their love of truth, for their great experience and strict impartiality, are continually expanding themselves lotus-like on the surface of the lake of the Civil Service. Therefore, it is becoming fully evident that these great men will very soon take hold of the rod of justice in order to stop the sufferings which the ryots are enduring from the great giant _Rahu_, the Indigo Planter. ----- Footnote 1: _Shamchand_ is an instrument made of leather, used by the Planters for beating the ryots. ----- PERSONS OF THE DRAMA. [Illustration] GOLUK CHUNDER BASU. | NOBIN MADHAB } _Sons of Goluk Chunder_. BINDU MADHAB } SADHU CHURN—_A neighbouring Ryot_. RAY CHURN—_Sadhu’s brother_. GOPI CHURN DAS—_The Dewan_. J. J. WOOD } _Indigo Planters_. P. P. ROSE } THE AMIN OR LAND MEASURER. A KHALASI, _a Tent-pitcher_. TAIDGIR—_Native Superintendent of Indigo Cultivation_. Magistrate, Amla, Attorney, Deputy Inspector, Pundit, Keeper of the Gaol, Doctor, a Cow-keeper, a Native Doctor, Four Boys, a Latyal or Club-man, and a Herdsman. WOMEN. SABITRI—_Wife of Goluk Chunder_. SOIRINDRI—_Wife of Nobin_. SARALOTA—_Wife of Bindu Madhab_. REBOTI—_Wife of Sadhu Churn_. KHETROMANI—_Daughter of Sadhu_. ADURI—_Maid-servant in Goluk Chunder’s house_. PODI MOYRANI—_A Sweetmeat Maker_. FIRST ACT—FIRST SCENE. SVAROPUR—GOLUK CHUNDER’S GOLA OR STORE-HOUSE. ------- GOLUK CHUNDER BASU _and_ SADHU CHURN _sitting_. _Sadhu._ Master I told you then we cannot live any more in this country. You did not hear me however. _A poor man’s word bears fruit after the lapse of years._ _Goluk._ O my child! Is it easy to leave one’s country? My family has been here for seven generations. The lands which our fore-fathers rented have enabled us never to acknowledge ourselves servants of others. The rice which grows, provides food for the whole year, means of hospitality to guests, and also the expense of religious services; the mustard seed we get, supplies oil for the whole year, and, besides, we can sell it for about sixty or seventy rupees. Svaropur is not a place where people are in want.—It has rice, peas, oil, molasses from its fields, vegetables in the garden, and fish from the tanks;—whose heart is not torn when obliged to leave such a place? And who can do that easily?