Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883 edition. Excerpt: ... Fob fifteen months after the agreement made, the 16th December 1846, between the British Government and the Labor Darbar, the Panjab remained apparently quiescent under the control and guidance of a British officer. That officer was not always Sir Henry Lawrence. After administering the affairs of the Sikh State for less than a year, that distinguished officer had, to recover his shattered health, accompanied the retiring Governor-General, Lord Hardinge, to England. But during the few months of his tenure of office Sir Henry Lawrence had laid down the principles upon which he proposed to guide and reform the administration of the Panjab, The chief of these was English supervision. With this object he had deputed two of the ablest of the officers placed at his disposal--men already famous, and both of whom have an imperishable record in the Temple of Fame, Herbert Edwardea and John Nicholson--to Bannu, a district in the Derajat, north of Dera Ismail Khan, a portion of the Panjab territory, which, though nominally ceded to it by the Afghans, had neither been completely conquered nor thoroughly occupied. Ultimately it was arranged, Nicholson's services being at the time required elsewhere, that Edwardes should proceed to Bannu alone, and this arrangement was carried out. It was a bold step indeed to send to a country which had never been properly subdued, one month's march from Labor, to control its inhabitants, a solitary Englishman. But the result proved the correctness of the view taken by Sir Henry Lawrence, alike of the selected Englishman and of the feasibility of the task to him entrusted. To other parts of the Panjab, likewise, Sir Henry deputed officers of his selection. His brother, George Lawrence, not the least able and the...
