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"Sicques, tigers, or thieves": eyewitness accounts of the Sikhs, 1606-1809
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Palgrave Macmillian
Publication Date
2004
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English
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Pt. I. Missionaries
1. Jesuit account of Guru Arjan's Martyrdom, 1606
2. Wendel's history of the Jats, Pathans, and Sikhs, 1768
Wendel's letter recounting a battle between the Jats and the Sikhs, 1770
3. Du Perron's Indian researches, 1788
Pt. II. Company men
4. Execution of Banda Singh Bahadur in Delhi, 1716
5. Omichand, the Plassey protagonist, 1757
6. Of the Seikh's or Sikhan, c. 1760
7. Warren Hastings's memorandum on the threat of the Sikhs, 1784
8. writings of Colonel Polier on the Sikhs, 1776-1802
"A snake with many heads" : Polier's warning to the English, 1776
Polier's Mughal memoirs on the Sikh incursions, 1776
treatise on the history, religion and culture of the Sikhs, 1787
character of the Sikhs, 1802
9. Browne's treatise on the Sikhs, 1788
10. Ranjit Singh's correspondence with the British, 1803
11. statesman's note from the Afghan frontier, 1809
Pt. III. Travelers
12. "Sicques, tigers, or thieves," George Forster, 1783
13. "Extraordinary modern people" : dominions of the Sikhs, 1794
14. Massacre of Fakirs, Hardwicke, 1796
15. artist's impressions of the Sikhs, Balt Solvyns, 1796
Pt. IV. Military men
16. Francklin's history of the reign of Shah Alum, 1798
17. Memoirs of an Irish Maharaja, 1803
18. Standoff in Ranjit Singh's Punjab, 1806
19. failed spying mission to Lahore, 1808
Pt. V. News
20. Sikh troop movements in Patiala, 1784
21. Maha Singh Sukkarchakia, 1786
22. Sikhs invade Delhi, 1787
23. collapse of Mughal power in Lahore, 1789
24. Zeman Shah and the Sikhs, 1798
25. Submission to Zeman Shah, 1799
26. Sikhs Gather to oppose Afghan rule, 1800
27. Attack on fakirs at Haridvar by Sikhs, 1801
28. account of George Thomas, 1802
Pt. VI. Orientalists
29. Ferishtah's history of Hindustan, 1770
30. Visit to the Takht at Patna, 1781
31. Memoirs of a Mughal nobleman, 1786
32. Muslim account of Sikh history, 1789
33. Afghan retreat signals Sikh prosperity, 1790
34. Ferishtah's history of the Deccan, 1794
35. modern history of Hindustan, 1803.
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9781403962010
9781403962027
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