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in rioting cases, 68 cases being directly attributed to it.
In several cases the police had to use hre-arms to disperse
the mob. The patience and integrity of the whole force
during this time was of the same high standard as it was
under the even more exhausting and prolonged test of the
Civil Disobedience movement nine years later.
In 1926 communal tension resulted in riots in Akola,
Yeotmal, Buldana, Amraoti, Chhindwara, and Wardha, the
most serious occurring at Arvi, in the last district, where
three Muhammadans were battered to death.
This tension became more acute in 1927, when there
was anxiety in nearly every district in the province, and
serious outbreaks of rioting in several. In Nagpur the
outbreak was appalling, resulting in 24 murders, 5 attempted
murders, 1 culpable homicide, 18 riots and 91 other offences
of arson, assault, etc. The military had to be called in to
help to restore order. There were also riots at Jubbulpore
and Basim. The Nagpur police had also to deal with Awari's
Arms Act Satyagraha, a feeble and foolish movement,
but with potential dangers in it from a hot weather city mob
easily worked up to mischief. In this year the increase
in satta gambling became a matter of concern.
About this time, year by year, the number of bogus
trading and loan companies increased tremendously, as well
as the old note-duplicating trick and others of that kind.
No one knows how much money is transferred yearly from
the pockets of the unwary to those of clever scoundrels.
In 1929 one party of Jogi Pathans got away with Rs. 30,000 in
the Wardha district alone before they were brought to book,
while in another case a lawyer Member of the Legislative
Council was induced to part with Rs. 7, 800.
1930 was an eventful year. It started with a strike on
the Great Indian Peninsula Railway, and continued with the
Civil Disobedience movement in its various forms, leading
often to open violence and rioting. In this year alone there
were 4,812 convictions for offences connected with this
movement, and one policemen was killed and 145 others
injured in suppressing it. In no less than nine districts were
punitive police imposed.
Ordinary crime was not alfected by the movement
but at the very end of the year, a serious agrarian outbreak
started in the Buldana district, the labourers and tenants
against the landowners and money-lenders. A tremendous
amount of damage was done in the short time the outbreak
was;permitted to last, many houses being looted and burnt
in rioting cases, 68 cases being directly attributed to it.
In several cases the police had to use hre-arms to disperse
the mob. The patience and integrity of the whole force
during this time was of the same high standard as it was
under the even more exhausting and prolonged test of the
Civil Disobedience movement nine years later.
In 1926 communal tension resulted in riots in Akola,
Yeotmal, Buldana, Amraoti, Chhindwara, and Wardha, the
most serious occurring at Arvi, in the last district, where
three Muhammadans were battered to death.
This tension became more acute in 1927, when there
was anxiety in nearly every district in the province, and
serious outbreaks of rioting in several. In Nagpur the
outbreak was appalling, resulting in 24 murders, 5 attempted
murders, 1 culpable homicide, 18 riots and 91 other offences
of arson, assault, etc. The military had to be called in to
help to restore order. There were also riots at Jubbulpore
and Basim. The Nagpur police had also to deal with Awari's
Arms Act Satyagraha, a feeble and foolish movement,
but with potential dangers in it from a hot weather city mob
easily worked up to mischief. In this year the increase
in satta gambling became a matter of concern.
About this time, year by year, the number of bogus
trading and loan companies increased tremendously, as well
as the old note-duplicating trick and others of that kind.
No one knows how much money is transferred yearly from
the pockets of the unwary to those of clever scoundrels.
In 1929 one party of Jogi Pathans got away with Rs. 30,000 in
the Wardha district alone before they were brought to book,
while in another case a lawyer Member of the Legislative
Council was induced to part with Rs. 7, 800.
1930 was an eventful year. It started with a strike on
the Great Indian Peninsula Railway, and continued with the
Civil Disobedience movement in its various forms, leading
often to open violence and rioting. In this year alone there
were 4,812 convictions for offences connected with this
movement, and one policemen was killed and 145 others
injured in suppressing it. In no less than nine districts were
punitive police imposed.
Ordinary crime was not alfected by the movement
but at the very end of the year, a serious agrarian outbreak
started in the Buldana district, the labourers and tenants
against the landowners and money-lenders. A tremendous
amount of damage was done in the short time the outbreak
was;permitted to last, many houses being looted and burnt