In this case, a farmer Biru had mortgaged half of his share of land to the family of one Prabhu on June 17, 1899. As per the mortgage deed, the earning from the land would discharge the interest on the loan and the revenue payable to the then government.
It was in the Jat Gazette that he wrote: “People describe the farmer as the Lord of Grains (Annadata), but no one sees whether he himself eats or not. It is the biggest wonder of the world that the one who produces remains hungry. I tell the Rajas and Nawabs and all types of governments of Hindustan to not harass the farmer to the extent that he stands up… Other people break the law when they get angry with a government, but when the farmer would get angry, he would not only break the law, he would also break the back of the government.”