Civil Disobedience in Indian Tradition, with Some Early Nineteenth Century Documents c5.20

c5.20

The painters and others gathered at St.Thoma having sent several letters to the several casts of Gentues in town, and to several in the Company's service as dubasses, cherucons or chief peons, merchants, washers and others and threatened several to murther them if they came not out to them, now they stopt goods and provisions coming to town throwing the cloth off of the oxen and laying the dury, and in all the towns about us hired by Pedda Yenkatadry, etc: the drum has beaten forbidding all people to carry any provisions or wood to Chenapatnam alias Madraspatnam and the men's houses that burnt chunam for us are tyed up and they forbid to burn any more, or to gather more shells for that purpose.¹⁶