ABSTRACT
When it came to choosing the men to be imprisoned, Johnstone and Munro's main aim seems to have been as much to ensure that a hold was kept over the tribe in the future as actually to punish the ringleaders. The Muhammad Khels paid revenue and were therefore British subjects and could not legally be treated as hostages, but the men selected were to be used for all intents and purposes as such, and so influential men, or their close relatives, chosen from as wide a spread of sections as possible were chosen. As Munro said, the object was 'partly to deter the tribe from further illegal acts and partly to mark the leaders in those which have been committed'.6 Madaman Fatma Khel, Shah Jahan Girani Khel and Bari Lolia Khel were each to be imprisoned for five years, and Zahid Gulab Khel, Doulat Mirza Khel and Jabul Koda Khel for three.7
