C. I. D. friends to entrap people, and so

the peasants had necessarily to be cautious.
As I did not want to irritate the planters, but to win them over by gentleness, I made a point of writing to and meeting such of them against
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whom allegations of a serious nature were made. I met the Planters’ Associa¬ tion as well, placed the ryots’ grievances before them and acquainted myself with their point of view. Some of the planters hated me, some were indifferent, whilst a few treated me with courtesy.