-a-study-in-minority-group-political-strategies/2EBA3F25D373A0D9BA1DBAA6B9D25C30|journal=American Political Science Review|language=en|volume=60|issue=3|pages=579–599|doi=10.2307/1952972|jstor=1952972|issn=0003-0554}}</ref><ref name=":2">{{Cite journal|last=Wright|first=Theodore P.|date=1964|title=Muslim Legislators in India|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/2050136|journal=The Journal of Asian Studies|volume=23|issue=2|pages=253–267|doi=10.2307/2050136|jstor=2050136|issn=0021-9118}}</ref>

Kottal Uppi, from an elite [[Mappila]] family from north Malabar with a mercantile background, was educated at [[Government Brennen College, Thalassery|Tellicherry Brennen College]] and Mohammedans College, [[Madras]]. He was elected to the [[Madras Legislative Council]] from a Muslim seat in 1923. He was re-elected to the legislative council in 1926 (as a [[Indian National Congress|Congress]] member supported by the [[Swaraj Party]]). He is said to have maintained "tenuous and cautious" links with the [[Khilafat movement|Khilafat Movement]] at this time.<ref name=":3" /> He was later elected to the [[Imperial Legislative Assembly]] from West Coast and Nilgiris, Muhammadan (1930).<ref name=":3">{{Cite book|last=McPherson|first=Kenneth|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RNvfCgAAQBAJ&q=How+Best+Do+We+Survive|title=A Modern Political History of the Tamil Muslims|publisher=Routledge|year=2010|isbn=978-1-136-19834-2|location=New Delhi|pages=137, 142–43 and 166|language=en}}</ref>

Along with [[K. M. Seethi Saheb]], [[B. Pocker]] and [[M. Mohammed Ismail]], Uppi Saheb was one of the principal leaders of [[All-India Muslim League]] in [[Madras Presidency]] from the mid-1930s.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":2" /> After the partition of India in 1947, the All-India Muslim League was succeeded by [[Indian Union Muslim League]] (1951) in the new Dominion of India.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|date=2019-04-06|title=Explained: History of Muslim League in Kerala and India|url=https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/explained-the-history-of-muslim-league-in-kerala-and-india-5660839/|access-date=2019-08-04|website=The Indian Express|language=en-IN}}</ref><ref name=":0" />

He served as the Assembly Leader of the [[Indian Union Muslim League|Muslim League]] (ML) in [[Madras Legislative Assembly]].<ref name=":0" /> He later ceased to be a Member of the Assembly on the re-organization of States.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Madras Legislative Assembly (1952-1957)|url=http://www.assembly.tn.gov.in/archive/1st_1952/Review_1-52-57.pdf}}</ref>

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[[Category:Indian Union Muslim League politicians]]
[[Category:1891 births]]
[[Category:1973 deaths]]

K. Uppi Saheb - Revision history

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