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The Beacon Island is a small rocky outcrop on which Thomas Snodgrass<\/a> \u2013 an Englishman working for the East India Company back in 1791 built a small room and a spire.<\/p>\n

Snodgrass was (tax) Collector of Ganjam District during this period and quickly worked out that he could make best use of his time there by enjoying a lavish lifestyle on the mainland shooting, trapping and entertaining visitors.<\/p>\n

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‘The Bearded Crossing-Sweeper at the Exchange’ from Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor volume 2.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

He built a big lakeside mansion with space for his horses and elephants.<\/p>\n

He progressively spent more time reading and hanging out on Beacon Island (which became his office).<\/p>\n

Revenue from the district fell and rumours of his lifestyle reached the Company\u2019s office in Madras.<\/p>\n

Snodgrass ignored their letters, threatened to shoot a Mr Brown from the Company sent to relieve him of office.<\/p>\n

He played on the remoteness of his outpost which took months to reach by road and was cut off by sea during the Monsoon season.<\/p>\n

The Governor sent a small body of soldiers to bring him back so Snodgrass sent all tax records out into the middle of the lake and sank them (claiming it was an accident).<\/p>\n

Snodgrass was eventually removed from office and denied a company pension.<\/p>\n

In London he fought back by becoming a street sweeper in front of East India House which enabled him to confront the pompous and wealthy directors every day.<\/p>\n

They gave in to escape the public ridicule he had brought upon them and Snodgrass got his pension.<\/p>\n

Source<\/strong>: active360.co.uk | Photo Credit: Udayan Sarathi<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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