Articles

On March 30, 1837, an agrarian mob of about 500 Kodavas armed with matchlocks, sticks, and bill-hooks ( coithas ), collected at Puttur,...

1. A “native” The following is a summary of a letter written by an eye witness to his father of the events at Mangalore, on April 5th and...

Regulation 20 of 1802: Statute of Treasons under which Indians were attainted for their lives in the Presidency of Madras   This...

“The consultation to attack Bellarypet was held at Moodnoor, in Soolya, by K. Ramiah Gowda, the principal man, several Potails, and all...

This account is from a letter written by one of the ladies who escaped from Mangalore. [1]   The night of the 3rd April was passed with...

F C Brown’s father was Murdoch Brown (1750-1828), a Scotsman and first British landlord in Malabar, known as the Valia Saheb (big lord)...

When Brown attempted to discover “the causes of the disturbances there; to the complaints and grievances which drove a simple, quiet,...

Describing himself as a British subject, a landholder, and a Justice of the Peace, Brown wrote to the governor that the “feelings which...

Brown was in Tellicherry when fugitives from South Kanara first brought news of the disturbances there. On April 3rd, one of them, a...

Koot  or koota  in Kannada means a union or assembly. In the context of peasant uprisings of 1830-31, 1837, it refers to the union or...

Brown made his case before Court of Directors of the East India Company directly in London on July 2, 1838. He hoped that a prima facie...

1. On August 31, 1837, the Second Judge, Western Division, Mangalore, petitioned the governor to review his severe reprimand of...

The following two newspaper accounts give an idea of the hazy notions that reached England of the uprising, and which helped form public...

amani talav: artificial ponds not belonging to any specific village  amildar: Indian officer in charge of a taluk, head of police, and...

Betel Leaf Cultivation   Betel leaf vines were grown on red stony soil on a slope, and irrigated from tanks or wells using a yatam ....

These are excerpts from a talk at XHRC Goa, 2014 Goa’s Christian population remained static (around 180,000) for a full century between...

Talk delivered at Xavier Centre of Historical Research, Povorim, Goa, 2016     Haidar Ali’s and Tipu Sultan’s policy towards Goa and...

A Spanish frigate Rey la Deseada docked in Mangalore on April 7, 1776, and departed on March 25, 1777. Documents in an archive in Madrid...

Dominating the entrance room of the museum of St Aloysius College, Mangalore, is a life size wooden statue of Our Lady of the Rosary....

The 1635 map of the Portuguese fort settlement in Mangalore appears in Antonio Bocarro’s Livro das plantas de todas as fortalezas,...