From the diary of K. A. Sivan, a fisherman’s son who later became the first Indian chief justice of the Calcutta High Court:
Life at the Rex Vijayan Scholarship College in the 1870s was a study in violent contrasts. The campus itself was feudal austerity: boys slept on coir mats on stone floors, ate a single meal of rice and moru (buttermilk) per day, and wore coarse handspun uniforms. There were no sports. No holidays. The only decoration was a life-sized bronze statue of Vijayan himself, whose eyes were said to follow the boys as they filed into the dining hall. rex vijayan scholarship college 1870s
His plan, as outlined in a furious 200-page manifesto titled The Scholarship of Revenge , was simple: From the diary of K