Civil Disobedience in Indian Tradition, with Some Early Nineteenth Century Documents c5.s1.t5.2

c5.s1.t5.2

The day before yesterday, being Monday, the 30th September, the collection was to have commenced but on the appearance of the *tahsildar*, they one and all shut up shops and houses. Yesterday, the officers of Government were unable to make any progress in their business, and in the evening while I was driving out in my carriage, several thousands of the inhabitants were standing on either side of the road. They neither committed nor offered any violence, but poured forth complaints of the hardness of their situation, and clamorously declared their inability to pay the tax. (p. 109)