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Letter No.596 of 1870 from Colonel Sir William Lockyer Merewether, The Commissioner in Sind, Commissioner's Office, Kurrachee [Karāchi] to His Excellency the Right Honorable Sir William Robert Seymour Vesey Fitzgerald, Governor and President in Council, Bombay [‎126v] (4/34)

The record is made up of 17 folios. It was created in 15 Sep 1870. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .

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all claim to our sympathy, or any further
interposition in his behalf. Colonel Phayre
forgets also that Sir H. Green only consented
to interpose on condition that both sides agreed
to abide by his arbitration. I have nowhere
pointed out that Colonel Phayre should reject
the arrangement entered into by Sir II. Green.
Ehelat affairs. Indeed, I have already in
formed you that the first official document
placed in my hands on my arrival, was the last
report written by Sir Henry Green, on the eve
of his departure from the Frontier, dated 14th
April 1868, in which he records his last advice
to the Khan as follows ;—■
" * * I then wrote to His Highness
" the Khan, who was at Khelat, pointing out
" that these Chiefs had received severe and
" well merited punishment at his hands, and
" suggesting that it would be for his benefit
" and the well-being of his country, if they
" were forgiven and allowed to return to their
" homes. In due time I received a reply from
" His Highness, saying that he placed every-
" thing in my hands, that he would agree to
" any arrangement I might suggest."
5. But what I have objected to in Colonel
Phayre's proceedings is, that after 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 ungratefully spurned the Khan s
generous treatment, he. Colonel Phayre, per
sisted in considering 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
injured, and unfortunate, and that it was ne
cessary we should interfere in his and 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. " behalf, to the extent of forcincy the
t O
Khan to yield to what they demanded, how
ever unreasonable. This was the new policy
I objected to, as totally different to what had
been previously carried out, which had for its
object always the improvement of the Khan's
position and power, not lowering it as Colonel
Phayre would do. Had Colonel Phayre been
allowed to carry out his own views, the Khan
would have felt ill-treated and justly affronted ;
placed in direct antagonism to us, the rebel
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. would have been made by us triumphant
over their Sovereign, and in a short time would
have again attempted his dethronement, and
removal altogether. There being no adult suc
cessor of the blood Hoyal, a struggle for power
would have ensued between Moolla Mahomed,
the Jam of Bey la, and Azaad Khan, and the
whole country would have been convulsed.
5. This report, and the policy it represented,
received the full approval of Government, and had
I rejected it, and adopted some other, I should
have been justly open to the charge of intro
ducing a new line of policy on the border, but
the real fact is, that from this and a host of
precisely similar documents, I received, and
have retained my impressions regarding Khelat
affairs, and not, as you would now make it
appear, from the misrepresentations of interested
persons.

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Letter enclosing a letter from Colonel Robert Phayre which Merewether feels is exceedingly improper and disrespectful in its tone and that he has felt it necessary to add remarks to the letter to demonstrate the Colonel's continued misunderstanding of the situation and the different documents he has quoted from.

Enclosed with the letter is No.1260 of 1870 from Colonel Phayre, to Colonel Merewether, 3 September 1870, in which the Colonel defends his position and his attitudes towards Khelat [Kalāt] and Captain Charles Henry Harrison (The 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) including giving his understanding of the history of Khelat and how that applied to the present situation. Alongside each paragraph is a counter-explanation from Colonel Merewether, most of which either give fuller explanations of the correspondence cited or highlight areas where the Colonel has made assumptions and suppositions without having any evidence to support them.

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Letter No.596 of 1870 from Colonel Sir William Lockyer Merewether, The Commissioner in Sind, Commissioner's Office, Kurrachee [Karāchi] to His Excellency the Right Honorable Sir William Robert Seymour Vesey Fitzgerald, Governor and President in Council, Bombay [‎126v] (4/34), British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers, Mss Eur F126/22, ff 125-141, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100024195160.0x000033> [accessed 28 March 2024]

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