Chapter 15

Amir Khan’s reception at Jodhpur—Engages to extirpate
Sawai’s faction—Interchanges turbans with the Raja—The
Khan repairs to Nagor—Interview with Sawai—Swears to
support the Pretender—Massacre of the Rajput
chiefs—Pretender flies—The Khan plunders Nagor—Receives
£100,000 from Raja Man—Jaipur overrun—Bikaner
attacked—Amir Khan obtains the ascendancy in
Marwar—Garrisons Nagor with his Pathans—Partitions lands
amongst his chiefs—Commands the salt lakes of Nawa and
Sambhar—The minister Induraj and high priest Deonath
assassinated—Raja Man’s reason affected—His
seclusion—Abdication in favour of his son Chhattar
Singh—He falls the victim of illicit pursuits—Madness of
Raja Man increased—Its causes—Suspicions of the Raja
having sacrificed Induraj—The oligarchy, headed by Salim
Singh of Pokaran, son of Sawai, assumes the charge of the
government—Epoch of British universal supremacy—Treaty
with Marwar framed during the regency of Chhattar
Singh—The oligarchy, on his death, offer the _gaddi_ of
Marwar to the house of Idar—Rejected—Reasons—Raja Man
entreated to resume the reins of power—Evidence that his
madness was feigned—The Raja dissatisfied with certain
stipulations of the treaty—A British officer sent to
Jodhpur—Akhai Chand chief of the civil
administration—Salim Singh of Pokaran chief
minister—Opposition led by Fateh Raj—British troops
offered to be placed at the Raja’s disposal—Offer
rejected—Reasons—British Agent returns to Ajmer—Permanent
Agent appointed to the court of Raja Man—Arrives at
Jodhpur—Condition of the capital—Interview’s with the
Raja—Objects to be attained described—Agent leaves
Jodhpur—General sequestrations of the fiefs—Raja Man
apparently relapses into his old apathy—His deep
dissimulation—Circumvents and seizes the faction—Their
wealth sequestrated—Their ignominious death—Immense
resources derived from sequestrations—Raja Man’s thirst
for blood—Fails to entrap the chiefs—The Nimaj chief
attacked—His gallant defence—Slain—The Pokaran chief
escapes—Fateh Raj becomes minister—Raja Man’s speech to
him—Nimaj attacked—Surrender—Raja Man’s infamous violation
of his pledge—Noble conduct of the mercenary
commander—Voluntary exile of the whole aristocracy of
Marwar—Received by the neighbouring princes—Man’s gross
ingratitude to Anar Singh—The exiled chiefs apply to the
British Government, which refuses to mediate—Raja Man
loses the opportunity of fixing the constitution of
Marwar—Reflections 1089