Rebellion against the British East India Company After the
British East India Company bombarded the temple of Krishna in
Bet Dwarka and sacked the town in the 1800s, the Hindu Waghers of
Okha rose up against the company. On the seas they took to piracy and targeted British ships. Attempts at peace were thwarted after the British set a trap for Mulu Manek, one of the Wagher leaders, with the pretext of negotiating disarmament. Also, during the course of the war the Wagher leader Jodha Manek and his soldiers seized
Kodinar. The Waghers made their final stand at the Aabhparo peak in the Barda Hills, during the course of which the British poisoned natural water reservoirs in order to draw the Waghers out. In the aftermath of this war the British occupied of the region of
Okha and transferred it to
Baroda State. British colonial authorities held racist views towards the Waghers, with Kincaid describing them as a 'tribe born of thieves'. Colonial theories attempted to discredit the Hindu identity of martial jātis including the Waghers and attempted to find or concoct theories suggestive of a foreign origin based on scant evidence. ==Present circumstances==