K. Uppi Saheb, or Kottal Uppi Saheb Bahadur, (1891–1972) was an Indian politician and social worker from

Kannur Kannur (), formerly known in English as Cannanore, is a city and a municipal corporation in the state of Kerala, India. It is the administrative headquarters of the Kannur district and situated north of the major port city and commercial hu ...

, north

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. Kottal Uppi, from an elite Mappila family from north Malabar with a mercantile background, was educated at Tellicherry Brennen College and Mohammedans College,

Madras Chennai (, ), formerly known as Madras ( the official name until 1996), is the capital city of Tamil Nadu, the southernmost Indian state. The largest city of the state in area and population, Chennai is located on the Coromandel Coast of th ...

. He was elected to the

Madras Legislative Council Tamil Nadu Legislative Council was the upper house of the former bicameral legislature of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It began its existence as Madras Legislative Council, the first provincial legislature for Madras Presidency. It was initia ...

from a Muslim seat in 1923. He was re-elected to the legislative council in 1926 (as a

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member supported by the

Swaraj Party The Swaraj Party, established as the ''Congress-Khilafat Swaraj Party'', was a political party formed in India on 1 January 1923 after the Gaya annual conference in December 1922 of the National Congress, that sought greater self-government and ...

). He is said to have maintained "tenuous and cautious" links with the

Khilafat Movement The Khilafat Movement (1919–24), also known as the Caliphate movement or the Indian Muslim movement, was a pan-Islamist political protest campaign launched by Muslims of British India led by Shaukat Ali, Maulana Mohammad Ali Jauhar, Hakim Ajma ...

at this time. He was later elected to the Imperial Legislative Assembly from West Coast and Nilgiris, Muhammadan (1930). Along with

K. M. Seethi Saheb K. M. Seethi Sahib (1899—1961), born K. M. Seethi, was an Indian politician and community leader from Kerala. He served as the Speaker of Kerala Assembly during 1960-61 ( Pattom A. Thanu Pillai Ministry). Seethi Sahib, born in 1899 in an aff ...

, B. Pocker and M. Mohammed Ismail, Uppi Saheb was one of the principal leaders of All-India Muslim League in

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from the mid-1930s. After the partition of India in 1947, the All-India Muslim League was succeeded by

Indian Union Muslim League The Indian Union Muslim League (abbreviated as the I. U. M. L. or the League) is an Indian political party primarily based in the Indian state of Kerala. It is recognised as a State Party in Kerala by the Election Commission of India. The first ...

(1951) in the new Dominion of India. He served as the Assembly Leader of the Muslim League (ML) in

Madras Legislative Assembly The Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly is the unicameral legislature of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It has a strength of 234 members of whom are democratically elected using the First-past-the-post system. The presiding officer of the Assembl ...

. He later ceased to be a Member of the Assembly on the re-organization of States.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Uppi Saheb, K. Indian Union Muslim League politicians 1891 births 1973 deaths