This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1878 Excerpt: ...that time Coorg has been at peace. The Coorgs were most abundantly praised by Government for their loyalty, and in recognition of their services lis. 20,000 of the recaptured treasure were ordered to be divided amongst those employed on the expedition. But they begged that they might be honoured with other distinctions ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1878 Excerpt: ...that time Coorg has been at peace. The Coorgs were most abundantly praised by Government for their loyalty, and in recognition of their services lis. 20,000 of the recaptured treasure were ordered to be divided amongst those employed on the expedition. But they begged that they might be honoured with other distinctions in lieu; consequently they were rewarded with jaghir lands to a great extent, and pensions for three generations, with horses, gold and silver medals, and broad cloth, according to their merits, or perhaps to the different degrees of relationship and friendship in which they stood to the Divans. Tbe Coorg medal, in gold, weighs 7 tolas without the chain and 11 i tolas with, and is two inches in diameter. On one side it represents a Coorg warrior in fighting attitude, and on the other it bears, round a wreath which encircles the Coorg knives--the picha-katti and the udu-Jcatti--the following inscription in English: 'For distinguished conduct and loyalty to the British Government Coorg, April 1837.' The same inscription in Canarese is given on the reverse side. During the Mutiny in 1857, the Coorgs enjoyed the confidence of the Local Government to such a degree, that after its suppression Sir Mark Cubbon, the Chief Commissioner, issued to them the following Notification, in English and Canarese, bearing at its head a medallion representing a Coorg in his full array as a warrior. Notification. 2Qth February 1861. In consideration of the exalted honour, loyalty and intrepidity characteristic of this little nation of warriors, and in recollection of its conspicuous services in aid of the British Government, it is my pleasing duty to notify hereby for general information, in virtue of the power vested in me by the Government of India, that the prov...
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