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HISTORY OF THE SIKHS
104 1779-93.
Taimur Shal^ of
Kabul recovers Muitan. 1779.
CHAP. V
tion of Jassa Singh's authority over the surrounding Rajas and Thakurs.^ In the south of the Punjab the Bhangi Sikhs continued predominant; they seem to have possessed the strong fort of Mankera as well as Multan, and to have
levied
exactions
from Kalabagh downwards.
They
made an attempt to carry Shujabad, a place built by the Afghans on losing Multan, but seem to have failed. Taimur Shah, who succeeded his father in 1773, was at last induced or enabled to cross the Indus, but his views were directed towards Sind, Bhawalpur, and the Lower Punjab, and he seems to have had no thought of
a reconquest of Lahore. In the course of 1777-8, two detachments of the Kabul army unsuccessfully endeavoured to dislodge the Sikhs from Multan, but in the season of 1778-9 the Shah marched in person against Taimur Shah dies, leaving the Sikhs masters of the Upper Punjab as far as Attock, 1793.
the place. Ghanda Singh, the new leader of the Bhangis, was embroiled with other Sikh chiefs, and his lieutenant surrendered the citadel after a show of resistance. Taimur Shah reigned until 1793, but he was fully occupied with Sindian, Kashmiri, and Uzbeg rebellions; the Sikhs were even unmolested in their possession of Rawalpindi, and their predatory horse traversed the plains of Chach up to the walls of Attock.2 In the direction of Hariana and Delhi, the young
The Phulkias master
Hariana. 1768-78.
An expedition sent
from Delhi against the
Malwa Sikhs. 1779-80.
Amar Singh Phulkia began systematically to extend and consolidate his authority. He acquired Sirsa and Fatehabad, his territories marched with those of Bikaner and Bhawalpur, and his feudatories of Jind and Kaithal possessed the open country around Hansi and Rohtak. He was recalled to his capital of Patiala by a final effort of the Delhi court to re-establish its authority in the province of Sirhind. An army, headed by the minister of the day, and by Farkhunda Bukht, one of the imperial family, marched in the season 1779-80. Karnal was recovered; some payments were promised; and the eminent Krora-Singhia leader, Baghel Singh, The memoirs of the Bhawalpur chief and manuscript Sikh accounts. Cf. Murray, Ranjit Singh, p. 38, &c.; and Forster, 1
Travels, i. 283, 286, 336. Ranjit Deo, of Jammu, died in a.d. 1770. Charat Singh was killed accidentally, and
Jhanda Singh was assassinated,, in 1774. Hari Singh Bhangi appears to have been killed in battle with Amar Singh of Patiala, about 1770.
Memoirs of the Bhawalpur chief, and other manuscript Browne, India Tracts, ii. 28, and Forster, Travels, 324; Elphinstone (Kabul, ii. 303) makes 1781, and not 1779, the date of the recovery of Multan from the Sikhs. -
histories. Cf. 1.
104 1779-93.
Taimur Shal^ of
Kabul recovers Muitan. 1779.
CHAP. V
tion of Jassa Singh's authority over the surrounding Rajas and Thakurs.^ In the south of the Punjab the Bhangi Sikhs continued predominant; they seem to have possessed the strong fort of Mankera as well as Multan, and to have
levied
exactions
from Kalabagh downwards.
They
made an attempt to carry Shujabad, a place built by the Afghans on losing Multan, but seem to have failed. Taimur Shah, who succeeded his father in 1773, was at last induced or enabled to cross the Indus, but his views were directed towards Sind, Bhawalpur, and the Lower Punjab, and he seems to have had no thought of
a reconquest of Lahore. In the course of 1777-8, two detachments of the Kabul army unsuccessfully endeavoured to dislodge the Sikhs from Multan, but in the season of 1778-9 the Shah marched in person against Taimur Shah dies, leaving the Sikhs masters of the Upper Punjab as far as Attock, 1793.
the place. Ghanda Singh, the new leader of the Bhangis, was embroiled with other Sikh chiefs, and his lieutenant surrendered the citadel after a show of resistance. Taimur Shah reigned until 1793, but he was fully occupied with Sindian, Kashmiri, and Uzbeg rebellions; the Sikhs were even unmolested in their possession of Rawalpindi, and their predatory horse traversed the plains of Chach up to the walls of Attock.2 In the direction of Hariana and Delhi, the young
The Phulkias master
Hariana. 1768-78.
An expedition sent
from Delhi against the
Malwa Sikhs. 1779-80.
Amar Singh Phulkia began systematically to extend and consolidate his authority. He acquired Sirsa and Fatehabad, his territories marched with those of Bikaner and Bhawalpur, and his feudatories of Jind and Kaithal possessed the open country around Hansi and Rohtak. He was recalled to his capital of Patiala by a final effort of the Delhi court to re-establish its authority in the province of Sirhind. An army, headed by the minister of the day, and by Farkhunda Bukht, one of the imperial family, marched in the season 1779-80. Karnal was recovered; some payments were promised; and the eminent Krora-Singhia leader, Baghel Singh, The memoirs of the Bhawalpur chief and manuscript Sikh accounts. Cf. Murray, Ranjit Singh, p. 38, &c.; and Forster, 1
Travels, i. 283, 286, 336. Ranjit Deo, of Jammu, died in a.d. 1770. Charat Singh was killed accidentally, and
Jhanda Singh was assassinated,, in 1774. Hari Singh Bhangi appears to have been killed in battle with Amar Singh of Patiala, about 1770.
Memoirs of the Bhawalpur chief, and other manuscript Browne, India Tracts, ii. 28, and Forster, Travels, 324; Elphinstone (Kabul, ii. 303) makes 1781, and not 1779, the date of the recovery of Multan from the Sikhs. -
histories. Cf. 1.
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