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The senior Rani of Nilamburi and over 2000 women who suffer from the moplah
outbreak have forwarded a memorandum to the countess of Reading in which
they set forth the cruelties to which they have been subjected and point
out that their homes have been destroyed their bread winners killed, their
property looted and cattle slaughtered.
They say they would not be human if they could ever forget the cruel and
shameful outrages and indignities perpetrated upon them by a race with whom
they have always endeaveared to be friendly and neighbourly. They would be
hypocritical if, robbed of all their possessions they did not plead for
some measure of compensation to help them out of the pauperism now forced
upon them. They would be imbecile if knowing ungovernable anti-social
propensities and the deadly religious fanticism of the Moplah race if they
did not entreat the government to protect the lives and honour of their
sisters who have to live in the rebel-ravaged zone. Their ambition is to
obtain sufficient compensation to save them from starvation and military
protection against massacre and outrage.
They ask her ladyship to exercise all the influence she possesses with the
government to see that their prayers are granted. But if the Government
does not consider it possible to compensate them and protect them in their
native land they pray that free grants of land may be assigned to them in
some neighbouring region, which though less blessed with the lavish gifts
of nature may also be less cursed by the cruelty and brutality of man.
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