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EDWARDES, SIR HERBERT BENJAMIN
Tags: edwardes, sikh, london, resident, 1848, punjab, 1851, panjab, critical, commissioner, year, british
EDWARDES, SIR HERBERT BENJAMIN (1819-1868), soldier, writer and statesman, son of the Rev. B. Edwardes, was born on 12 November 1819. He joined the Bengal infantry as a cadet in 1841, and served as Urdu, Hindi and Persian interpreter to his...
EKADASI
Tags: guru, ekadasi, days, heart, lunar, nanak, creator, engrossed, allurements, superstition, essence, arjan
EKADASI, from Sanskrit ekadasa; eka(one)+ dasa (ten) meaning eleven, is the eleventh day of the lunar fortnight, in both its dark and light halves. Among Vaisnavite Hindus, ehkadasi also harivasar (lit. Visnu`s day) is a day of fasting. Partaking of...
ELECTRIFICATION OF THE GOLDEN TEMPLE
Tags: singh, electricity, 1897, temple, golden, khalsa, sardar, amritsar, light, faridkot, lahore, maharaja
ELECTRIFICATION OF THE GOLDEN TEMPLE, Whether or not electricity be inducted into the Golden Temple premises was a raging polemic in the closing years of the nineteenth century. There were views pro and con, and the debate was joined by both sides...
ELLENBOROUGH PAPERS
Tags: ellen borough, papers, 30/12, lord, punjab, british, correspondence, london, frontier, policy, military, 1844
ELLEN BOROUGH PAPERS, official and private correspondence and papers of Lord Ellen borough, Governor General of India (1842-44), preserved in the Public Records Office, London. Some of these papers were used by Lord Colchester in his History of the...
ELLENBOROUGH, LORD EDWARD LAW
Tags: lord, ellenborough, sikh, british, 1842, india, large, jalalabad, general, military, president, board
ELLENBOROUGH, LORD EDWARD LAW (1790-1871), Governor General of India (1842-44), son of Edward Law, Baron Ellen borough, Lord Chief Justice of England, was born on 8 September 1790. He was educated at Eton and at St John`s College, Cambridge. He...
EMINABAD
Tags: guru, bhai, town, nanak, singh, eminabad, gurdwara, lalo, sahib, sikh, stonemill, amritsar
EMINABAD (32°2`N, 74°16`E), an ancient town in Gujranwala district of Pakistan, is sacred to Guru Nanak (1469-1539) in whose day it was called Sayyidpur. According to Bhai Bala Janam Sakhi, after leaving Sultanpur and before setting out on his...
ENGAL SECRET AND POLITICAL CONSULTATIONS
Tags: correspondence, despatches, series, ranjit, cissutlej, sikh, singh, sikhs, relations, 1809, delhi, treaty
ENGAL SECRET AND POLITICAL CONSULTATIONS (1800-1834), a manuscript series of Indian records at the India Office Library, London. This series contains, in full, correspondence and despatches on the early British relations with the Sikhs.
ETAWAH
Tags: udasi, guru, singh, visits, amritsar, gurdwara, etawah, sikh, ashram, town, evening, morning
ETAWAH (26° 47`N, 78° 58`E), a district town of Uttar Pradesh, 127 km southeast of Agra, has two Udasi Ashrams commemorating the visits of Guru Nanak and Baba Sri Chand. Sikh chronicles have not recorded these visits, but they do mention that...
EUROPEAN ADVENTURERS OF NORTHERN INDIA,
Tags: ventura, sikh, european, singh, avitabile, punjab, ranjit, allard, adventurers, grey, memoirs, administrator
EUROPEAN ADVENTURERS OF NORTHERN INDIA, 1785 to 1849, by G. Grey, first published in 1929 and reprinted by the Languages Department, Punjab, Patiala, in 1970, contains biographical sketches of over one hundred Europeans who came to or served in the...
EVENTS AT THE COURT OF RANJIT SINGH
Tags: singh, ranjit, multan, lahore, kashmir, newsletters, court, sikh, 1817, maharaja, darbar, justice
EVENTS AT THE COURT OF RANJIT SINGH, 1810-1817, edited by H.L.O. Garrett and G.I.. Ghopra, is a rendition in English of Persian newsletters comprising 193 loose sheets and forming only a small part of a large collection preserved in the Alienation...


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