Carrie Chapman Catt - Diaries, India, January - February? 1912 (Box 1, Folder 5)

...sellers sweet & fresh [illegible] jackets with flowers in their hair. Want trade done by women & on their own account. Does not interfere with [illegible] home.

Some 13 years ago, the Dutch completed the long stretch of wars and negotations and diplomatic. When the Dutch began their task of civilizing and developing the island of Sumatra, they heard strange tales of the wealth and power of a mysterious kingdom of Minang Kabout which occupies the interior of the Southern portion of the island and which boasted that its commercial relations extended from China to Turkey. It was a comparatively easy matter to subdue the people who occupied the hot low coast country, but [illegible] remained closed to them and every overture met with haughty disdain. In 1821, however,...

these people found themselves in trouble and appealed to the Dutch for aid, a large group of their people... had organized a rebellion, and kuomnas Padris under the leadership of fanatical Mohammedares Rumm as the Padris had organized a rebellion and proposed to cast everything in their institutions which was not in strict conformity with orthodox Mohammadism. A considerable portion of these people under the leadership of fanatical Mohammadares Rumm as Padris who had come from outside the Kingdom had been aroused to rebellion