A contest ensued, in which all the able-bodied men were killed, though not single cane had been planted.

The widows and children survived, and still hold the village, but have been so subdued by poverty that they are the quietest village community in the district.

The village from that time has gone by the name of _Kolowar_ village, from Koloo, the sugar-mill, though no sugar-mill was ever worked in the village, he believed.

He says, the villagers cherish the recollection of this _fight_; and get very angry when their neighbours _twit_ them with the folly of it.
[* They were released, and have been ever since at large on security.
One of them visited me in April 1851, and said, that as a point of honour, they should abstain from joining in the fight for their rights, but felt it very hard to be bound to do so.] In our own districts in Upper India, they often kill each other in such contests; but more frequently ruin each other in litigation in our Civil Courts, to the benefit of the native attorneys and law- officers, who fatten on the misery they create or produce.

In Oude they always decide such questions by recourse to arms, and the loss of life is no doubt fearful.