COLONIAL STATE OF MALABAR 65 78 W Logan, (ed.) A Collection of Treaties, Engagements and other Papers of Importance Relating to British Affairs in Malabar, Madras, 1951, 150. 73 Kerala Varma to Wilkinson, 23 December 1796, MCRD 1723/TA. 38. 8J Graeme*s Report MCRD 4033/TA. 53. 81 The terms "layer of authority" and "displacement" are borrowed from Low, op cit. 88 This is a point which as we have already seen has been very much stressed by Usman, op cit 63 Sheffield to Board of Revenue, 31 August 1829, MGRD 4941/TA. 84 Richards to Board of Revenue, 17 June 1803, MCRD/TA. pp 71—72. 85 Alavi, op cit.) Kumar, op cit. 99 Gough, op cit. 8T This was a paramilitary police unit established by Capt. Watson to put down Moplah disturbances in the first decade of British rule in Malabar. I have dealt with Moplah disturbances of this period in section three of the third chapter of my thesis, op cit, 88 Dale, op cit. Moplah rebellions of the 1830s and after differed fundamentally from those that ended in 1803 or thereabouts. See Swai, op cit., and C Wood, ^The first Moplah rebellion against British rule in Malabar", Modern Asian Studies, 10, 1976. 89 Wolfe, op cit. w See Marks, "Study of the Zulu rebellion," op cit. 91 REFrykenberg ^Elite Groups in a South Indian District: 1788—1858", JoMrna/ of Asian Studies, XXIV, 1964—65. pp 261-262. 98 Quoted in ibid. 93 Depelchin, op cit. 94 Ibid. 95 Swai, "Myth and Reality of the Empiricism of Colonial Empires...", op cit.