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Page 194-256 1. RAJA OF RAJAPIPLA IMPLICATED IN NANDOD DISTURBANCE, 1857 [" About the middle of August information was given by the Chief of Rajpipla that a certain Syed Morad Ali was trying to organize a disturbance at Nandod, the Chief town of the Rajpipla territory. The chief asked for help, as he believed the head of his 194 troops had been tampered with by the Syed, and that the men of his militia were inclined to join his mercenaries in revolt. On the 17th of August, Mr. Rogers, taking with him two hundred Native and fifty European troops, started for Nandod. But the Syed had taken alarm and fled," Bombay Gazetteer, Vol. II, Broach District, page 477]. The following account has been summarised from P, D. Volumes 45, 47, 48, 50 : — The acting Magistrate of Broach in a demi-official note dated 2nd August 1857 to the Political Secretary to the Government of Bombay informed him that the Raja of Nandood forwarded " a seditious notice written in the Hindustanee language which was found a few days ago pasted up in the town of Nandood. The notice is supposed to be in the handwriting of Syed Morad Allee whom we have been trying to apprehend for some time past and calls upon all the Mussulmans, all Rajahs and Nawabs by the most sacred Mahomedan adjurations to slay the English, wherever they are to be found and assist the army of the king (said to be countless but its location and the name of its master are not stated) in which case they will certainly be exalted by the said king. " The Superintendent of Police has reported to Captain Buckle the misconduct of the Mamlatdar of Nandod in allowing this Morad Allee to remain at large on bail, when a Jemadar of the Horse Police whom we sent out for him, had apprehended and handed him over to his custody thus giving Morad Allee an opportunity of escape which he has availed himself of. It is supposed that he put up this notice after he had thus baffled his pursuer and I have written to the Rajah to use his last efforts to have him apprehended." (P. D. Vol. 45 of 1857, p. 393-394.) The acting Magistrate of Broach in a letter dated Broach 17th August 1857 informed the Government of Bombay that " the Superintendent of Police has this day received a letter from the Subedar of Seebundies at Nandod that the Scindee Jemadar had collected 300 or 400 men and if assistance was not immediately sent up, intended to attack all well affected to the British Government, burn and plunder Nandod and retire to the fort of Rajpipla in the hulls, that his own Seebundees are giving in their resignations and taking service with the Jemadar." (P. D. Vol. 47/Comp. 166 p. 107-108). 195 The Acting Collector in a letter dated 14th August 1857, informed the Government of Bombay that 'Yesterday received a letter from the Rajah of Nandod asking the authorities here to send up one hundred men on account of the Arab Jemadar who became security for Syed Moorad Allee, having harboured that person in his house, and collected 50 or '60 men to defend him in case an attempt being made to seize him. " The Rajah said in his letter that the Mussulman population were in the excited state but as their numbers are insignificant, I apprehend nothing from what they are able to do." (P. D. Vol. 47, p. 121-122.) Mr. Rogers the acting Magistrate of Broach arrived at Nandood on 20th August, 1857. In a communication dated 21st August, 1857 to Captain Buckle, acting Political Agent, Rewakanta, he wrote, " The Rajah in my opinion deserves severe censure if not temporary deprivation of authority by way of warning to others for not putting a stop to them (the activities of the Jamadar and Syed Morad Allee.)". Captain Buckle reported to the Government of Bombay for their information in a communication dated 6th July 1857 the explanation he had received from the Rajah of Rajpipla " on the subject of his having given a sudden order for the repairing or remounting of some guns." " The Rajah explains that the guns alluded to are in the hill fort of Rajpipla and that some of those which have been always used at Dasserah had been injured by falling in of a shed, he had given orders for the repair of the shed and of the gun-carriages also. He also very strongly deprecates any suspicion of disloyalty arising out of these circumstances." (P. D. Volume 43 of 1857, p. 87). MAMLATDAR ARRESTED Lieut. Hawthorn, Commanding Detachment of 9th Regiment N. I. at Nandood in a communication dated 7th September 1857 to the Adjutant, 9th Regiment N. I. reported that "The. Mamlatdar of Nandood was in reality opposed to the Government's interest and that he had made use of the following words : ' The English Government is a thing of today, it will not last, the Rajah is firm and his authority will always last here.' " I reported this to Captain Nicholson, the Acting Political Agent, who after making enquiries considered it necessary to immediately 196 officials were shut up in the fort, in which were 14 of Scindhias arrest the Mamlatdar who is now a close prisoner in my quarter guard. Since his confinement, further evidence has been procured fully proving him a traitor to the Government whose pay he was receiving." (P. D. Volume 50 of 1857 p. 160-161.) 2. DOHAD MAMLATDAR MADE A CAPTIVE, 1857 The Resident at Baroda informed the Government of Bombay in a letter dated 16th July 1857 (page-304) that on the news of the outbreak at Indore reaching Scindia's Panch Mahals a Kannungh and some Mahomedan Wuttandars assembled followers and attacked Captain Buckle's Thanadar at Dohud. (P. D. Vol. 431, compilation 136 page 304). Captain Buckle in a letter dated Fort Dohud 18th July 1857, reported to Major General Roberts, Commanding N.D.A. Ahmedabad, (P. D. Vol. 45, page 123) that, " A mahomedan rebellion broke out in Dohud on the night of the 6th instant at 10 p.m. directed by the Kanoogh named Tyleydarkhan, a person of no influence, holding an Enamee village in Dohud Purgunna, worth about 2,500 rupees also lands yielding an income of Rs. 500 per annum. The Mamlatdar and the officials were shut up in the fort, in which were 14 of Scindhia's drilled police, also 8 pathans with subedar Hoosein Shan Khan, 24 Kusbatees and 14 Sowars. "No agress was allowed to the Government officials from the fort by the rebels and shots were continuously fired during the night. This state of affairs continued from 6th to 11th instant when the insurgents decamped." In a letter dated 31st July 1857, Captain Buckle wrote : " My search commenced on the 8th instant by which time the spirit of rebellion had reached the Mahomedan population of Godra where insurrection was only prevented by the advance of the troops. The Dohud rebels fled on the night of the 11th instant. The troops headed by a few of Scindhias' drilled police whom I had brought on for the purpose, took possession of the fort on the 13th instant. " On the 8th instant a party of 1 Subedar and 30 men of the police sent on by me from Godra to assist the garrison, were intercepted in the Barrea Jungle by a Mahomedan sepoy of Deoghur Barrea (supposed to be connected with the Dohud rebels) who raised the Bheels upon them and forced them to halt." (P.D. Vol. 46 of 1857, page 139.) 197 On 24th July 1857 Captain Buckle reported to the Government that, " fifteen prisoners were apprehended on a charge of high treason in having been concerned in an attempt to subvert Her Majesty's Government in India at Dohud." (page 163, P. D. Vol. 45 of 1857). Government appointed Captain Buckle a commissioner for the purpose of trying these prisoners on charges of treason under the provisions of Act IX of 1857 (page 165, P.D. Volume 45 of 1857.) These prisoners were tried and were convicted. Captain Buckle reported to the Government of Bombay on 24th August, 1857, the results of the trial of these fifteen prisoners. The conviction and sentences were as follows : One Prisoner convicted of treason—14 years transportation with hard labour. Nine Prisoners convicted of armed rebellion, sentenced to transportation for life. One Prisoner acquitted. Four Prisoners convicted of armed rebellion and of additional crime of having forced with threats of death certain persons to proclaim the king of Delhi in the streets of Dohud, sentenced to death. " Sentences of death passed on 4 prisoners were carried out this morning (24th August 1857), they have been blown from guns." (page 231, P.D. Volume 48 of 1857.) R. H. G. C. while approving of the proceedings of Captain Buckle informed him that a native prisoner should not be sentenced to transportation for any period short of life. (Page 235, P. D. Volume 48 of 1857.) 3. MUSTAFAKHAN COLLECTS THE WULAYATEES, 1857 Disaffection in " Wulaitees " which Sir Richmond Shakespear, the Political Commissioner in Gujarat in 1857 termed as " Wulaitee Movement" was, to a large extent responsible for mutinous activities in Eastern parts of Gujerat and Western Malwa. Scindees, Makranis, Kabulees and Arabs were commonly known as 198 "Wulaitees " (meaning foreigners). They were the armed mercenary soldiers who were widely employed as retainers or Seebundees with Rajahs, Nawabs and petty chiefs in Gujarat and other parts of the country about the middle of the 19th century.
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