1 CONTENTS. VU
2 CHAPTER VIII.
3 POPULATION, MANNERS, AND CUSTOMS.
4 Extent of the Population— The Sikhs ; their Costume, Diet— The
5 Kashmirian— Charities, how levied— Customs in respect to
6 Succession to Landed Property — Rights of Primogeniture —
7 The Mahomedan Families — The Punchayats — Settlement of
8 Claims to Lands — Obstruction of Streams — Nuptial Contracts
9 — Widows, how treated — The Suttee — Debtors and Revenue
10 Defaulters 75
11 CHAPTER IX.
12 THE COURT OF THE SIKH SOVEREIGNS. . 93
13 CHAPTER X.
14 THE RELIGION OF THE SIKHS.
15 Nanac Shah, the Founder — His Assertion of Deism— The Con-
16 version of the Sikhs from Hindooism and Mahomedanism —
17 Nanac's Successors — The Guru Govind — The leading Prin-
18 ciples of the Sikh Faith— The Oranfh—The Rules observed
19 by Converts— Faquirs 117
20 APPENDIX.
21 Brief History of the British Connection with Runjeet Singh 129
22 Table of Heights of Mountains in the Punjaub . . .142