Letter No.52 of 1870 from Colonel Sir William Lockyer Merewether, K.C.S.I. & C.B., Commissioner's Office, Camp the Tanda to His Excellency The Right Honourable Sir William Robert Seymour Vesey Fitzgerald, G.C.S.I., Governor and President in Council, Bombay [‎54v] (2/28)

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according to his light until the horrible tragedy, which is reported by Sir II.
Greeii to have ended that young Prince's most promising career. Whether
Gool Mahomed really caused poison to be administered to Kusseer Khan,
because he was getting too wedded to British interests, will probably never be
satisfactorily cleared up; but his well-known and deep-seated hatred to our
power gives weight to the tale, and renders it probable that the events happen
ed as told to Sir H. Green.
3. The other Khanazadees who surrounded Mehrab Khan were the fourSha-
gasee's brothers, one of whom Noor Mahomed was killed by Mehrab Khans side
in the breach ;it the storm of Klielat. The remaining three, Wullee Mahomed,
Gookm Jan and Taj Mahomed, were given offices round Kusseer Khan on
his ascending the throne. Of these, the only one living and holding power now
is the Shagasee Wullee Mahomed, one of the most true and honest men in
Beloochistan; staunchly faithful to his master, and at the same time most sin
cere and earnest in his desire to, on all occasions, further and promote the
wishes of the British Government. lie was selected Wuzzeer by His Highness
the Khan, at Jacobabad in January 1858, in the presence of the Commissioner
Sir Bartle Frere and the late General Jacob, who approved the selection ;
and he was afterwards formally installed by the Khan at Gundava, in presence
of all the Chiefs of Beloochistan. Sir Henry Green, who worked with him
for many years afterwards, invariably stated that no better selection could
possibly be made.
L The present Khan, Meer Khodadad Khan was, on the death of his
brother Meer Nusseer Khan hi June 18.57, elected ruler by the Chiefs of
Beloochistan, the Puggree at the installation being tied on his head by the
Chief of J a la wan, 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. Taj Mahomed. That the Darogah Gool Mahomed
was exerting pernicious influence over the young Khan soon became apparent,
and his causing the attack on 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. in September 1857, undoubtedly
promoted the unfortunate division which has ever since existed between the
J\_ lan ail iGadin^ Chiefs of bis country. But that 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. were not
entirely free from blame then even is shown by Sir Bartle Frero in his letter
Ko. 61, of 19th February 1858 ; writing about this attack as follows :—
"At that time, he (the Jam of Beyla) joined other Chiefs of influence (these
bad come to Klielat under pretence of doing homage to the new Khan)
who appear to have thought the occasion propitious for pressing claims upon
a the Khan, some of which appear to have been reasonable and well founded,
<c while others were the reverse ; but they were urged in a manner which
induced the Khan s advisers to resort to force, to dislodge the remonstrant
<c Chiefs from the garden near Khelat, where they were encamped. They
" retired to a short distance from the capital, and thence addressed petitions
" for redress to the British authorities, assembling at the same time their own
" followers with a view to enforce the Khan s attention to their claims."
5. At the time of the above circumstances there was another counsellor
at the side of the young Khan, not a Khanazada, but a Bunniah named