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On my way to Dharamsala, I broke my journey at Bhadwar to find father suffering from pneumonia. He told me not to worry and proceed to Dharamsala for my case and asked me to send his favourite physician, Raghvanand, from Dharamsala to Bhadwar. I immediately sent a telegram to Pandit Sunder Lal, our old friend and physician, in whom father had great confidence. requesting him to come to Bhadwar. On my return from Dharamsala I found him at father’s bedside. I also sent my Munshi to Lahore to bring Dr. Ganeshi Lal with an oxygen apparatus. But before Dr. Ganeshi Lal arrived, father suddenly died on the 15th of December, 1929. Thus I lost both my parents during this year as well as a dear uncle and a daughter and had to run backward and forward from place to place.
I became legal adviser to the Chamba Darbar in I930. There was great upheaval in Chamba then. A sensation was created there by the arrest of a few respectable people whom the administration suspected of disloyalty to the ruling prince. They had been locked up without a charge-sheet and were being kept in jail without trial. I was asked to come to Chamba for advising the Maharaja. I tried to avoid taking a trip to Chamba in the cold weather.
particularly when it was snowing. Eventually, on persistent telegrams form His Highness, I had no alternative left but to undertake this trip. It was snowing all the way from Dalhousie to Chamba. In order to reach my journey’s end I had to travel now on foot; now on horseback. On perusing the papers which the administration showed me, I discovered that these people had been locked up without any just cause. I advised the British Political Adviser to the State to set them free. My advice was followed and peace returned to Chamba.
During this year I purchased a new Graham-Paige landaeu-body car. On a trip to Pathankot from Lahore. I was driving the car in the early hours of the morning when I fell asleep at the wheel.
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