UID:
almafu_9960118184702883
Umfang:
1 online resource (478 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
0-511-87365-4
Serie:
Cambridge library collection. South Asian History
Inhalt:
Joseph Davey Cunningham (1812-1851) joined the East India Company's army thanks to the patronage of Sir Walter Scott. He became the assistant to Colonel Claud Wade, a political agent on the Sikh frontier, in 1837, and spent eight years in various political roles living among the Sikh in the Punjab. While writing a report in 1844 for the government, he decided to undertake the history of the Sikhs, and received encouragement for the project from his father, Scottish poet and author Allan Cunningham. He spent four years on the book, and while it established his reputation as a historian of India, it also destroyed his career as a colonial official: he fell foul of the Army in India for his revelation of supposedly secret negotiations with Sikh leaders, and allegations of corruption, during the First Anglo-Sikh War of 1845-1846.
Anmerkung:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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English
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 1-108-06456-6
Sprache:
Englisch
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511873652
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