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Rulers of India. Ranjit Singh and the Sikh Barrier between our growing Empire and Central Asia

1905

They contain in full detail the histories of all the great Sikh families in the Punjab proper and the Cis-Sutlej territories of the men who were the courtiers the advisers and generals of the great Maharaja. [...] Al-INTRODUCTORY 17 though the hands of the English were clean in the matter of the Sikh wars and in the annexation of the Punjab which were forced unwillingly upon them by the fierce and uncontrolled passions of the Sikh chiefs and people yet there can be little doubt that even if the contest with the English had been delayed and the successors of Ranjft Singh had clung as he did to the Bri [...] The Manjha is the name of the southern portion of the Bari Doab (the word doab signifying a tract of country between two rivers hero the Leas and the Ravi) in the neighbourhood of the cities of Lahore and Amritsar ; and the Manjha Sikhs by a convenient enlargement of the terms may be held to include all those who at the time of the final dissolution of the Muhammadan power were resident to th [...] Govind Singh's next step was to adapt the Sikh scriptures to his own views and with this object he endeavoured to induce the guardians of the Adi Granth at the sacred city of Kartarpur to permit him to make additions to it ; but the Sodhis the Sikh priests who had the guardianship of the sacred volume and who were the descendants of Gpru Ram Das refused to accept the authority of the new leader [...] The history of the Sikhs from the death of Guru Govind Singh to the birth of Ranjit Singh can only be briefly noticed the more so as I have already given a sketch of the origin and character of the -Sikhs and their creed so that it may be readily understood what were the men whom the great Maharaja ruled and the nature of the doctrine of which he became the official representative.
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Pages
218
Published in
United Kingdom
SARF Document ID
sarf.146122
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Frontmatter
i-iii Lepel Griffin view
Chapter I. Introduotory
9-18 Lepel Griffin view
Chapter II. The Sikhs
19-38 Lepel Griffin view
Chapter III. The Sikh Theocracy
39-69 Lepel Griffin view
Chapter IV. The State of the Punjab at Ranjit Singh’s Birth
70-87 Lepel Griffin view
Chapter V. The Mahárájá
88-110 Lepel Griffin view
Chapter VI. The Court of Ranjit Singh
111-131 Lepel Griffin view
Chapter VII. The Army and Administration of the Mahárájá
132-152 Lepel Griffin view
Chapter VIII. His Early Conquests
153-166 Lepel Griffin view
Chapter IX. The English and the Cis-Sutlet Territory
167-181 Lepel Griffin view
Chapter X. Later Conquests
182-220 Lepel Griffin view
Index
221-223 Lepel Griffin view

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