STORM OVBR MALKANGIRI . 65 strong unity from below. Out of the twenty-two people arrested in connection with the anti-war slogans in the district there were tribals, non-tribals and out 62. Interview with Krushna Chandra Bisoi, Jeypore. 63. Interview; Kausalya. 64. Nanda, op. cit., pp. 72-76 ; and, Sanganna, op, cit., p. 250. 65. CPLN, op. cit., and, Mahtab and De (ed ), History of the Freedom Movement in Orissa, Vol. IV, (Cuttack, 1957), p. 91. 66. SC (Sessions Court) No. 18/1942, 'Judgement in Late Laxman Naik Case*; I am grateful to the Collector, Koraput district for allowing me to use this document. 67. Mahtab and De (ed.). Vol. IV. op. cit., p. 91 point to the fact that these people were 'armed* with saplings, cudgels and lathis, forgetting that it is a very common practice for people to move about 'armed* in this way in the forest tracts. In ibid, vol. V, it is mentioned that: The property of Messrs H. Doar & Co.. who had the contract for the supply of sleepers was made a target of attack' (P. 87). 68. This part is based on CPLN, op. cit.; I am narrating the various events in the sequence they are mentioned. 69. This characterisation matches perfectly with that of Mahtab and DC. (cd.) vol. IV, op. cit, p. 91. 70. Patros and Bisois are mostly non-tribals. 71. The Nuagaon and Malipara events reflect on the type of people who formed the crowds and the obvious fact that they were not rowdies or criminals. 72. His name suggests that he was most probably a kumuti. His name itself conveys how a person who was most probably from coastal Andhra pradesh (S. Chandrasekhar is a Telugu name), perhaps sought to re-adjust in Orissa (Pattnaik is an Oriya title) to carry on his activities. 73. This again shows the motive of the crowd. 74. SC no. 18/1942, ap. cit, 75. Nityananda Das, 'Martyr Laxman Naik : A Hero of the Freedom Movement', Adivasi, Vol. IX, No. 1, April 1967, p. 24. 76. Mahtab and De (ed.), vol. V, op, cit., p. 88. 77. SC no. 18/1942, op. cit.; and the Patna High Court Decision cited by Mahtab and De (ed.) Vol. IV, op. cit., pp. 44-48 (appendix). 78. Nityananda Das, op. cit., p. 25 ; Sanganna, op. cit., p. 252, mentions about the attempt to hoist the flag ; Laxman in a letter signed by him, mentioned how these people were eager to court arrest; cited by Pujari, op. cit., p. 20. Interview : Gopinath Pujari, matched with this evidence. 79. Nanda, op. cit., p. 93. Several people were also injured. 80. For details of repression see Biswasroi, op. cit., p. 26. It may be worth mentioning here that the Malkangiri treasury was nearly forty-five kilometres away. 81. Patna High Court Decision, op. cit. 82. See, for example, Bipan Chandra, Nationalism and Colonialism in Modern India (New Delhi, 1979). As he puts it: "Nationalism helped to arouse the peasant and awaken him to his own needs ... Nationalism helped the peasant roove-meRt to 'stand on its feet*,. ," (p. 345),