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Updated: June 20, 2025
Torture will not bring the truth. Mark you, Jamadar, I will make the compact with him. Do not lead an objection, but trust me." "But the dead Chief, Commander ?" "Yes, because of him; he loved his people. And the knowledge that yon dog has he would not have sacrificed." "But is Amir Khan to be unavenged?" the jamadar queried.
The jamadar with the fingers of his two hands clasped to his forehead in obeisance, declared: "If I, Ajeet Singh, tell that which is not true, Mother Kali, may thy wrath fall upon me and my family." Then Hodson shifted the black goddess and let it remain upon a corner of his table, surmising that the sight of it would help. "Speak, now," the Resident commanded; and the Jamadar proceeded.
The surly one flared up at this; his ungovernable rage drew his hand to a knife in his belt, and his eyes blazed with the ferocity of a wounded tiger. "Ajeet," he snarled, "you are now Chief, but you are not Raja to command slaves." With a swift twist of his wrist Ajeet snatched the pitcher from the hand of Hunsa, saying: "Jamadar, it is the liquor that is in you, therefore you have had enough."
The Dewan, devout Brahmin, had been running his fingers along a string of lacquered beads that hung about his neck, muttering a prayer against this that was like sacrilege. When the jamadar was shown into the room his face took on a look of uneasiness. It but added to the ferocity of the square scowling massive head.
He spoke to a Jamadar: "Have brought the leather nosebag of a horse and hot ashes so that we may come by the truth." Then Kassim held the parchment close to the lamp and scanned it. He rubbed a hand across his wrinkled brow and pondered. "Beside the seal here is the name, Rana Bhim," and he turned his fierce eyes on Barlow.
When our men got in 'tis a horrid story the head jamadar with his own hands stabbed all his master's women and children, to prevent em falling into our hands, and then set fire to the place. "Our men had already been driven out of Tanna fort by Manik Chand, who had come up with two thousand men and a couple of field pieces.
The Dewan had intimated that Hunsa and his men were to wait until a messenger brought them word where and when to make the decoity. Also if he betrayed them, failed to keep his compact with them, it would cause him the loss of his ugly head. The jamadar quite believed this; it would be an easy matter, surrounded as they were by Mahratta troops.
He raised his tulwar aloft, and as he did so the steel of every jamadar and hazari flashed upward, saying, "We Pindaris and Bundoolas who rode for Amir Khan, and now ride for Kassim, swear in the name of Allah, and on the Beard of Mahomet, who is his Prophet, friendship to the Englay Raj." "By Allah and the Beard of Mahomet, who is his Prophet, we make oath!" the deep voices boomed solemnly.
There was another band of muslin passed around the leaf, and as the Gulab turned away, she said: "Think you, Sookdee, that Bhowanee will be offended because of mercy. Some day, Jamadar, fire will be put upon your face, when the head has been lopped from your body, to hide the features of a decoit that it may not bear witness against the tribe."
Ajeet touched his slim fingers to Sookdee's arm: "Do not forget, Jamadar call me Raja. But as to the village; if we anger them they will not entertain the merchant; they will not let him rest in the village. And also if they are of an evil temper we will warn the merchant that they are thieves who will cut his throat and rob him. We will give him the protection of our numbers."
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