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. 1846 edition. Excerpt: ... 15 CHAPTER III. HISTORY OF THE PUNJATJB FROM THE DEATH OF RUNJEET SINGH TO THE DEATH OF NOO NEHAL SINGH. From the death of the Maharajah Runjeet Singh may be dated the commencement of the scenes of anarchy and confusion which to this moment have existed in the Punjaub. For some months previous to his ...
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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. 1846 edition. Excerpt: ... 15 CHAPTER III. HISTORY OF THE PUNJATJB FROM THE DEATH OF RUNJEET SINGH TO THE DEATH OF NOO NEHAL SINGH. From the death of the Maharajah Runjeet Singh may be dated the commencement of the scenes of anarchy and confusion which to this moment have existed in the Punjaub. For some months previous to his demise, from his extreme debility and loss of speech from paralysis, public business had been almost entirely neglected, the revenue misapplied, and order or method nearly annihilated. A few days previous to the event, the 28th of June, 1839, the Maharajah, conscious of his approaching end, ordered the whole of his superior officers, European and native, to be assembled in his presence, and caused them to take the oath of allegiance to the heir apparent, his son, the Koonwar Kurruck Singh; the Prince. consequences of which were, that, contrary to general expectation, he succeeded to the throne of his father without the slightest tumult or opposition. Runjeet Singh was surrounded in his last moments by his favourite minister, the Rajah Dhyan Singh, the chief officers of his household, and the principal ecclesiastics of the kingdom, upon which latter he bestowed the most extravagant donations. Amongst other bequests, he directed that the far-famed Koh-iNoor diamond, valued at a million sterling, which he had so disreputably obtained possession of from Shah Soojah, should be given to the high priests of the celebrated temple of Juggernauth, a place of great sanctity, situated in the south of Bengal, whither religious fanatics, at a certain season annually, are in the habit of making a pilgrimage from the remotest parts of India; but the intention of this latter bequest was not fulfilled, and from recent accounts the Koh-i-Noor is still in the...
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