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A JOURNEY FROM MADRAS THROUGH
CHAPTER XIII.
JOURNEY THROUGH THE NORTHERN PART OF MALABAR.
CHAPTER
XIII.
J
Jan. 1, 1801,
Inland Mop*
lays.
Rice-ground
and land-tax.
ANUARY 1st, 1801.—In the morning I went nine miles to Tama-
rachery. The country resembles that which I came through
yesterday, but much of it is waste. At Tamarachery there was a
house belonging to the Pychi Rajas ; and as it was on the road to
one of the principal passes leading up to Kamata, Tippoo established
in its neighbourhood a strong colony of the ruffian Moplays ; and,
until lately, a constant petty warfare has been continued between
them and the Nalrs. A detachment of Sepoys are now in possession
of the house, and preserve the peace; but so odious are they
to the Mussulmans, who are the only traders in the country, that
it is with great difficulty that they can purchase the absolute neces-
saries of life. The town (Bazar) here contains about fifty shops.
During the Mussulman government it had good trade; but the
rebellion in TVynaadlv&s put a stop to all legal commerce. I believe,
however, that there is much smuggling.
Almost the whole of the lands in the Tamarachery district now
belong to Moplay mortgagees (Canumcars), who give nothing to the
original lords of the soil. These Moplays say, that about one half of
their low rice ground (D/ianmurry) produces annually two crops,
and that the increase in one crop varies from 5 to 10 seeds, which
I estimate at from 9TV to 18-j%- bushels an acre. They say also,
that when they sell the rice at the cheap season, in order to pay the
land-tax, it requires about three-sixteenths of the produce to enable
them to discharge the amount
A JOURNEY FROM MADRAS THROUGH
CHAPTER XIII.
JOURNEY THROUGH THE NORTHERN PART OF MALABAR.
CHAPTER
XIII.
J
Jan. 1, 1801,
Inland Mop*
lays.
Rice-ground
and land-tax.
ANUARY 1st, 1801.—In the morning I went nine miles to Tama-
rachery. The country resembles that which I came through
yesterday, but much of it is waste. At Tamarachery there was a
house belonging to the Pychi Rajas ; and as it was on the road to
one of the principal passes leading up to Kamata, Tippoo established
in its neighbourhood a strong colony of the ruffian Moplays ; and,
until lately, a constant petty warfare has been continued between
them and the Nalrs. A detachment of Sepoys are now in possession
of the house, and preserve the peace; but so odious are they
to the Mussulmans, who are the only traders in the country, that
it is with great difficulty that they can purchase the absolute neces-
saries of life. The town (Bazar) here contains about fifty shops.
During the Mussulman government it had good trade; but the
rebellion in TVynaadlv&s put a stop to all legal commerce. I believe,
however, that there is much smuggling.
Almost the whole of the lands in the Tamarachery district now
belong to Moplay mortgagees (Canumcars), who give nothing to the
original lords of the soil. These Moplays say, that about one half of
their low rice ground (D/ianmurry) produces annually two crops,
and that the increase in one crop varies from 5 to 10 seeds, which
I estimate at from 9TV to 18-j%- bushels an acre. They say also,
that when they sell the rice at the cheap season, in order to pay the
land-tax, it requires about three-sixteenths of the produce to enable
them to discharge the amount