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HISTORY OF THE SIKHS
!66 1827-8.
CHAP. VII
returned by the deputation of Capt. Wade, the British frontier authority, to the Maharaja's court. During the following year the English. Commander-in-Chief arrived at Ludhiana, and Ranjit Singh sent an agent to convey to him his good wishes; but an expected invitation, to visit the strongholds of the Punjab was not given to the captor of Bharatpur.^
Lord Combermere, the British
Commander-in-Chief.
Capt. Wade the
made
immediate agent for the affairs of Lahore, 1827.
Discussions
about rights to districts
sou til of the Sutlej. 1827-8.
Anandpur, Whadni. Ferozepore, &c.
The little business to be transacted between the British and Sikh governments was entrusted to the management of the Resident at Delhi, who gave his orders to Capt. Murray, the political agent at Ambala, who again had under him an assistant, Capt. Wade, at Ludhiana, mainly in connexion with the affairs of the garrison of that place. When Capt. Wade was at Lahore, the Maharaja expressed a wish that, for the sake of dispatch in business, the agency for his CisSutlej possessions should be vested in the officer at Ludhiana subordinate to the resident at Delhi, but independent of the officer at Ambala.^ This wish was complied with; ^ but in attempting to define the extent of the territories in question, it was found that there were several doubtful points to be settled. Ranjit Singh claimed supremacy over Chamkaur, and Anandpur Makhowal, and other places belonging to the Sodhis, or collateral representatives of Guru Gobind. He also claimed Whadni,which, a few years before, had been wrested from him on the plea that it was his mother-in-law's; and he claimed Ferozepore, then held
Government to Capt. Wade, 2nd May, 1827. Murray, Ranjit Ranjit, p. 147. About this time the journeyings and studies of the enthusiastic scholar Csoma de Koros', and the establishment of Simla as a British post, had made the Chinese of Tibet as curious about the English in one way as Ranjit Singh was in another. Thus the authorities at Garo appear to have addressed the authorities of Bissehir, an English dependency, saying, 'that in ancient times there was no mention of the "Filingha" (i.e. Faranghis or Franks), a bad and small people, whereas now many visited the upper countries every year, and had caused the chief of Bissehir to make preparations for their movements. The Great Lama was displeased, and armies had been ordered to be watched. The 1
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English should be urged to keep within their own limits, or, if they wanted an alliance, they could go by sea to Pekin. The people of Bissehir should not rely on the wealth and the expertness in warfaring of the English: the emperor was 30 paktsat (120 miles) higher than they; he ruled over the four elements; a war would involve the six nations of Asia in calamities; the English should remain within their boundaries;' and so on, in a ptrain of deprecation and hyperbole. (Political Agent, Sabathu, to Resident at Delhi, 26th March 1827.) 3 Capt. Wade to Resident at Delhi, 20th June 1827. 4 Government to Resident at Delhi, 4th Oct. 1827.
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!66 1827-8.
CHAP. VII
returned by the deputation of Capt. Wade, the British frontier authority, to the Maharaja's court. During the following year the English. Commander-in-Chief arrived at Ludhiana, and Ranjit Singh sent an agent to convey to him his good wishes; but an expected invitation, to visit the strongholds of the Punjab was not given to the captor of Bharatpur.^
Lord Combermere, the British
Commander-in-Chief.
Capt. Wade the
made
immediate agent for the affairs of Lahore, 1827.
Discussions
about rights to districts
sou til of the Sutlej. 1827-8.
Anandpur, Whadni. Ferozepore, &c.
The little business to be transacted between the British and Sikh governments was entrusted to the management of the Resident at Delhi, who gave his orders to Capt. Murray, the political agent at Ambala, who again had under him an assistant, Capt. Wade, at Ludhiana, mainly in connexion with the affairs of the garrison of that place. When Capt. Wade was at Lahore, the Maharaja expressed a wish that, for the sake of dispatch in business, the agency for his CisSutlej possessions should be vested in the officer at Ludhiana subordinate to the resident at Delhi, but independent of the officer at Ambala.^ This wish was complied with; ^ but in attempting to define the extent of the territories in question, it was found that there were several doubtful points to be settled. Ranjit Singh claimed supremacy over Chamkaur, and Anandpur Makhowal, and other places belonging to the Sodhis, or collateral representatives of Guru Gobind. He also claimed Whadni,which, a few years before, had been wrested from him on the plea that it was his mother-in-law's; and he claimed Ferozepore, then held
Government to Capt. Wade, 2nd May, 1827. Murray, Ranjit Ranjit, p. 147. About this time the journeyings and studies of the enthusiastic scholar Csoma de Koros', and the establishment of Simla as a British post, had made the Chinese of Tibet as curious about the English in one way as Ranjit Singh was in another. Thus the authorities at Garo appear to have addressed the authorities of Bissehir, an English dependency, saying, 'that in ancient times there was no mention of the "Filingha" (i.e. Faranghis or Franks), a bad and small people, whereas now many visited the upper countries every year, and had caused the chief of Bissehir to make preparations for their movements. The Great Lama was displeased, and armies had been ordered to be watched. The 1
2
English should be urged to keep within their own limits, or, if they wanted an alliance, they could go by sea to Pekin. The people of Bissehir should not rely on the wealth and the expertness in warfaring of the English: the emperor was 30 paktsat (120 miles) higher than they; he ruled over the four elements; a war would involve the six nations of Asia in calamities; the English should remain within their boundaries;' and so on, in a ptrain of deprecation and hyperbole. (Political Agent, Sabathu, to Resident at Delhi, 26th March 1827.) 3 Capt. Wade to Resident at Delhi, 20th June 1827. 4 Government to Resident at Delhi, 4th Oct. 1827.
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