. Our troubles in Poona and the Deccan by Arthur Crawford. With numerous illus. by Horace Van Ruith . t notable memorial previous to theJubilee murders, which certain members of Parliament citedas proving that the people of Poona had been driven todesperation by the plague operations. The signatory wasafterwards stated by the eccentric member for Banffshireto belong to one of the richest mercantile firms in theCity (which was inaccurate) and to possess great influence(which he does not). The Pooh-pooh Swamys have noinfluence and represent nobody. The Moodliars settled inPoona as Commissariat a
. Our troubles in Poona and the Deccan by Arthur Crawford. With numerous illus. by Horace Van Ruith . t notable memorial previous to theJubilee murders, which certain members of Parliament citedas proving that the people of Poona had been driven todesperation by the plague operations. The signatory wasafterwards stated by the eccentric member for Banffshireto belong to one of the richest mercantile firms in theCity (which was inaccurate) and to possess great influence(which he does not). The Pooh-pooh Swamys have noinfluence and represent nobody. The Moodliars settled inPoona as Commissariat and Military Transport Contractors,in which capacities they did excellent service, and amassedmoderate fortunes. They are kindly, charitable, easy-going,anxious to show public spirit, but, lacking backbone, they arecertain to be fooled by local agitators, like others who cannot. 238 OUR TROUBLES IN POONA AND THE DECCAN like them, plead ignorance. It was crafty, Brahmin-like of thePoena Sabha to get this signature as one of the five membersof the Memorial Committee; but the falsity of this document. THE MOODLIAR. has been so thoroughly established that further referenceto it would be like flogging a dead mule. THE IZRAILIES. They are commonly called Talees because they are,throughout Western India, mainly engaged in oil (Tale) THE LOST TRIBE OF IZRAEL. 239 pressing. As a matter of fact they are Jews, belonging,it is supposed, to the lost tribe of Izrael who, somehow,found their way first to Cochin on the Malabar coast, andthen spread over the country. There is a tolerably largecommunity of them in the City of Poona, who do not by
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