1 56-4 HISTORY OF THE PANJAB,
2 ud-din was sent with a force of upwards of two thousand men and two guns
3 against the rebels at Jhang under Nardin Singh, one of Mil Raj’s most
4 active officers, and the Sheikh drove them out of Jhang and pursued them
5 to Chiniot, where they subsequently surrendered to General Whish, All
6 these circumstances combined led to a council of war, at which it was re-
7 aie operations of the solved to suspend, for the present, the siege of Multan. Accordingly, the
8 ~~ British troops were recalled from the trenches and took up a position on
9 the plains of Suraj Kund.
10 Theinteigues of Rani Meanwhile, the Rani had been most active in her intrigues. In May
11 Jindan, a plot of considerable extent, inspired by her, was detected at Lahore,
12 having for its object the defection of the native troops, and two of the
13 ringleaders, General Kahn Singh and Bhdi Ganga Ram, the confidential agent
14 of the Rani, were executed. Being involved in several dangerous schemes,
15 she was, on the 20th of August, induced to quit L&hore, and was, by the
16 advice of the Darbdér, and with the consent of the Governor-General, re-
17 moved to Shekhipura, twenty miles from the capital. She continued to
18 embarrass the government by her intrigues, and, her presence in the Panjab
19 being found incompatible with the proper administration of the country,
20 she was taken under a strong escort to Ferozepur and thence removed to
21 Sheisremovelto Benares, Even in this exile she was not quiet. She sent an agent to
22 ee Calcutta to engage the services of an attorney to plead her cause, and she
23 contrived to send messages to native States in the Panjab and westward of
24 Delhi to induce the chiefs to subvert the power of the British in those
25 The whole of the countries. The whole of the Panjab became a scene of covert disaffection.
26 dante teens with Both Major Abbot, the Political Officer of Hazdrd, and Lieutenant Nicholson,
27 in charge of the fortress at Attack, urgently required reinforcements to
28 maintain their ground. In the beginning of November, Peshawar revolted.
29 Major George Lawrence, the Political Officer with his lady and Lieutenant
30 Bowie, escaped to Kohat, where the treacherous Afghan governor gave them
31 up to Chattar Singh, who treated them with consideration and kept them
32 as hostages. At Bannu, Colonel Holmes, a European officer of the Sikh
33 army, was murdered by his own troops. A short time after, Malik Fatteh
34 The insurrectionat Khan, Tiwdndé, who had been sent by Major Edwardes as Governor of
35 eee Banni, was besieged by the Sikh army in the fort of Dalipgarh. The
36 ° rebels called on the Malik to surrender. Fatteh Khan, taking his sword
37 _ The spirited conduct and shield, ordered the gate of the fort.to be thrown open. He then walked
38 ee ae out and cried loudly to the mutineers, “I am Malik Fatteh Khan, Tiwdnd!
39 Do not shoot me like a dog, but if there are any two of you who are equal
40 to a man, come on!” With frantic yells, the Sikh soldiery rushed upon him,
41 calling out, “ You are he who murdered our Prince, Peshord Singh, and we
42 He is siain, will murder you.” He was instantly pierced through by a hundred bullets,
43 and fell. “ Nobly, fatally,” observes Sir Herbert Edwardes, “ he had redeemed
44 his pledge.” “In the war of 1848-49,” continues Sir Herbert, “I met with
45 many instances of attachment and gratitude which raised my estimate of
46 the natives of India, but none more truly touching than the death of Malik
47 Fatteh Khan, Tiwdnd, on the threshold of the fort he promised to defend.”
48 Reeser Dost Muhammad, to whom M4] Réj had sent his envoys, was raising a large
49 Jalalabad. army at K4bul, and had sent’a part of it in advance to Jalléla&béd, with the
50 view of eventually seizing Peshdwar. He had also sent one of his sons, at
51 the head of a force, to occupy Bannt. The chiefs of Kandahar had
52 The duplicity o¢ Opened negotiations with Mal Rdj, while the wily chief of Kashmir, on.
53 Gulab Singh, whom the Panjéb conspirators had fixed their eyes for help, had the astute-
54 ness to keep on good terms with both parties, About the end of September,
55 Sri Satghhh PaGiiesingetihel Bit) Sher Singh NmehapbitbtaryG@tambliccoRritish, the