General John Jacob : commandant of the Sind Irregular Horse and founder of Jacobabad . Sir JohnKeane, as simply ^a port in Sind. Since the treatysigned in 1809, we had had some sort of relationswith the Sind Ameers. Burnes had sailed up theIndus in 1831, and had been followed in the nextyear by Colonel Pottinger, who, having negotiated asecond treaty, had been appointed British these relations and treaties were strictly commercial,and it was left for Lord Auckland to pass the doubtfulline which divides trade from politics on the bordersof our Indian possessions. It was really a ca
General John Jacob : commandant of the Sind Irregular Horse and founder of Jacobabad . Sir JohnKeane, as simply ^a port in Sind. Since the treatysigned in 1809, we had had some sort of relationswith the Sind Ameers. Burnes had sailed up theIndus in 1831, and had been followed in the nextyear by Colonel Pottinger, who, having negotiated asecond treaty, had been appointed British these relations and treaties were strictly commercial,and it was left for Lord Auckland to pass the doubtfulline which divides trade from politics on the bordersof our Indian possessions. It was really a case of thewolf and the lamb, though the Sind Ameers canhardly be described as lamblike ; but Lord Auckland,in pursuit of his policy, deliberately picked a tendered an iiltiniatnui which independent princes,jealous of the power they doubtless abused, could neverhave been expected to accept. We must advert after-wards to the administration of these Ameers, but theonly possible excuse for our interference then was thepolicy of necessity—the paramount duty of self-preserva-. to < < SIND IN 1838 II tion. The pretext was given by our good friend theMaharajah. On some trivial pretext he had threatenedto invade Sind ; the Beloochees were quite preparedto light him : with the help of distances, of the droughts,and their deserts, they would probably have won. LordAuckland tendered protection, which they did not that proposal was rejected he suggested mediation,and forced another unwelcome treaty, by which heestablished a resident at Hyderabad, with a guard ofBritish troops, to be settled at British discretion. Thetreaty was signed by the Governor-General, the Maharajah,and our puppet Shah Soojah. The exiled Afghanpretender ceded to us certain shadowy claims inUpper Sind, with arrears of tribute which, as wassubsequently proved, had been duly paid and formallydischarged. On the strength of that treaty, having gotour footing in the Southern capital, we sent Bu
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