Villages in the district saw rioting in 1875 by peasants protesting Marwari and Gujarati moneylenders. The loans taken from private moneylenders will be simply nullified. Poor people borrow from informal moneylenders and save with informal collectors. In Christian Spain, Jews functioned as courtiers, government officials, merchants, and moneylenders. They arrived in Kozhikode as dependants of chieftains, working as cooks, cloth merchants and moneylenders. After 1896, immigrants from India came to the area as moneylenders, traders, and artisans. However, they eventually spread all over the islands, and became traders, landowners, and moneylenders. The regulation of moneylenders is typically much looser than that of banks. His mansion is also mortgaged with the moneylenders. Most are financed through personal savings; only 8% borrow from moneylenders. Hindus tended to perform traditional skilled jobs, such as moneylenders (Chettiars) and priests (Brahmins). A few Marwari families are also found in Kozhikode who was basically moneylenders. Pachcha renounces his ways and breaks up the gang of ruthless moneylenders. When the moneylenders could no longer pay the tax, they were accused of disloyalty. Historically, many "moneylenders" skirted between legal and criminal activity.