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 [‎55r] (3/28)

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Gungaram, who tliongh never apparently appointed, was virtually Wuzzeer,
and who shared with the Darogah in undisguised enmity to the British
Government. One general cause of complaint and dissatisfaction was the
power usurped by this Bunniah.
G. On Sir Henry Green, at the conclusion of the Persian war, rejoining
lii.s appointment as Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. at Khelat in 1858, he found it necessary to
exert Ins whole influence with the Khan, backed by the support of General
Jacob and Sir Bartle Frere, to check the proceedings of these two men, and
to obtain their removal from office. The Bunniah Gungaram was sent away to
Sind by the Khan, but the Darogah remained at Khelat, though relieved from
liis duties. He for some time continued to exercise some indirect influence
over the Khan for evil, but it was much, if not entirely, nullified by the firm,
and straightforward bearing of Sir Henry Green, who in a measure succeeded
in making a friend of the JJarogah before death brought the latters trouble
some career to an end.
7. It was hoped then that matters would run more smoothly, and that
the divisions that had been caused might be settled favorably. Sir H, Green
was able on occasions to report more favorably of the young Khan, but the
unfortunately uncertain character of this young Prince, made still worse by his
wretched rearing in the seclusion of the harem and immediate difficulties on
his first entering public life, led to repeated contretemps. This capriciousness
also, each time that it was shown, naturally increased the ill-feeling amongst
the principal 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. , and on each recurrence of a difference the attitude
assumed by the Chiefs becoming more objectionable, the breach could not but
be widened in spite of all Sir H. Green's efforts to the contrary. That Officer
reporting on 29th January 1863 writes thus in reference to this point:—" Much
" of the ill-feeling towards the Khan is doubtless caused by his capricious and
" unstable character, but his Chiefs by the unreasonableness of their demands
<f and insolence of their conduct towards him, render any permanent settlement
" of their differences most difficult; his power over them is slight, and although
" their lands are held by feudal tenure, any attempt made by His Highness to
" enforce even the extradition of a culprit leads to their banding together and
" defying his authority."
8. This capriciousness was most unfortuitously displayed in one particu
lar case of the grave insult passed by the Khan on 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, the
principal Chief of Jala wan, in the year before the above was written. The
betrothal of the Khan to the daughter of Taj Mahomed had been formally
executed before, but in a hasty moment he suddenly married 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.
sistei>wido\v of his brother, the late Khan, and a determined enemy of her
brother. This marriage was perfectly justifiable according to Brahooee law,
but under the circumstances was a direct affront to the 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. . This act
materially assisted in bringing about the revolution which caused the attack
oh the Khan in 1803, and his deposition for the time,. At first Sir H. Green