1 HISTORY OF THE SIKHS.
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3 Julian Khan was angry, and ordered the fukeer’s
4 Hut to be burned to the ground. The defeat: of
5 the Khan was, of course, attributed to this act.
6 After this signal victory, the Sikhs became more
7 daring' and insolent, laying waste the surrounding
8 country. Every sirdar appropriated a portion to
9 himself, and named it after his native village, such
10 as Ramghureea, AlloOwalya; others from their
11 habits, as Bhunjeea.®
12 On the death of Ahmed Shah Douranee. his son Tin ™ (,r SMi
13 tmablc to op-
14 Timoor Shah succeeded to the Musnud. Being P rtSe tlie Sikhs
15 unable to manage his Omrahs, or contend with
16 them, as he was then at war with the King of Bo¬
17 khara and the Zemindars of Scinde, it was out of
18 Ills power to settle the affairs of the Punjab, or dis¬
19 pute the claims of the Sikhs to the country. Each
20 sirdar, therefore, kept his own followers, and took
21 . possession of his own district, taking under his pro¬
22 tection those Zemindars who revolted from Timoor
23 Shah.
24 • The country of the Sikhs thus extended from E . xt< “ nt of «*»«
25 ... . • Sikh posses-
26 ' haharimpore on the east, to the Attock on the
27 west; Mooltan and Scinde were the boundaries on
28 the south, and Kote Kangra, Junnnoo, and
29 Bhember on the north. Each independent Sirdar AmieiMedi-
30 1 vision of land.
31 kept possession of his own territory, nor encroached
32 on that of his neighbour. In some instances, per-
33 gunnahs, or districts, were divided between two, and
34 each received half the revenue of the whole.
35 * Extract of bhung, an intoxicating drug obtained from the Cannabis
36 I ndipa,