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John Garrett (linguist)
←Created page with 'John Garrett was a Wesleyan Missionary, who served in India, in the Wesleyan Canarese Mission, at the Bangalore Petah. Garrett was a linguist and a scholar of several languages such as Canarese (Kannada), Sanskrit, Tamil, Persian, German and Latin. Garrett is credited with establishing a printing press, the Wesleyan Mission Press, at Bangalore Petah at around 1841. Garett is also credited with founding the Central High School in 1858, which is now the Centr...'
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Vellaloor massacre
←Created page with 'Vellaloor Massacre, 1767, is the killing of nearly 5000 men of the Kallan clan at the Vellalore village near MelurTaluk in Madurai District in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. The massacre was ordered by Captain Rumley of the East India Company. The murder of the Indigenous people occured, as they refused to pay taxes to the East India Company. The carnage is recorded in the 1767 annual gazette of the Madras Government. The Ka...'