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On March 30, 1837, an agrarian mob of about 500 Kodavas armed with matchlocks, sticks, and bill-hooks ( coithas ), collected at Puttur,...

1. A “native” The following is a summary of a letter written by an eye witness to his father of the events at Mangalore, on April 5th and...

Regulation 20 of 1802: Statute of Treasons under which Indians were attainted for their lives in the Presidency of Madras   This...

“The consultation to attack Bellarypet was held at Moodnoor, in Soolya, by K. Ramiah Gowda, the principal man, several Potails, and all...

This account is from a letter written by one of the ladies who escaped from Mangalore. [1]   The night of the 3rd April was passed with...

F C Brown’s father was Murdoch Brown (1750-1828), a Scotsman and first British landlord in Malabar, known as the Valia Saheb (big lord)...

When Brown attempted to discover “the causes of the disturbances there; to the complaints and grievances which drove a simple, quiet,...

Describing himself as a British subject, a landholder, and a Justice of the Peace, Brown wrote to the governor that the “feelings which...

Brown was in Tellicherry when fugitives from South Kanara first brought news of the disturbances there. On April 3rd, one of them, a...

Koot  or koota  in Kannada means a union or assembly. In the context of peasant uprisings of 1830-31, 1837, it refers to the union or...

Brown made his case before Court of Directors of the East India Company directly in London on July 2, 1838. He hoped that a prima facie...

1. On August 31, 1837, the Second Judge, Western Division, Mangalore, petitioned the governor to review his severe reprimand of...

The following two newspaper accounts give an idea of the hazy notions that reached England of the uprising, and which helped form public...