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186 1836.
if
CHAP. VII
show how completely he professed to forget or
to
the check imposed on him, he invited ths Governor-General to be present at Lahore on the occasion of the marriage of the grandson whom he had hoped to hail as the conqueror of Sind.^ Nevertheless he continued to entertain a hope that his objects might one day be attained; he avoided a distinct settlement of the boundary with the Amirs, and of the question Yet conof supremacy over the Mazaris.- Neither was he distinues to posed to relinquish Rojhan; the place remained a Sikh hold Rojhan possession, and it may be regarded to have become forwith ulterior mally such by the submission of the chief of the tribe views. in the year 1838.'^ Retrospect. It is now necessary to go back for some years to The English trace the connexion of the English Government with and Barakthe Barakzai rulers of Afghanistan. Muhammad Azim za,s, Khan died in 1823, as has been mentioned, immediately 1829-36. forgive
after Peshawar became tributary to the Sikhs. His son Habib-ullah nominally succeeded to the supremacy
which Fateh Khan and Muhammad Azim had both exercised; but it soon became evident that the mind of the youth was unsettled, and his violent proceedings enabled his crafty and unscrupulous uncle, Dost Muhammad Khan, to seize Kabul, Ghazni, and Jalalabad as his
Sultan Mu-
hammad Khan cits
soli-
the
own, while a second
set of his brothers held
Kandahar in virtual independence, and a third governed Peshawar as the tributaries of Ranjit Singh.** In the year 1824 Mr. Moorcroft, the traveller, was upon the whole well Satisfied with the treatment he received from the Barakzais, although their patronage cost him money."^ A few years afterwards Sultan Muhammad Khan of Peshawar, who had most to fear from strangopened a communication with the political agent at Ludhiana,'' and in 1829 he wished to negotiate as an
ers,
tha power as a reason for remaining, under all and any circumstances, on good terms with his European allies. See also Col. Wade's Narrative of Personal Services, p. 44, note. [Though the Maharaja kept loyally to his treaty of friendship with the English, he occasionally manifested some suspicion of their victorious advance in India. On one occasion he was shown a map of the country in which the English possessions were marked in red. The Maharaja asked what the red portions indicated, and on being told tossed the map aside with the impatient remark. Sab lal hojaega (All will become red). Ed.] Capt. Wade to Government, 5th Jan. 1837. Capt. Wade to Government, 13th and 15th Feb., 8th July, and 10th Aug. 1837. Capt. Wade to Government, 9th Jan. 1838. Cf. Moorcroft, Travels, ii. 345, &c, and Munshi Mohan Lal, Life of Dost Muhammad Khan, i. 130, 153, &c. ^ Moorcroft, Travels, ii. 346, 347. "Capt. Wade to the Resident at Delhi, 21st April 1828. 1
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186 1836.
if
CHAP. VII
show how completely he professed to forget or
to
the check imposed on him, he invited ths Governor-General to be present at Lahore on the occasion of the marriage of the grandson whom he had hoped to hail as the conqueror of Sind.^ Nevertheless he continued to entertain a hope that his objects might one day be attained; he avoided a distinct settlement of the boundary with the Amirs, and of the question Yet conof supremacy over the Mazaris.- Neither was he distinues to posed to relinquish Rojhan; the place remained a Sikh hold Rojhan possession, and it may be regarded to have become forwith ulterior mally such by the submission of the chief of the tribe views. in the year 1838.'^ Retrospect. It is now necessary to go back for some years to The English trace the connexion of the English Government with and Barakthe Barakzai rulers of Afghanistan. Muhammad Azim za,s, Khan died in 1823, as has been mentioned, immediately 1829-36. forgive
after Peshawar became tributary to the Sikhs. His son Habib-ullah nominally succeeded to the supremacy
which Fateh Khan and Muhammad Azim had both exercised; but it soon became evident that the mind of the youth was unsettled, and his violent proceedings enabled his crafty and unscrupulous uncle, Dost Muhammad Khan, to seize Kabul, Ghazni, and Jalalabad as his
Sultan Mu-
hammad Khan cits
soli-
the
own, while a second
set of his brothers held
Kandahar in virtual independence, and a third governed Peshawar as the tributaries of Ranjit Singh.** In the year 1824 Mr. Moorcroft, the traveller, was upon the whole well Satisfied with the treatment he received from the Barakzais, although their patronage cost him money."^ A few years afterwards Sultan Muhammad Khan of Peshawar, who had most to fear from strangopened a communication with the political agent at Ludhiana,'' and in 1829 he wished to negotiate as an
ers,
tha power as a reason for remaining, under all and any circumstances, on good terms with his European allies. See also Col. Wade's Narrative of Personal Services, p. 44, note. [Though the Maharaja kept loyally to his treaty of friendship with the English, he occasionally manifested some suspicion of their victorious advance in India. On one occasion he was shown a map of the country in which the English possessions were marked in red. The Maharaja asked what the red portions indicated, and on being told tossed the map aside with the impatient remark. Sab lal hojaega (All will become red). Ed.] Capt. Wade to Government, 5th Jan. 1837. Capt. Wade to Government, 13th and 15th Feb., 8th July, and 10th Aug. 1837. Capt. Wade to Government, 9th Jan. 1838. Cf. Moorcroft, Travels, ii. 345, &c, and Munshi Mohan Lal, Life of Dost Muhammad Khan, i. 130, 153, &c. ^ Moorcroft, Travels, ii. 346, 347. "Capt. Wade to the Resident at Delhi, 21st April 1828. 1
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