vipery

Updated: May 25, 2025

The Emperor's officers argued that the rent ought to have been larger, but the Company, conforming to the spirit of corruption that was in fashion, were wily enough to send by a Brahman and a Mohammedan conjointly a sum of Rs. 700 'to be distributed amongst the King's officers who keep the Records, in order to settle this matter. The village of Vepery variously called in olden documents Ipere, Ypere, Vipery, and Vapery lay between Egmore and Pursewaukam; and the Company, being naturally desirous of consolidating their territory, proceeded at once to try to obtain a grant of the place; but successive efforts on the part of Governor Elihu Yale came to naught; and it was not till much later when the Nawab of Arcot was lord of the soil, that Vepery was acquired from the Nawab.

Glyn Barlow - The Story of Madras