THE WAGHER OUTLAWS In A.D. 1820 the Waghers rose and expelled the English officer who had two years previously been posted at Dwarka to assist the Gaekwad of Baroda's representative in keeping order. This outrage could not go unpunished, and a few months afterwards a powerful British force operating against the Waghers stormed Dwarka. In the fighting many of the leading Waghers were killed, including Mulu Manik and about two hundred and fifty of his tribe. A garrison was left in Dwarka, but soon afterwards it was removed, and the Okha district handed over to the Gaekwad of Baroda, who garrisoned the country with a force of two hundred Arabs under a Baroda State official. Widha Manik, one of the Dwarka Waghers, joined by a Rabari named Rudo, went into outlawry in A.D. 1847, and on February 2 of the following year shot Lieutenant George Loch, of the 2nd Bombay Light Cavalry, between Jursall and Ranawao as he was journeying to Porbandar , to proceed on leave to England. The outlaws were vigorously pursued by the States of Nawanagar and Porbandar, and in A.D. 1849 Rudo was captured, while Widha Manik finding it impossible to live as a closely hunted man, surrendered shortly afterwards, when he was tried and sentenced by the Political Agent at Rajkot. Mahuva again became a seat of trouble in A.D. 1851, when some of the Arab troops of Wajesinhji seized the town and refused to surrender until their claims for arrears of pay should be satisfied. On the advice of the Political Agent, Colonel Lang, they finally evacuated the fort and an agreement was passed with Bhavnagar State whereby their just claims were recognized, and the rebellion ceased. Nawab Hamed Khan II of Junagadh, who had suc- ceeded his father in A.D. 1840, died of consumption in A.D. 1851 at the early age of twenty-three. His brother, Mahomed Mahabat Khan, who was only fourteen years of age and was living at the time at Radhanpur, now 211