1 PREFACE, vii
2 incorporated in tis book as, after the exercise of due diligence and
3 caution, were frand to be supported by concurrent testimony, or as
4 seemed to recive corroboration from works which may be accepted
5 as authoritis on the subject of Indian history.
6 My tas, however, in spite of its difficulties, and the years of toil
7 bestowed on it, has been to me a labour of love; and, now that it
8 is at ar end, I feel that the time employed on it could not have been
9 devot:d to a worthier purpose. I have brought the history of the Pan-
10 jab down tothe present time, in the hope that it may find readers
11 awong the friends of civilization and of English progress generally,
12 es well as among students, and at the same time I venture to hope .
13 that the learned public may find in it a succinct and comprehensive
14 history of this country.
15 Tt has not been thought necessary to append references to histo-
16 rical facts in every instance, as this would have swelled the work
17 with footnotes. Numerous works of Oriental history have been
18 consulted ; but my acknowledgments are chiefly due to those of
19 Sir William Jones, Briggs’ celebrated translation of Ferishta, Sir
20 H. M. Elliot’s Historians of India, the History of India, by the
21 Honorable Mountstuart Elphinstone ; the works of Murray, Taylor,
22 Marshman, Mill, Talboys Wheeler, Keene, Fraser and MacFarlane.
23 For the ancient portions of the history, I am indebted to the excel-
24 lent works of Dr. Hunter, General Cunningham, McCrindle, Dunker,
25 Thomas Maurice, Ludlow, Tavernier, and the Rev. Mr. Hunter.
26 In writing the Mahomedan period, the Atbarndéma of Sheikh Abul
27 Fazl, the Tabakdt-i-Akbari of Moulana Nizdm-ud-din Ahmad, the
28 Ain-i-Akbari, by Professor Blochmann, the Syrul-Muta Akhirin, of
29 Mir Gholam Husein Khan, translated by Briggs, the Hadzkatul Akd-
30 lim of Murtaz4 Husein, the Bhadshahnama of Mulla Abdul Hamid,
31 of Lahore, the Ikbdlndma Jahdngirit of Mutamid Khan, the Alamgir-
32 ndma of Mahomed Kazim, and the Moasir-i-Alamgirz of Mahomed
33 Saki, were also consulted. For the portion relating to the Sikhs, I
34 am. obliged to the works of Sir John Malcolm, McGregor, Cunning-
35 ham, Prinsep, Smyth, to the Panjab Rdjds and Panjab Chiefs, by
36 Sir Lepel Griffin, Dr. Honighbergher’s Thirty-jive Years in the East,
37 Moorcroft’s Travels, Burne’s Travels, to the narrative of journeys by
38 Masson and Victor Jacquemont, and to Dr. Trumpp’s translation of
39 the Adi Granth. For the account of the Sikh wars and the Mutiny,
40 I am chiefly indebted to the History of the Panjab by Thornton,
41 Nolan’s British Empire, Kaye’s Sepoy War, The Crisis of the Panjab
42 by Frederick Cooper, and The Panjab and Delhi in 1857, by the Rev.
43 J.Cave-Brown. The chapter on the trade and industries of the Pan-
44 jab I owe to official reports, especially to the excellent works of Mr.
45 Baden-Powell. In describing the aborigines of the Panjib and the
46 customs of the Hindus, and for the statistical portion of the history
47 I could not have done without consulting the able official reports
48 drawn up by Mr. Denzil J. Ibbetson. I have also to thank many
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