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CONTENTS.


CHAP. PAGE
I. ORIGIN OF THE SIKHS 1
II. NANAK THE REFORMER, FOUNDER OF THE SIKH SECT 13
III. SPREAD OF SIKHISM 27
IV. GURU GOVIND SINGH, FOUNDER OF THE KHALSA, THE SIKH COMMONWEALTH 37
V. STRUGGLES OF THE KHALSA FOR POSSESSION OF THE PUNJAB 55
VI. THE SIKH CONFEDERACIES—EVOLUTION OF THE SIKH SARDARS 70
VII. SARDAR RANJIT SINGH 79
VIII. MAHARAJA RANJIT SINGH 88
IX. DECLINE OF THE SIKH MONARCHY 119
X. THE FIRST SIKH WAR WITH THE BRITISH, 1845–46 135
XI. THE FIRST SIKH WAR—continued 151
XII. THE SECOND SIKH WAR, 1848–49—ANNEXATION, 1849 165
XIII. THE 'GRANTH,' THE SIKH SACRED BOOK—RELIGIOUS OBSERVANCES 183
XIV. THE SIKHS UNDER THE BRITISH CROWN 201