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Preface
A number of Europeans and Indian travelers and officers of the East India Company visited

Punjab during the reign of Maharaja Ranjit Singh. Many of them maintained diaries and

published them as memoirs, travelogues and works of history. Some of these were published

during the life time of the Maharaja. Others continued to publish their works during the

tenures of the successors of the Maharaja till the fall of the kingdom of Lahore. All the

contemporary and near contemporary writers in English are Europeans and they constitute the

first part of this monograph. They claim to be giving the true picture of the Sikhs in

general and of Ranjit Singh in particular. Their intended readership was primarily British

public, who they thought. Ought to know about eh personality of the Maharaja and origin and

growth of his kingdom. The writers belonged to widely different socio-cultural background

and socio-political identities. Their views were influenced by the historical situations in

which they wrote. Their interests ranged from intellectual curiosity to idle fancy or

self-interest in practical, political and even personal terms. The evidence they used and

the purposes for which they wrote were reflected in their works. The travelers had

impressionistic approach and the Maharaja was not the focus of their interest and,

therefore, they do not fall within our scope. There were others who were the servants of the

East India Company. They had been assigned different duties in the Punjab. They had a strong

urge to produce a sketch, a journal or an historical work. Some ot

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