WAGHERS AGAIN ACTIVE and many turbulent characters had begun to follow the example of Widha Manik, undeterred by his fate. When in A.D. 1817 the British had handed over Okhamandal to the Gaekwad of Baroda, those leading Waghers who had been deprived of their lands were given pensions. But in A.D. 1857 some interference was made by the Gaekwad's Government regarding those pensions, and the angered recipients, only too glad of an excuse, created a disturbance which was not suppressed until after the arrival of British troops in the district under Lieutenant Barton. In the following year more discontented Waghers seized the fort at Dwarka, and were not driven out until British troops again attacked them. It was now decided that the Gaekwad's Government should prosecute its own operations against the disturbers of the peace, and Lieu- tenant Barton withdrew his detachment. The Baroda troops now invested Wasai, and after a desultory siege the Waghers finally came to terms. But in A.D. 1859, encouraged by the events of the Mutiny, they rose en masse and under the leadership of Jodho Manik seized the whole of the Okhamandal Peninsula. The Gaekwad's representative now wisely placed the affairs of the district entirely into the hands of the British, and a body of troops under Colonel Honner was sent to subdue the rising. The Waghers entered Kathiawad and took up a position on the Abpura Hills, from which after some fighting they were dislodged in December of the same year. But a small party of the insurgents escaped and proceeded by sea to Sutrapada, where they were joined by outlaws against Junagadh State and many other malcontents. They now began to ravage the territory of the Gaekwad, and on October 8, 1860, with magnificent insolence, attacked and captured Kodinar. The Baroda troops were unable to withstand them as they had no ammunition, while relieving forces arriving from Amreli 215