Contrast with this the Burmese agreeableness and affability, or the bearing of the Rajput and the Sikh.

In those days the natives cringed before the Sahib Log much more than they do now.

Then all had to put their umbrellas down on passing a sahib, and all had to leave the side-walk on the white man's approach; not that the law compelled them to do so, it was simply a custom enforced by their masters, in the large cities as well as in the mofussil.
We thought it advisable at all costs to keep the coolies in a proper state of subjection.

Thus, when on a certain occasion a coolie of mine raised his kodalie (hoe) to strike me I had to give him a very severe thrashing.

Another time a man appeared somewhat insolent in his talk to me and I unfortunately hit him a blow on the body, from the effects of which he died next day.