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5 HISTORY OF THE SIKHS.
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7 VVe have now given an outline of the great
8 founder of the Sikh monarchy; his warlike career
9 » fe well-known to English readers, through Prinsep’s
10 Life of Emjeet Singh, compiled from records ob-
11 i twined by the late Captain Murray, and tne pte-
12 1 sent Sir C. M. Wade. We have not copied either.
13 Our first source of information was a history of the
14 Maharajah kept by a Mussulman family in the
15 Punjab, natives of W ittala, and carefully translated
16 by ourselves from the work rendered into Oordoo
17 by our worthy friend Abdoolashah. VV e at first
18 intended to leave out the military career of the
19 Maharajah, but wishing to form a continuous
20 history, we trust our readers will excuse us, if
21 they do not find anything now in this portion of
22 our work. Our only regret is, that we had not
23 * the good fortune of knowing the Maharajah at an
24 earlier period of his career; but we trust the
25 opportunities enjoyed by us were not altogether
26 thrown away. We have endeavoured to give the
27 character of the. Maharajah in its true light, as
28 well as his views regarding his allies, the British.
29 Among all the princes of the East, there were none
30 who ever preserved their alliance with greater care
31 than Runjeet Singh; and it will be seen in the
32 sequel, that the British government in India was
33 not unmindful of this when securing to his son the
34 throne of Lahore.
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