A BRITISH AGENCY AT RAJKOT Jodia, at which place it arrived about the middle of the rainy season. On seeing the force arrayed against him, Sangram Khawas lost heart and came out pale and trembling to ask for quarter. He surrendered the fort with all its artillery and ammunition, and also his own baggage. He himself was escorted to Morvi, and after- wards arrangements were made whereby he was to receive Amran for his maintenance. Sundarji Shavji,the British Agent, was then given Balambha and Jodia districts in farm for eight years, agreeing to pay to the British and the Gaekwad the instalments of the sum promised by the Jam for the aid they had recently given him* Sundarji Shavji now aspired to the Dewanship of Junagadh, and by way of preparing a path for himself, succeeded in placing Dewan Raghunathji in an unfavour- able light before the Nawab. He promised that were he himself Dewan, he would recover Upleta and Dhoraji for Junagadh, and also Mangrol and Wadasinor (Balasinor) in Gujarat, which was in the possession of a branch of the Babi family. The British Government supported Sun- darji, and eventually he succeeded in being appointed Dewan in A.D. 1818, much to the disgust of Raghunathji, whose whole-hearted enmity he thus earned. But Raghu- nathji was permitted little time for indulging in counter- intrigue, for in the following year he died. On June 16, A.D. 1819, Kathiawad experienced a most severe earthquake, which caused much alarm. Porbandar, Morvi, and Amran suffered extensively, many houses being destroyed and many deaths thereby occurring. Captain Barnewall was appointed to be the first Political Agent sent to Kathiawad to represent the British Government on the establishment of an Agency at Rajkot in A.D. 1820, following on the Gaekwad of Baroda's agreement that year to make no demands on the Kathiawad chiefs except through the British. Colonel Walker's 197