At the end of September 1854, Aroonachella Moodelly (Arunchala Mudali), a weaver and cultivator hailing from Teroovumanulloor village in Cuddalore Zilla (now a district) was returning home from a neighbouring village. Someone told him the peons and talliars ( thaliari or village official) were already at his doorstep. They had ill-treated his brother Narrainsawmy and also the women in the family.

A case of theft

When he was away, there was a robbery in the house of another inhabitant Sudr Ameen. For some reason, the suspicion had fallen on him. Aroonachella Moodelly was afraid to go home. He then went to Cuddalore and complained to Maltby, the Collector, who referred him to the tahsildar Soobba Royer (Subbarayar). He headed to meet the tahsildar, whose office was about “three-quarters

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