Vellaloor massacre
1767 CE.
Shown on the map at 10.000°, 78.433°.
The Vellaloor massacre refers to the killing of nearly 5000 people of the Kallar clan at the Vellalore village near Melur Taluk in what is now the Madurai District in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. The massacre was ordered by the Nawab of the Carnatic to a "Captain Rumley" in charge of his army. The murder of the Indigenous people occurred, as they refused to pay taxes to the Nawab. The carnage is recorded in a 1835 magazine. "the Nabob sent a detachment, under the command of Captain Rumley, consisting of five battalions of Native infantry and 1,500 cavalry. This force encamped at Maloor; and, after a fortnight, Captain Rumley summoned the Nattaurs. They would not appear; indeed, they continued to manifest their licentious character and contemptuously slighted the detachment. In consequence of this, Captain Rumley marched to Vellaloor naud; and, having caused the village to be surrounded, he required the principal Nattaurs to surrender. But, as the whole of the Colleries persevered and were preparing for hostility, using insulting language and brandishing their weapons within the hedge which surrounded the village, Captain Rumley ordered the hedge to be set on fire.
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