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INDIA - ALEXANDER BURNES & THE SIKH EMPIRE - Travels into Bokhara, The narrative of a Voyage on
INDIA - ALEXANDER BURNES & THE SIKH EMPIRE - Travels into Bokhara, The narrative of a Voyage on the Indus from the Sea to Lahore & an account of a Journey from India to Cabool, Tartary and Persia, by Sir Alexander Burnes, 1839, first edition 3 vols, 325pp 304pp 365pp, frontis of Ranjit Singh. An account of the Lahore Sikh court by Alexander Burnes. and insight into the Sikh kingdom, published whilst Ranjit Singh was alive and well. (3) Sir Alexander Burnes (1805-1841), British traveller, explorer and writer, was born on 16 May 1805. He joined the Bombay infantry in 1821. Upon his arrival in India, he devoted himself to the study of the local languages and was, while still an ensign, selected for the post of regimental interpreter. In 1829, he was transferred to the political department as assistant to the Political Resident in Cutch. In 1831, he was sent on a complimentary mission to Lahore, in charge of English horses, including a team of carthorses, four mares and a stallion, sent by the King of England as presents for Maharaja Ranjit Singh. The real object of Burnes` mission was to survey the River Indus and assess the power and resources of the Amirs of Sindh, then being threatened by the Maharaja. He submitted to his government a geographical and military memoir on Sindh, which formed the basis of Lord William Bentinck`s Indus navigation scheme, a political device cloaked under commercial garb which ultimately barred the advance of Sikh power towards Shikarpur and Sindh. Burnes records in his writings, observations on the Sikh State. He describes Maharaja Ranjit Singh`s habits and government; his passion for horses, his troops and horse artillery, his dancing girls and the Koh-i-Noor diamond. In January 1832, Burnes visited Lahore again to solicit from the Maharaja facilities of travel through the Punjab to Afghanistan, Central Asia and Baikh and Bokhara. Of the Maharaja he wrote: "I never quitted, the presence of a native of Asia with such impressions as I left this man; without education and without a guide, he conducts the affairs of his kingdom with surprising energy and vigour, and yet wields his power with a moderation quite unprecedented in an eastern prince."
INDIA - ALEXANDER BURNES & THE SIKH EMPIRE - Travels into Bokhara, The narrative of a Voyage on the Indus from the Sea to Lahore & an account of a Journey from India to Cabool, Tartary and Persia, by Sir Alexander Burnes, 1839, first edition 3 vols, 325pp 304pp 365pp, frontis of Ranjit Singh. An account of the Lahore Sikh court by Alexander Burnes. and insight into the Sikh kingdom, published whilst Ranjit Singh was alive and well. (3) Sir Alexander Burnes (1805-1841), British traveller, explorer and writer, was born on 16 May 1805. He joined the Bombay infantry in 1821. Upon his arrival in India, he devoted himself to the study of the local languages and was, while still an ensign, selected for the post of regimental interpreter. In 1829, he was transferred to the political department as assistant to the Political Resident in Cutch. In 1831, he was sent on a complimentary mission to Lahore, in charge of English horses, including a team of carthorses, four mares and a stallion, sent by the King of England as presents for Maharaja Ranjit Singh. The real object of Burnes` mission was to survey the River Indus and assess the power and resources of the Amirs of Sindh, then being threatened by the Maharaja. He submitted to his government a geographical and military memoir on Sindh, which formed the basis of Lord William Bentinck`s Indus navigation scheme, a political device cloaked under commercial garb which ultimately barred the advance of Sikh power towards Shikarpur and Sindh. Burnes records in his writings, observations on the Sikh State. He describes Maharaja Ranjit Singh`s habits and government; his passion for horses, his troops and horse artillery, his dancing girls and the Koh-i-Noor diamond. In January 1832, Burnes visited Lahore again to solicit from the Maharaja facilities of travel through the Punjab to Afghanistan, Central Asia and Baikh and Bokhara. Of the Maharaja he wrote: "I never quitted, the presence of a native of Asia with such impressions as I left this man; without education and without a guide, he conducts the affairs of his kingdom with surprising energy and vigour, and yet wields his power with a moderation quite unprecedented in an eastern prince."
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