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 [‎132r] (15/34)

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the Khan. This T pointed out to him at the
time, and I found it necessary to lay down rules
for his guidance, and for that also of the Politi
cal Agent at Khelat. These met with the ap
proval of the Government of Bomuay, and the
Government of India, and were ordered to he
observed, but I regret to say Colonel Phayre
has failed to accept them as they were intended.
Ever since then he has persistently endeavour
ed to prove he was right in supporting the Sir
dars' cause, even after what followed at Khelat,
and to maintain that we were bound to force the
Khun to accept any demands they might choose
to make. It is not clear either how Colonel
Phayre can state that in March, April, and May
1869 he was steadily pursuing the policy of
General Jacob and Sir Henry Green, when in
December of the same year, in his statement of
Khelat affairs, he acknowledges that it was on
ly after close examination of the records of the
office, that he had arrived at a clear, and full
understanding of what had been done, and what
ought to be done. At page 71 of the printed
papers submitted to Government in January
1870, there is the following passage—" I need
hardly say that had I known the whole of the
facts now produced, before assuming the task
in March last, of trying to reconcile the Khan
with the Jalawan and Sahara wan Chiefs, and
to obtain justice for them, I should not have
attempted using the ordinary means of repre
sentation for that purpose." In December, he
had only just fully mastered what he now states
he was steadily pursuing in the previous spring.
I must again repeat that Colonel Phayre is
wholly unjustified in stating that " the Khan
adroitly used the altered state of affairs, which
he well knew to be the results of the assas
sin's attack, as evidence of rebellion on the
part of 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. .'" 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's
disregard of Colonel Phayre's instructions and
my wishes that he should not go to Beyla, the
collection of armed men there, the arrangements
made with Azaud Khan, that he should meet
them on their way to Khelat, and their advan
cing at the herd of an armed body close to Khe
lat, showed their determination was to try and
jn'ess their demands by force, a procedure which
can be called by no other term than rebellion.
The Khan gave his promise to 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
See para. 25.
evidence of rebellion on the part of 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. .
The Khan, it is true, went
through the form of promi
sing to restore all hereditary rights ; but he at
tached to that promise such conditions, that,
after all that had happened, and seeing the Po
litical Aofcnt himself sidinf* with the Khan, the
o o ^
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. w r ere naturally enough afraid to trust
him. The result however of all was that Captain
Harrison gave them a pass as a guarantee that
they would not be molested, if they went to
their homes. This thev agreed to do, and thev
at once left Khelat enroute home, in obedience
to those orders.