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The New Review February 1945

1945

Their aim is to ichieve 'the rupture of the bonds which loin Spain to the Axis the dissolution Sf the Falange and elimination of the Falangists from the apparatus of State and especially froth the Army amnesty and the free return of political exiles freedom of... [...] S. Chatar Singh with the Darbar army under his command the state of the troops and of the Sikh population everwhere have brought matters to that crisis I have for months been looking for and we are now not on the eve of but in the midst of war with the Sikh Nation and the Kingdom of the Punjab. [...] 3 On the same day simultaneously with the intimation of this confidential declaration of war to the Resident Elliot expressed the satifaction of the Government of India in another letter to the same officer on hearing that the fortress of Govindgarh which had till then been garrisoned by Sikh troops had been made over to British troops in accordance with the terms of the Treaty of Bhyrowa [...] 'This is the present state of things and thus they should I think remain until the Government is prepared to declare that the conduct of the Lahore State has dissolved all existing engagements by the violation of the Treaty on which they were based and that the course for the future administration of the Punjab which the Government has determined to pursue (sic). [...] The nadir of this doubldealing was reached in the proclamation which Currie issued to the people of the Punjab on November 18 1848 ' and which was approved by the GovernoGeneral on December 14.3 Explaining the circumstances under which the proclamation was issued Currie wrote that as 'misrepresetations of the purposes of the British Government (in advancing an army under the Commander-
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Pages
33
Published in
United Kingdom
SARF Document ID
sarf.120030
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-i A. Lallemand view
From the World of Journals
i-iii unknown view
This Side and That
29-32 unknown view
After Poetic Sensibility and Values
33-35 unknown view
Dumbarton-Oaks
36-40 Y view
The Myth of the Second Sikh War
40-46 J.M.L. Mahajan view
In Homoeopathic Wonderland
47-53 J.H. Gense view
Some Recent Books
54-56 unknown view

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