(An extract from Daily Argosy, August 8, 1913)

Among the immigrants who left the colony by the Chenab last week were two notorious characters, Maula Bux, the ‘failed RA’ who played a prominent part in the Rose Hall troubles, and Ramchand, ex-soldier, Brahmin and ringleader in the troubles in Diamond last year.

The former (Bux) according to his own account, is the son of the Rev. Joshua Jacob, a native clergyman of the Church of England, and Maula Bux’s real name is Gibson Jacob. Having failed to take a degree in college he ran away from home and met a recruiter in the service of our agent in Calcutta and was persuaded to emigrate under an assumed Mahommedan name. At Rose Hall he was found to be utterly incapable of doing field work, and light work in the factory and odd jobs of an easy nature had to be found for him. Notwithstanding the consideration shewn him by the authorities on the estate he at an early age constituted himself the friend and counsellor of his countrymen and an exponent of the law relating to them. There seems to be little doubt that the malcontents at Rose Hall were largely influenced by this man’s advice and it is likely that there would not have occurred such disastrous results had they not listened to him. He was removed from Rose Hall after serving three and a half months only and as no other employer would be found willing to take him under indenture, he was kept at the Immigration Depot at the expense of Rose Hall until the departure of the Chenab.

The other man (Ramchand) was of a different type: tall, well built and intelligent looking. The trouble with him was not that he could not do agricultural work – although it was not the sort he had been accustomed to - but because he was quarrelsome and insubordinate. He was first at Wales where he quarreled with the other indentured coolies and had to be transferred to Diamond. Here he was the leader in all the strikes