Kalat Affairs [‎353r] (113/172)

fore to previous Political Agents, and
was intended to prevent the renewal
of hostilities beween the Khan and
the Jam. The latter, however, was
determined on further rebellion, and
used this question as a continuous
source of irritation. The Khan’s wish
that CaptaiA Harrison should active
ly interfere ahd receive possession of
the village w^s disapproved by me,
and not allowed.
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31* The real circumstances are not
stated here, and the florid description
of the Jam smarting under a defep sense
of wrong, &c., is simply absurd! The
Jam at first pretended to accept the
decision, and withdrew the man he
had placed on the disputed lafi
But suddenly he sent people
seize the revenues of the place whic?
constituted a gross insult to the Khan.
The latter at once despatched his
faithful Minister Wullee Mahomed,
with a force to punish the Jam, and
the operation being vigorously carried
out, the ally, Nooroodeen, was first
surprised and routed, and the Jam
also shortly after sustained a com
plete defeat. One circumstance will
show how much patriotism had to do
with the Jam’s conduct. When about
to fly from the fight, which he did at
the very earliest, he told the mercen
aries he had recently entertained to
look sharp, and going to Beyla, the
town of his own people, plunder it
before the Minister could arrive. They
did so, and the ex-Jam actually had
the impudence to claim articles of
the plundered property, as his own,
when they were afterwards brought
into Kurrachee for sale by some of
the mercenaries.
32. The first part of this paragraph
would also, I regret to say, give an im
pression quite contrary to what should
be held according to what really occur
red. Sirdar Leader of a tribe or a polity; also refers to a military rank or title given to a commander of an army or division. Moolla Mahomed had be
taken himself in May to Seebee, in-
the case, for no sooner had the Sirdars Leader of a tribe or a polity; also refers to a military rank or title given to a commander of an army or division.
left Khelat under Captain Harrison’s
guarantee, than the Khan finding
how much more successful he had
been than he ever was with Sir Henry
Green, or indeed any other British
Agent who had visited the Court before,
went to Captain Harrison and asked
him to arbitrate in the nature of an old
dispute that he and the Jam of Lus
Beyla had about the Jummal Khan
estate, which was then in the Jam’s
possession. Strange to say, in spite
of the absolute orders he had re
ceived from the Commissioner, so often
repeated in the course of this corre
spondence, he was unable to resist the
Khan’s influence, and unfortunately
undertook the arbitration suggested,
notwithstanding that the Jam was not
present to defend himself in so import
ant a civil and political suit.
31. The result was that Captain
Harrison gave his decision against the
Jam, who was eventually forced to give
up the property ; but naturally enough,
being exasperated at the advantage
which had been taken by the Khan in
his absence to enlist the English Agent’s
power and decision against him, and
smarting under a de„ep sense of wrong,
flew to arms, issued proclamations
hrough the country, accusing Captain
"arrison of having broken faith with
and having very little time to pre-
par for war, was defeated by the Khan’s
s, who seized his country. The
Jam i^nd his family fled for refuge to
British territory, where they now are in
exile. \
32. All the other Sirdars Leader of a tribe or a polity; also refers to a military rank or title given to a commander of an army or division. , seeing the
British power which hacf been so friend
ly to them under Genera^ Jacob and Sir
Henry Green, now arrayed against them,
fled in different directions^ leaving fami
lies, relations, and adherents to brood
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