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2 renewed his father's leases and engagements with Run-
3 JEET Singh, for the territory he held west and north
4 of tLe Sutlej. In September, a qaestiou arose apon the
5 application of Qootub-ood-deen of Kasoor to be re-
6 ceived under British protection, as holder of Mundot
7 and Ramnawala on the left bank of the Sutlej, but the
8 feudatory relations this chief had come under to Runjeet
9 Singh for these, as for his other possessions, forbad
10 the British Government from holding out the hope that
11 he could be received under protection as an indepen-
12 dent Chief. An ansucces«ful attempt by Beer Singh,
13 Ex-Raja of Noorpoor, in the Uills, to recover the
14 territory, from which he had been ejected since 1816,
15 forms the only other event recorded in this year. He
16 was defeated and made prisoner by Desa Singh,
17 A main cause of the inactivity of the Sikhs arose from
18 the increasing infirmities of Rlnjeet Singh : His
19 indispositions and ailings increased upon him so much,
20 towards the end of the year, that he applied to the British
21 Government for a medical officer, and Dr. Andrew
22 Murray was sent over from Loodeeaua to attend his
23 Highness.
24 It was in the early part of 1827, that the reformer
25 Seyud Ahmed, raised the green standard ofMohummud
26 in the Mountains inhabited by the Yousuf-Zyes, and com-
27 menced a religious war against the Sikhs. This indivi-
28 dual was originally a petty officer of horse in the service of
29 Ameer Khan. Upon the breaking up of the military
30 establishment of that Chief in 1818-19, Seyud Ahmed
31 took a fanatic turn ; and fancying he had received special
32 revelations, went to Dehlee, and associated himself
33 with some Mooluvees of sanctity of that city. One of
34 T