TAX COLLECTORS DEFIED
ALWAR SITUATION SERIOUS
PEASANTS IN FIGHTING SPIRIT
ROAD COMMUNICATION CUT
BRITISH INQUIRY DEMANDED
By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.
Rec. 10 p.m. Calcutta, Nov. 28. The agrarian situation in Alwar State, Central India, where peasants in 100 villages are refusing to pay land revenue to the Maharajah, is assuming serious proportions. Thousands of armed Hindu and Moslem peasants of splendid physique and in fighting spirit are concentrating in the area of 32 square miles to repel the State tax-gatherers. The roads by which lorries are bringing troops have been made impassable, the passes being blocked by huge boulders. At intervals along the hills remote from the towns are watchers to give warning of the approach of troops or revenue collectors.
The peasants are demanding an inquiry into their grievances under the chairmanship of an Englishman from British India.
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Taranaki Daily News, 30 November 1932, Page 7
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138TAX COLLECTORS DEFIED Taranaki Daily News, 30 November 1932, Page 7
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