Toddy Term Analysis

...part, this is because they drink much of their money away with the “white frothy toddy” and spend the rest on “marriages and deaths and festivals and caste-dinners” and finer food... (full context)

Two days later, 139 villagers begin marching to Boranna’s toddy grove, led by Moorthy, Rangamma, Rangè Gowda, and Pariah Rachanna in a cart. They announce... (full context)

...approaches them on a bridge and warns them that they may not go to the toddy grove. Moorthy thanks the Inspector and continues, claiming that “he would follow [the Congress’s instructions]... (full context)

...policemen try to push back the marchers, Rachanna runs and jumps the fence, climbing a toddy tree. The policemen rush to attack him and quickly drag him down as the rest... (full context)

...At the temple the morning after, they line up their “trophies”: five twigs from the toddy trees and a toddy-pot. (full context)

The next Tuesday, the villagers gather in the temple and again march to picket the toddy shops. Along their way, various people ask about their purposes; at the Skeffington Estate, they... (full context)

...come out “like clogged bulls,” followed by policemen and their women, and head for Boranna’s toddy booth. (full context)

Moorthy tells the Gandhians to squat in front of the toddy booth, and as the rain begins to pick up the policemen begin to beat the... (full context)

People throughout India picket toddy booths near their towns, and all day and night they sing songs about the evil... (full context)

The villagers continue to picket toddy shops, and 24 of them close down in the area nearby, including Boranna’s. Some of... (full context)

...compromising many of the pilgrims’ initial conditions: Gandhians have to pay revenues and stop boycotting toddy shops, and “everything they say, will be as before.” Yet “nothing an ever be the... (full context)