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The Car and the Palanquin: Rival Accounts of the 1895 Riot in Kalugumalai, South India

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 1999

Anthony Good
Anthony Good
Affiliation:
University of Edinburgh
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Abstract

The 1895 riot at Kalugumalai in the Tirunelveli District of Madras Presidency, South India, pitted the local Nadar community, then newly-converted to Roman Catholicism, against the main Hindu castes of Kalugumalai, particularly those associated with its Hindu temple and the Ettaiyapuram zamindari estate within which the town lay. It was the violent climax to a long-running dispute over the Nadars' right to take processions through the main streets, and one of the bloodiest episodes in a conflict which posed a severe threat to public order throughout South India in the late nineteenth century.

Type
Research Article
Information
Modern Asian Studies , Volume 33 , Issue 1 , January 1999 , pp. 23 - 65
Copyright
© 1999 Cambridge University Press

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