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SECTION I
Q.1 Answer the following in not more than two sentences:
20 marks
1.What was the role of Choultry Courts in 1639?[2]
Answer
In 1639, the year in which Francis Day obtained the grant of Madraspatnam on which Madras was founded, the Choultry Court was the existing village court of that settlement, presided over by the Adigar, the village headman, and deciding petty civil and criminal disputes among the inhabitants according to local custom.
Its role was therefore to supply the local justice the Company inherited when it took the site. The Company did not create it; it took it over, and after the Adigar was found guilty of corruption in 1656 it appointed its own English servants as judges of the court.
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