“Sicques, Tigers, or Thieves”: Eyewitness Accounts of the Sikhs (1606–1809)

Table of Contents

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   Book Overview
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   Chapter 1 A Jesuit Account of Gurū Arjan’s Martyrdom, 1606
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   Chapter 2 Wendel’s History of the Jats, Pathāns, and Sikhs, 1768
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   Chapter 3 Du Perron’s Indian Researches, 1788
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   Chapter 4 Execution of Bandā Singh Bahādur in Delhi, 1716
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   Chapter 5 Omīchand, the Plassey Protagonist, 1757
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   Chapter 6 Of the Seikh’s or Sikhan, c. 1760
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   Chapter 7 Warren Hastings’s Memorandum on the Threat of the Sikhs, 1784
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   Chapter 8 The Writings of Colonel Polier on the Sikhs, 1776–1802
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    Chapter 9 Browne’s Treatise on the Sikhs, 1788
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    Chapter 10 Ranjīt Singh’s Correspondence with the British, 1803
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    Chapter 11 A Statesman’s Note from the Afghān Frontier, 1809
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    Chapter 12 “Sicques, Tigers, or Thieves,” George Forster, 1783
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    Chapter 13 “Extraordinary Modern People”: Dominions of the Sikhs, 1794
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    Chapter 14 Massacre of Fakīrs, Hardwicke, 1796
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    Chapter 15 An Artist’s Impressions of the Sikhs, Balt Solvyns, 1796
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    Chapter 16 Francklin’s History of the Reign of Shāh Ālum, 1798
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    Chapter 17 Memoirs of an Irish Mahārājā, 1803
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    Chapter 18 Standoff in Ranjīt Singh’s Punjab, 1806
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    Chapter 19 A Failed Spying Mission to Lahore, 1808
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    Chapter 20 Sikh Troop Movements in Patiālā, 1784
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    Chapter 21 Mahā Singh Sukkarchakīā, 1786
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    Chapter 22 Sikhs Invade Delhi, 1787
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    Chapter 23 The Collapse of Mughal Power in Lahore, 1789
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    Chapter 24 Zemān Shāh and the Sikhs, 1798
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    Chapter 25 Submission to Zemān Shāh, 1799
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    Chapter 26 Sikhs Gather to Oppose Afghān Rule, 1800
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    Chapter 27 Attack on Fakīrs at Haridvār by Sikhs, 1801
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    Chapter 28 An Account of George Thomas, 1802
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    Chapter 29 Ferishtāh’s History of Hindūstān, 1770
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    Chapter 30 Visit to the Takht at Patnā, 1781
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    Chapter 31 Memoirs of a Mughal Nobleman, 1786
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    Chapter 32 A Muslim Account of Sikh History, 1789
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    Chapter 33 Afghān Retreat Signals Sikh Prosperity, 1790
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    Chapter 34 Ferishtāh’s History of the Deccan, 1794
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    Chapter 35 A Modern History of Hindūstān, 1803