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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Cunningham, Joseph Davey, 1812-1851. History of the Sikhs. Delhi, S. Chand, 1966 (OCoLC)583934246 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Joseph Davey Cunningham; H L O Garrett |
| OCLC Number: | 4285075 |
| Description: | xlix, 402 p. geneal. tables. 23 cm. |
| Contents: | The country and people -- Old Indian creeds, modern reforms, and the teaching of Nanak, up to A.D. 1539 -- The Sikh gurus or teachers, and the modification of Sikhism under Gobind, A.D. 1539-1716 -- The establishment of Sikh independence, A.D. 1716-64 -- From the independence of the Sikhs to the ascendancy of Ranjit Singh and the alliance with the English, 1765-1808-09 -- From the supremacy of Ranjit Singh to the reduction of Multan, Kashmir, and Peshawar, 1809-1823-4 -- From the acquisition of Multan, Kashmir and Peshawar to the death of Ranjit Singh, 1824-39 -- From the death of Maharaja Ranjit Singh to the death of Wazir Jawahir Singh, 1839-45 -- The war with the English, 1845-6 -- Appendixes -- Appendix I: The Jats and Jats of Upper India -- Appendix II: Proportions of races and faiths: population of India -- Appendix III: The Kshattriyas and Aroras of the Punjab -- Appendix IV: Caste in India -- Appendix V: The philosophical systems of the Indians -- Appendix VI: On the maya of the Indians -- Appendix VII: The metaphysics of Indian reformers -- Appendix VIII: Nanak's philosophical allusions, popular or moral rather than scientific -- Appendix IX: The terms raj and jog, deg and tegh -- Appendix X: Caste among the Sikhs -- Appendix XI: Rites of initiation in Sikhism -- Appendix XII: The exclamation Wah guru and the expression Deg, tegh, fath -- Appendix XIII: The Sikh devotion to steel, and the term "Sachcha padshah" -- Appendix XIV: Distinctive usages of the Sikhs -- Appendix XV: On the use of Arabic and Sanskrit for the purposes of education in India -- Appendix XVI: On the land-tax in India -- Appendix XVII: The Adi Granth, or First Book; or, the Book of Nanak, the First Guru and teacher of the Sikhs -- Appendix XVIII: The Daswin Padshah Ka Granth, or, Book of the Tenth King or Sovereign Pontiff, i.e., Guru Gobind Singh -- Appendix XIX: Some principles of belief and practice... -- Appendix XX: The admonitory letters of Nanak to the fabulous monarch of Karun, and the prescriptive letters of Gobind for the guidance of the Sikhs -- Appendix XXI: A list of Sikh sects, or orders, or denominations -- Appendix XXII: A genealogical table of the Sikh gurus or teachers -- Appendix XXIII: The treaty with Lahore of 1806 -- Appendix XXIV: Sir David Ochterlony's proclamation of 1809 -- Appendix XXV: The treaty with Lahore of 1809 -- Appendix XXVI: Proclamation of protection to Cis-Sutlej states against Lahore, dated 1809 -- Appendix XXVII: Proclamation of protection to Cis-Sutlej against another one, dated 1811 -- Appendix XXVIII: Indus Navigation Treaty of 1832 -- Appendix XXIX: Supplementary Indus Navigation Treaty of 1832 -- Appendix XXX: The Tripartite Treaty with Ranjit Singh and Shah Shuja of 1838 -- Appendix XXXI: Indus and Sutlej Toll Agreement of 1839 -- Appendix XXXII: Indus and Sutlej Toll Agreement of 1840 -- Appendix XXXIII: Declaration of war of 1845 -- Appendix XXXIV: First treaty with Lahore of 1846 -- Appendix XXXV: Supplementary articles to first treaty with Lahore of 1846 -- Appendix XXXVI: Treaty with Gulab Singh of 1846 -- Appendix XXXVII: Second treaty with Lahore of 1846 -- Appendix XXXVIII: Revenues of the Punjab as estimated in 1844 -- Appendix XXXIX: The army of Lahore, as recorded in 1844 -- Appendix XL: The Lahore family -- Appendix XLI: The Jammu family. |
| Responsibility: | Edited by H.L.O. Garrett. |
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