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CHAPTER V
FROM THE INDEPENDENCE OF THE SIKHS TO THE ASCENDANCY OF RANJIT SINGH AND THE ALLIANCE WITH THE ENGUSH 1765—1808-9
Ahmad Shah's last Invasion of India — The Pre-eminence of
among the Sikhs— Taimur Shah's —The Phulkia Sikhs in Mariana—Zabita Khan —The Kanhaya Confederacy paramount among the Sikhs —Mahan Singh Sukerchukia becomes conspicuous—Shah — The Marathas Zaman's Invasions and Ranjit Singh's under Sindhia Predominant in Northern India —General Perron and George Thomas —Alliances of the Marathas and Sikhs — Intercourse of the English with the Sikhs —^Lord Lake's Campaigns against Sindhia and Holkar—First Treaty of the English with the Sikhs— Preparations against a French Invasion of India— Treaty of Alliance with the Bhangi Confederacy
Expeditions
rise
Ranjit
Singh,
and
of
Protection
with
Cis-Sutlej
Sikh
Chiefs.
plains from i 767 The ^he sikhs Jhelum. the banks of Karnal and Hansi to the necessity of union was no longer paramount, and rude hurried intc untaught men are ever prone to give the rein to their activity by Ahmad passions, and to prefer their own interests to the wel^"""^ fancied fare of the community. Some dwelt on real or ^^^^^^^^^ injuries, and thought the time had come for ample j^ ^ i^g?. vengeance; others were moved by local associations to grasp at neighbouring towns and districts; and the truer Sikh alone at once resolved to extend his faith, and to add to the general domain of the Khalsa, by complete conquest or by the imposition of tribute. When thus about to arise, after their short repose, refreshed and variously inclined, they were again awed into unanimity by the final descent of Ahmad Shah. That monarch, whose activity and power declined with increase of years and the progress of disease, made yet another attempt to recover the Punjab, the most fertile of his provinces. He crossed the Indus in 1767, but he avoided Lahore and advanced no farther than the Sutlej. He endeavoured to conciliate when he could no longer overcome, and he bestowed the title of Maharaja, and the office of military commander in Sirhind, upon the warlike Amar Singh, who Amar had succeeded his grandfather as chief of Patiala, cr singh of
The Sikhs had mastered the upper
FROM THE INDEPENDENCE OF THE SIKHS TO THE ASCENDANCY OF RANJIT SINGH AND THE ALLIANCE WITH THE ENGUSH 1765—1808-9
Ahmad Shah's last Invasion of India — The Pre-eminence of
among the Sikhs— Taimur Shah's —The Phulkia Sikhs in Mariana—Zabita Khan —The Kanhaya Confederacy paramount among the Sikhs —Mahan Singh Sukerchukia becomes conspicuous—Shah — The Marathas Zaman's Invasions and Ranjit Singh's under Sindhia Predominant in Northern India —General Perron and George Thomas —Alliances of the Marathas and Sikhs — Intercourse of the English with the Sikhs —^Lord Lake's Campaigns against Sindhia and Holkar—First Treaty of the English with the Sikhs— Preparations against a French Invasion of India— Treaty of Alliance with the Bhangi Confederacy
Expeditions
rise
Ranjit
Singh,
and
of
Protection
with
Cis-Sutlej
Sikh
Chiefs.
plains from i 767 The ^he sikhs Jhelum. the banks of Karnal and Hansi to the necessity of union was no longer paramount, and rude hurried intc untaught men are ever prone to give the rein to their activity by Ahmad passions, and to prefer their own interests to the wel^"""^ fancied fare of the community. Some dwelt on real or ^^^^^^^^^ injuries, and thought the time had come for ample j^ ^ i^g?. vengeance; others were moved by local associations to grasp at neighbouring towns and districts; and the truer Sikh alone at once resolved to extend his faith, and to add to the general domain of the Khalsa, by complete conquest or by the imposition of tribute. When thus about to arise, after their short repose, refreshed and variously inclined, they were again awed into unanimity by the final descent of Ahmad Shah. That monarch, whose activity and power declined with increase of years and the progress of disease, made yet another attempt to recover the Punjab, the most fertile of his provinces. He crossed the Indus in 1767, but he avoided Lahore and advanced no farther than the Sutlej. He endeavoured to conciliate when he could no longer overcome, and he bestowed the title of Maharaja, and the office of military commander in Sirhind, upon the warlike Amar Singh, who Amar had succeeded his grandfather as chief of Patiala, cr singh of
The Sikhs had mastered the upper
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