ÿþ<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>AUCKLAND PAPERS</TITLE> <style type="text/css"> .BODY { background-color: #EAF1F7; background-image: url('images/gtbh.jpg'); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-attachment: fixed; background-position: center; color: #0066CC;} .C1{text-align: justify;color: #0066CC;FONT-size: SMALL;FONT-family: Tahoma;} .BIB{text-align: center;color: #000099;FONT-size: SMALL;FONT-family: Tahoma;} .CONT{text-align: right;color: #FF0000;FONT-size: SMALL;FONT-family: Tahoma;} </style><META NAME="keywords" CONTENT="AUCKLAND,PAPERS"> <META http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></HEAD> <BODY class="BODY" oncontextmenu="return false" ondragstart="return false" onselectstart="return false"> <FONT ALIGN="JUSTIFY" FACE="Tahoma"> <p class="C1">&#65279AUCKLAND PAPERS, comprising private correspondence and letters of Lord Auckland, governor-general of India (1836-42), now available in the British Library and Museum, London, provide interesting sidelights on political affairs in the Punjab (1836-1841), Sindh and Afghanistan, and also furnish useful information on the military power of the Sikhs, and persons and politics at the court of Mah&#257r&#257j&#257 Ra&#7751j&#299t Si&#7749gh. Some of these letters were used by L. J. Trotter in his <i>Earl of Auckland</i> (Oxford, 1893), and quite a few of them were published in the <i>Journal and Correspondence of William Lord Auckland</i> (London, 1861-62).</p> <p class="C1">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Of a total of eight volumes, six deal essentially with events leading to the first Anglo-Af<u>gh</u>&#257n war, the tripartite treaty among Ra&#7751j&#299t Si&#7749gh, Sh&#257h Shuj&#257' and the British Government, and despatches of Wade and other British officers who accompanied a British auxiliary force through the Punjab, under the nominal command of Sh&#257h Shuj&#257's eldest son, Prince Taim&#363r, to Afghanistan (MS. Volumes No. 37689-94). The other two volumes contain Lord Auckland's private correspondence with Sir John Hobhouse, President of the Board of Control, revealing the rising tension between the Sikhs and the English, and tracing the course of events which ended in the disaster in Afghanistan. Detailed information is provided about the Russo-Persian threat to India and the measures taken to counteract it; Sikh designs on Sindh; Sir Henry Fane's visit to Lahore; the Sikh-Af<u>gh</u>&#257n disputes and the British attitude; Ra&#7751j&#299t Si&#7749gh's war and peace aims; French influence at Lahore; Burnes' negotiations at K&#257bul and Ra&#7751j&#299t Si&#7749gh's reactions; danger of Sikh-Af<u>gh</u>&#257n conflict; various schemes for the subversion of Dost Muhammad's power and rehabilitation of Sh&#257h Shuj&#257' with Sikh help; Auckland-Ra&#7751j&#299t Si&#7749gh meeting; Wade's transactions at Pesh&#257war; Clerk's reports from Lahore; death of Ra&#7751j&#299t Si&#7749gh; Wade's recall from Ludhi&#257&#7751&#257; death of Kha&#7771ak Si&#7749gh and Nau Nih&#257l Si&#7749gh; Sher Si&#7749gh's overtures and conditions of British support; and Macnaghten's accusations against the Sikhs.</p> </font> <p class="BIB"> BIBLIOGRAPHY<p class="C1"><ol class="C1">Hasrat, B. J. , ed. and annot, <i>The Punjab Papers</i>. Hoshiarpur, 1970<BR> </ol><p class="CONT">B. J. Hasrat<br></p><BR> </font> <img src="counter.aspx" width="1px" height="1px" alt=""> </HTML></BODY>