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APP.
XXXVII
SECOND TREATY OF 1846
3-79
mir by Maharaja Gulab Singh, th-e Lahore Government was called upon to coerce their subject, and to
make over the province to the representative of the British Government, in fulfilment of the conditions of the treaty of Lahore, dated 9th March 1846. British force was employed to support and aid, if necessary, the combined forces of the Lahore State and Maharaja Gulab Singh in the above operations. Shaikh Imam-ud-rdin intimated to the British Government that he was acting under orders received from
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the -Lahore Durbar in the course he was pursuing; and stated that the insurrection had been instigated by written instructions received by him from the Wazir Raja Lai Singh. Shaikh Imam-ud-din surrendered to the British agent on a guarantee from that officer, that if the Shaikh could, as he asserted, prove that his acts were in accordance with his instructions, and that the opposition was instigated by the Lahore minister, the Durbar should not be permitted to inflict upon him, either in his person or his property, any penalty on account of his conduct on this occasion. The British agent pledged his Government to a full and impartial investigation of the matter. A public inquiry was instituted into the facts
adduced by Shaikh Imam-ud-din, and it was fully established that Raja Lai Singh did secretly instigate the Shaikh to oppose the occupation by Maharaja Gulab Singh of the province of Kashmir.
The
Governor-General immediately demanded and Chiefs of the Lahore State should depose and fexile to the British provinces the Wazir Raja Lai Singh. His Lordship consented to accept the deposition of Raja Lai Singh as an atonement for the attempt to infringe the treaty by the secret intrigues and machinations of the Wazir. It was not proved that the other members of the Durbar had cognizance of the Wazir's proceedings; and the conduct of the Sardars, and of the Sikh army in the late operations for quelling the Kashmir insurrection, and removing the obstacles to the fulfilment of the treaty, proved that the criminality of the Wazir was not participated in by the Sikh nation. The Ministers and Chiefs unanimously decreed, and carried into immediate effect, the deposition of that the Ministers
the Wazir. After a few
days'
deliberations,
relative
to the
means of forming a government at Lahore, the remain
XXXVII
SECOND TREATY OF 1846
3-79
mir by Maharaja Gulab Singh, th-e Lahore Government was called upon to coerce their subject, and to
make over the province to the representative of the British Government, in fulfilment of the conditions of the treaty of Lahore, dated 9th March 1846. British force was employed to support and aid, if necessary, the combined forces of the Lahore State and Maharaja Gulab Singh in the above operations. Shaikh Imam-ud-rdin intimated to the British Government that he was acting under orders received from
A
the -Lahore Durbar in the course he was pursuing; and stated that the insurrection had been instigated by written instructions received by him from the Wazir Raja Lai Singh. Shaikh Imam-ud-din surrendered to the British agent on a guarantee from that officer, that if the Shaikh could, as he asserted, prove that his acts were in accordance with his instructions, and that the opposition was instigated by the Lahore minister, the Durbar should not be permitted to inflict upon him, either in his person or his property, any penalty on account of his conduct on this occasion. The British agent pledged his Government to a full and impartial investigation of the matter. A public inquiry was instituted into the facts
adduced by Shaikh Imam-ud-din, and it was fully established that Raja Lai Singh did secretly instigate the Shaikh to oppose the occupation by Maharaja Gulab Singh of the province of Kashmir.
The
Governor-General immediately demanded and Chiefs of the Lahore State should depose and fexile to the British provinces the Wazir Raja Lai Singh. His Lordship consented to accept the deposition of Raja Lai Singh as an atonement for the attempt to infringe the treaty by the secret intrigues and machinations of the Wazir. It was not proved that the other members of the Durbar had cognizance of the Wazir's proceedings; and the conduct of the Sardars, and of the Sikh army in the late operations for quelling the Kashmir insurrection, and removing the obstacles to the fulfilment of the treaty, proved that the criminality of the Wazir was not participated in by the Sikh nation. The Ministers and Chiefs unanimously decreed, and carried into immediate effect, the deposition of that the Ministers
the Wazir. After a few
days'
deliberations,
relative
to the
means of forming a government at Lahore, the remain
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