3. In this connection the leaders of the Mahomedan community could do much to assist the cause of law and order by explaining to the people that the tabut processions and _tolis_ are in no way necessary to the religious celebration of the Moharram. Government have received information that for many years Kâzis in Sind have been issuing _fatwâs_ inveighing against the degradation of the mourning ceremony into processions of jesters and mountebanks, and that in the town of Sujāwal the people have themselves put a stop to all tabut processions.
_By order of His Excellency the Honourable the Governor-in-Council_,
[1] Charles II transferred Bombay to the E.I. Company in 1668.
[2] Gazetteer of Bombay City and Island, Vol. II. 238.
[3] Gazetteer of Bombay City and Island, Vol. II, pp. 65 ff.
[4] R. and O. Strachey, _Keigwin’s Rebellion_, p. 19 and App. E.
[5] The letter of December 15, 1673, from Aungier and Council mentions these as some of the chief classes of Hindus in Bombay.
[6] R. and O. Strachey, _Keigwin’s Rebellion_, p. 41.
[8] Bombay Gazetteer, Vol. XXVI. (Materials), Part III, p. 8.
[9] Bombay Gazetteer, Vol. XXVI, Part iii, p. 8.
[10] Gazetteer of Bombay City and Island, Vol. II, p. 238.
[11] Rev. F. Ovington, _Voyage to Suratt in 1689_. London, 1696.
[12] P. B. Malabari, _Bombay in the Making_, p. 437.
[13] Ibid. p. 465. _Vereador_ means procurator or attorney. The _Vereador_ wore a gown as Vereador da Camera or member of a town council (Da Cunha).
[14] Gazetteer of Bombay City and Island, Vol. II, p. 212.
[15] Bombay Gazetteer, Vol. XXVI, Part iii, pp. 8 ff.
[16] P. B. Malabari, _Bombay in the Making_, p. 287.
[17] Warden’s Report in W. H. Morley, _Analytical Digest of Cases decided in the Supreme Court of Judicature_ (London, 1849), Vol. II, p. 458.
[18] W. H. Morley, _Digest etc._, Vol. II (Warden’s Report); Bombay Gazetteer, Vol. XXVI, iii.
[19] General Wedderburn was killed at the storming of Broach in November, 1772.
[20] The fact that it was called the Bhandari militia implies that the Native Christian element had largely disappeared, and that Bhandaris and other Hindus of the lower classes formed the bulk of the force.
[21] Bombay Gazetteer, Vol. XXVI (Materials), Part iii.