Interestingly, the RSS itself was largely formed in response to the 1921-1922 Moplah Riots and 1923 Nagpur Riots. Dr. B.S. Moonje personally traveled to Kozhikode, met with Zamorin and families that had been targeted, and interviewed victims. Moonje then compiled the firsthand testimonies regarding forced conversion, massacres, and desecration of Hindu temples into publicized reports. He concluded that the Moplah Rebellion was not simply an agrarian or anti-British revolt, but rather a communal riot. During this time, Keshav Baliram Hedgewar (who would later found the RSS) was prosecuted for sedition due to his speeches delivered against British colonial rule and was serving a prison sentence at the time. After Hedgewar was released from prison, he read B.S. Moonje's report and was deeply moved. A few months later, he personally witnessed the 1923 Nagpur riots and even joined B.S. Moonje and "Raja" Lakshmanrao Bhonsle in the Dindi Satyagraha challenging British colonial restrictions on Dindi Yatra. This experience reinforced his belief that Hindu disunity (due to caste divisions, regional loyalties, internal rivalries, etc.) prevented Hindus from responding collectively to the more "united" Muslims and therefore made Hindus vulnerable to communal attacks from Muslims in spite their numerical majority. This observation eventually led him to found the RSS on Vijayadashami in 1925. Interestingly, Malayali Communist E. M. S. Namboodiripad (who was only 12 years old in 1921) would later classify the Moplah Riots as a "fine example of an agrarian political mass movement" even though his own family had to relocate to Irinjalakuda after their home was threatened. Even Jaffrelot admits that the Mappila Riots and the wider Khilafat movement played a not insignificant role in the emergence of Hindu nationalism: