CHAPTER XV (A.D. 1808-1822) WHILE Colonel Walker was still in Kathiawad, disturbances broke out in Porbandar, where Prathiraj, the son of Rana Haloji, rebelled against his father and seized the fort at Chhaya. All the efforts to dislodge him failed, and finally the Rana asked aid from the British. A force was sent to co-operate with him, and after a siege lasting for two hours the fort of Chhaya fell and Prathiraj surrendered, after having been wounded. His grandmother, who was with him in the fort, when captured was found to be wearing golden anklets, and the victors, greedy for spoil, cruelly cut off her feet to procure them. Porbandar was now placed under British protection and a detachment of one hundred men was stationed in the fort for the protec- tion of the Rana. The Rana ceded one-half of the revenue of the port to the British, in return for which they advanced him fifty thousand rupees, so that he might pay off a portion of his debt to the Gaekwad's Government. Nawab Hamed Khan of Junagadh died in A.D. 1811, and was succeeded by his son, Bahadur Khan, who was eighteen years of age and had been brought up at Patan, whither, with his mother, he had been sent some years before on account of a supposed attempt having been made by her to set fire to the Nawab's palace at Junagadh. Raghunathji was at this time at Kutiana, where he had been living for the past seven years, and fearing so young and inexperienced a Nawab might lead the State into trouble at a particularly critical time, the principal men 190