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impression will be quite sufficient for the British 

 reader, and it was that a slow but steady improve- 

 ment was going on in Junaghar. 



The principal men of this state were either Muham- 

 madans or Nagar Brahmans. After the Xawab him- 

 self, the chief noble was his brother-in-law, the 

 Jemadar Bhauaddi'n, a very handsome and active but 

 somewhat dissipated-looking man, who, both by rep- 

 utation and in appearance, struck one as a sort of 

 oriental Earl of Rochester. His influence with his 

 Highness and in the state generally was very great. 

 I should not think he was a man to do much busi- 

 ness that he could get any one to do for him, but 

 that was from love of pleasure rather more than from 

 lack of capacity ; and, indeed, to uphold his position 

 must have required no little tact and ability. His 

 right-hand man was Salahindi, a pure Arab, of large 

 strong frame, who alone of the Muhammadan nobles 

 appeared to take much interest in public affairs, and 

 who acted as a sort of Minister of Public "Works, that 

 being the department to which he chiefly devoted 

 himself. In Bhauaddi'n you came in contact with a 

 polished and agreeable courtier, who probably could 

 be something the very opposite of that if occasion 

 required ; in Salahindi you had a soldierly, practical 

 man of visible shrewdness and good sense. 



The Xagar Brahmans are an exceedingly powerful 

 caste in Junaghar, as in all Kathiawar, and have 

 monopolised the political management of by far the 



