1 MAHARAJA RANJIT SINGH. 421
2 Khédlsé army, with whom he was extremely popular. His father, Dewan
3 Moti Rdm, was greatly afilicted on hearing of his son’s death, True is the
4 Persian saying :—
5 yf lls & ddl se YL V5)
6 ye dy 8 Oy BLE 9H
7 ‘What greater sorrow can there bein the world than that a father should have to throw
8 earth into the grave of his son.” -
9 Overwhelmed with sorrow at the untimely death of so promising a son,
10 Moti Ram desired to give up the government of Kashmir and retire to
11 Benares, there to spend the remainder of his life as a devotee. The Maha-
12 raja being unwilling to permit him to retire from public life, he was recalled
13 to Ldhore, and a more soldierly chief was sent to Kashmir, in the person
14 of Hari Singh, Nalwa, the most dashing soldier in the Sikh army, now that
15 Ram Dayal was no more, Hari Singh was a Sikh jagirdar who had acquired
16 a great reputation for courage and dexterity, having on one occasion killed a
17 tiger single-handed and on horseback, though at the sacrifice of the horse.
18 Although a good soldier, he proved a failure as an administrator, and ground
19 the people of Kashmir with tyranny. He was therefore recalled after a
20 year, and Moti Ram, who was a man of pacific and devotional habits, was
21 re-appointed governor, and held the office until 1826.
22 The protracted operations in Hazdrdé ended with the payment ofa naz-
23 vénd by Muhammad Khan, chief of Guldheri, and Sar Buland Khan, zemin-
24 dar of Tarbela, and the submission of certain other chiefs, after which Prince
25 Sher Singh and the Sikh sardars returned to Ldhore. In May, Raja
26 Aiz Khan, of Rajéuri, who had broken out into rebellion, and had-fled on
27 the approach of Mishar Dewan Chand to his territory, was seized and sent a
28 prisoner to Léhore by Guldb Singh, brother of Mian Dhian Singh, the
29 Deorhiwdla,’ or Lord of the Privy Chamber, of the Lahore Court. About
30 the same time Gulab Singh reported the death, by a cannon shot, of Dedu,
31 the notorious Dogré rebel, in an action which was fought against him. The
32 Maharaja, pleased with the services of Mian Gulab Singh, granted a jagir
33 to the family in Kashmir, with which they had been long connected. Rajas
34 Rahimullah Khan and Gharibullah Khan, of Rajauri, obtained a jagir of
35 Rs, 12,000 in Kashmir for their services rendered.
36 In the same year the able and adventurous traveller, William Moorcroft, a
37 native of Lancashire, visited the Court of Lahore. He was educated at Liver-
38 pool for the profession of a surgeon, but had finally settled in London as a
39 practitioner of veterinary surgery, and came out to India as Superintendent
40 ‘of the East India Company’s Military stud in Bengal. He had already
41 the reputation of being an enterprising traveller, having five years before
42 penetrated into Central Asia by way of Chinese Tartary. He was the
43 first European who,'having crossed the Himdlayas, made his way to
44 the great plain between those hills and the Kuenlun chain, the site of the
45 sources of the Indus-andSutlej, andof the two remarkable lakes, Rawan
46 and Mansarowar. He was now coming from Jawdlé Mukhi and Nadaun, on
47 his way to Balkh and Bokhdrd, where he was going to purchase horses.
48 He had strenuously urged on the Government the introduction of
49 the Turkomdn, in preference to the Arab, horse for the native cavalry of
50 India ; and his conviction was thatthe cavalry horse of this country could
51 be improved only by an infusion of the bone and blood of the Turkomdéu
52 steed. He es also an idea of establishing commercial intercourse
53 bebween, tae tuts dbaplag sn stricts and British ee With. thes
54 Tari Singh, Nalwa,
55 appouted governor of
56 Kashmir, 1820,
57 But Moti Ram is
58 again scnt there,
59 The Mahardja re-
60 wards the services of
61 Golab Singh in Kash-
62 mir,
63 The traveller Moor-
64 croft at Lahore, 1820.
65 His past travels,
66 His advanced views,
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