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A JOURNEY FROM MADRAS THROUGH
Invasion by
the Coorg
Rdjd.
CHAPTER called Tambans, have no right to the succession. The eldest daughter
in the female line cohabits with a Tulava Brahman ; her sons become
Rajas, and her eldest daughter continues the line of the family.
Whenever she pleases, she changes her Brahman. The younger
daughters also cohabit with Brahmans, and produce a race of people
called Bayllal, who have no right to the succession. The dominions
of this familv extended from the Chandra-girl river to that on the
north side of Cumly, and produced an annual revenue of 15,000
Ikeri Pagodas, or 6044/. 3s. 4d. The Rajdlhes now in the country ;
but he has neither lands nor authority. Before the last war he lived
at Tellichery, on a pension from the Company; which has been
doubled since we got possession of the country of his ancestors.
The interior parts are said to be naturally very fertile in rice,
but they suffered much in the last war. The Coorg lldjd, during
the siege of Seringapatam, under pretence of assisting the English,
made an incursion into the country, and swept away all the inha-
bitants that he could seize. He has given them possessions in his
own country; but they are very desirous of returning home,
although I do not hear that he uses them ill.
The people of Tulava, although longer subjected to a foreign
yoke than those of Malabar, never have been so entirely subdued
as the greater part of the Hindus, and have always been able suc-
cessfulty to resist the pretensions of their governors to be pro-
prietors of the soil. Their native chiefs have, indeed, been in
general able to retain more or less of the management of the
country; and on the fall of Seringapatam, I am here informed, were
very much disposed to try how far they could assert their inde-
pendence. Two months are said to have elapsed, after the arrival
of Major Monro in the country, before that gentleman could induce
the people to meet him for the purpose of settling the revenue; but
the deeisive measures adopted to punish all those who presumed to
disturb the peace, an assumed severity of manner to prevent the
hopes of success from cajolery, and a strict forbearance from
State of the
natives in
Tulava.
il"fciiii»-MiM I-.K
■--■•-- - ■ ■ r~-
IS
A JOURNEY FROM MADRAS THROUGH
Invasion by
the Coorg
Rdjd.
CHAPTER called Tambans, have no right to the succession. The eldest daughter
in the female line cohabits with a Tulava Brahman ; her sons become
Rajas, and her eldest daughter continues the line of the family.
Whenever she pleases, she changes her Brahman. The younger
daughters also cohabit with Brahmans, and produce a race of people
called Bayllal, who have no right to the succession. The dominions
of this familv extended from the Chandra-girl river to that on the
north side of Cumly, and produced an annual revenue of 15,000
Ikeri Pagodas, or 6044/. 3s. 4d. The Rajdlhes now in the country ;
but he has neither lands nor authority. Before the last war he lived
at Tellichery, on a pension from the Company; which has been
doubled since we got possession of the country of his ancestors.
The interior parts are said to be naturally very fertile in rice,
but they suffered much in the last war. The Coorg lldjd, during
the siege of Seringapatam, under pretence of assisting the English,
made an incursion into the country, and swept away all the inha-
bitants that he could seize. He has given them possessions in his
own country; but they are very desirous of returning home,
although I do not hear that he uses them ill.
The people of Tulava, although longer subjected to a foreign
yoke than those of Malabar, never have been so entirely subdued
as the greater part of the Hindus, and have always been able suc-
cessfulty to resist the pretensions of their governors to be pro-
prietors of the soil. Their native chiefs have, indeed, been in
general able to retain more or less of the management of the
country; and on the fall of Seringapatam, I am here informed, were
very much disposed to try how far they could assert their inde-
pendence. Two months are said to have elapsed, after the arrival
of Major Monro in the country, before that gentleman could induce
the people to meet him for the purpose of settling the revenue; but
the deeisive measures adopted to punish all those who presumed to
disturb the peace, an assumed severity of manner to prevent the
hopes of success from cajolery, and a strict forbearance from
State of the
natives in
Tulava.
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