ABSTRACT
The law and order situation continuously deteriorated during the weeks which followed the collapse of the Coalition Ministry. The British had barely restored order in the Rawalpindi and Multan divisions, when serious disorders swept the Gurgaon district. More than fifty villages were destroyed in the fighting between the Meos and Jats which spread over 1,000 square miles of countryside. 1 Initially only just over 300 troops could be spared, with the result that several areas temporarily slipped out of British control. 2
