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FROM THE ACQUISITION OF MULTAN, KASHMIR, AND PESHAWAR, TO THE DEATH OF RANJIT SINGH
1824-39
Changed Relations of the EngUsh and Sikhs—Miscellaneous Transactions Capt. Wade, the Political Agent for Sikh Affairs The Jammu Rajas Syed Ahmad Shah's Insurrection at Peshawar The Fame of Ranjit Singh— The Meeting at Rupar with Lord William Bentinck Ranjit Singh's views on Sindh, and the English Scheme of Navigating the Indus— Shah Shuja's Expeditioh of 1833-5, and Ranjit Singh's Regular Occupation of Peshawar Ladakh reduced by Raja Gulab Singh— Ranjit Singh's Claims on Shikarpur and designs on Sindh crossed by the Commercial Policy of the English The connexion of the
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Barakzais of Afghanistan Dost Muhammad retires before Ranjit Singh The Sikhs defeated by the Afghans The Marriage of Nau Nihal Singh Sir Henry Fane The English, Dost Muhammad, and the Russians, and the Restoration of Shah Shuja Ranjit Singh feels curbed by the English The Death of Ranjit Singh.
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Ranjit Singh had brought Peshawar under his 1823 sway, but the complete reduction of the province was change m yet to cost him an arduous warfare of many years. He the posihad become master of the Punjab almost unheeded by tion of the the English; but the position and views of that people ^^^^^ ^^lahad changed since they asked his aid against the **^^^^ *°. armies of Napoleon. The Jumna and the sea-coast of 2t^er^"he^^ Bombay were no longer the proclaimed limits of their year 1823. empire; the Narbada had been crossed, the states of Rajputana had been rendered tributary, and, w^ith the laudable design of diffusing wealth and of linking remote provinces together in thfe strong and useful bonds of commerce, they were about to enter upon schemes of navigation and of trade, which caused them to deprecate the ambition of the king of the Sikhs, and led them, by sure yet unforeseen steps, to absorb his dominion in their own, and to grasp, perhaps inscrutably to chasten, with the cold unfeeling hand of worldly rule, the youthful spirit of social change and religious reformation evoked by the genius of Nanak and Gobind.
CHAPTER
VII
FROM THE ACQUISITION OF MULTAN, KASHMIR, AND PESHAWAR, TO THE DEATH OF RANJIT SINGH
1824-39
Changed Relations of the EngUsh and Sikhs—Miscellaneous Transactions Capt. Wade, the Political Agent for Sikh Affairs The Jammu Rajas Syed Ahmad Shah's Insurrection at Peshawar The Fame of Ranjit Singh— The Meeting at Rupar with Lord William Bentinck Ranjit Singh's views on Sindh, and the English Scheme of Navigating the Indus— Shah Shuja's Expeditioh of 1833-5, and Ranjit Singh's Regular Occupation of Peshawar Ladakh reduced by Raja Gulab Singh— Ranjit Singh's Claims on Shikarpur and designs on Sindh crossed by the Commercial Policy of the English The connexion of the
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English
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Barakzais of Afghanistan Dost Muhammad retires before Ranjit Singh The Sikhs defeated by the Afghans The Marriage of Nau Nihal Singh Sir Henry Fane The English, Dost Muhammad, and the Russians, and the Restoration of Shah Shuja Ranjit Singh feels curbed by the English The Death of Ranjit Singh.
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Ranjit Singh had brought Peshawar under his 1823 sway, but the complete reduction of the province was change m yet to cost him an arduous warfare of many years. He the posihad become master of the Punjab almost unheeded by tion of the the English; but the position and views of that people ^^^^^ ^^lahad changed since they asked his aid against the **^^^^ *°. armies of Napoleon. The Jumna and the sea-coast of 2t^er^"he^^ Bombay were no longer the proclaimed limits of their year 1823. empire; the Narbada had been crossed, the states of Rajputana had been rendered tributary, and, w^ith the laudable design of diffusing wealth and of linking remote provinces together in thfe strong and useful bonds of commerce, they were about to enter upon schemes of navigation and of trade, which caused them to deprecate the ambition of the king of the Sikhs, and led them, by sure yet unforeseen steps, to absorb his dominion in their own, and to grasp, perhaps inscrutably to chasten, with the cold unfeeling hand of worldly rule, the youthful spirit of social change and religious reformation evoked by the genius of Nanak and Gobind.
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