What irked the court authorities further is Devasahayam Pillai’s mingling with the people of the low castes. The Brahmins and the Nairs who were caste conscious could not accept him back into the court, not only because he had refused to worship the gods and to observe the practices of the ancestral faith, but he had become polluted and contaminated by moving with the untouchables59. If he had stopped with just getting baptized and would have desisted in putting into practice his Christian virtue of equality of all, it would have not much bothered the Hindu and caste conscious officials. That Devasahayam put into serious practice the Christian faith in God who is the Father of all and lived the Baptismal transformation by denying all caste distinctions brought him at loggerheads with his colleagues in the king’s court.
