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The report Ffolkes submitted was furious. He called the college “a hotbed of seditious rationalism” and accused Vijayan of “inculcating a hatred for the Crown through quadratic equations.” But he could not close it. Because the boys—those same skinny, barefoot, rice-fed boys—had already begun to pass the civil service examinations.

3:00 PM: English Literature. We read from Shakespeare’s ‘The Tempest.’ But Mr. Vijayan (who visits unannounced) crosses out ‘Caliban’ and writes ‘The British Resident.’ No one laughs. No one ever laughs. rex vijayan scholarship college 1870s

He liquidated three ships and bought an abandoned Dutch fort on a mosquito-haunted spit of land near present-day Kannur. The report Ffolkes submitted was furious