PEASANTS UP IN ARMS
LAND TAXES IN ALWAR
CALCUTTA, 26th November. A serious situation has arisen in Alwar State, Central India, where the peasants in 100 villages are refusing to pay land revenue to the Maharajah. Resisters, including hundreds who served in the Great "War, armed themselves with ancient rifles and muskets and destroyed roads and barricaded passes leading to their villages, defying the tax collectors.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 129, 28 November 1932, Page 7
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66PEASANTS UP IN ARMS Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 129, 28 November 1932, Page 7
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