The Kundara Proclamation of 1809, calling the people to rise against the British resident, was issued by

The correct answer is A, Velu Thampi Dalawa, the Dalawa or prime minister of Travancore. The subsidiary treaty with the Company had placed a crushing payment on Travancore and given its resident wide powers; Velu Thampi issued the Kundara Proclamation in 1809 asking the people of the state to take up arms. B is wrong because Veerapandya Kattabomman of Panchalankurichi was a Poligar chief of Tirunelveli who was hanged in 1799, ten years earlier. C is wrong because Haji Shariatullah founded the Faraizi movement among the Muslim peasants of Faridpur in eastern Bengal. D is wrong because Syed Ahmad Barelvi of Rae Bareli shaped the Wahabi movement in India, whose Indian centre was Patna. The rising was crushed in the same year, 1809, and Velu Thampi did not survive it; the Company tightened the resident's control over Travancore afterwards.