BOARD OF ADMINISTRATION, a set of triumvirs appointed by Lord Dalhousie, the British governor general to manage affairs in the Punjab after its annexation on 29 March 1849 to the dominions of the East India Company. The Board consisted of three members. Henry Lawrence, the British resident at Lahore, was named president and entrusted with matters connected with defence and relations with the sardars while his brother, John Lawrence, was put in charge of land settlement. Charles Grenville Mansel, a covenanted civilian, was entrusted with the administration of justice.
BROUGHTON PAPERS are official and private papers of Sir John Cam Hobhouse (Lord Broughton) in numerous bound volumes in the British Library. Lord Broughton, British administrator, who served as President of the Board of Control of the East India Company from 1835-41 and again from 1846-52, was responsible for the Home Government`s major policy decisions on the Punjab and the Sikhs.
DAKNO, RANI, who came of a Rajput family of Kangra district, was married to Maharaja Sher Singh in 1842. Reputed to be a most beautiful woman of her time, she was tall and slender, graceful and very fair, with a peculiarly gentle and winning expression of countenance. In the words of Lady Login, Sir John Login and Duleep Singh, "She might have passed for a living representation of the traditional conception of the Madonna, so often to be seen depicted by the old Italian masters." In 1843, she gave birth to a son who was named Sahdev Singh.
Discover Sir John Hobhouse's role in shaping British policy towards the Sikhs and Punjab during his tenure in Parliament and beyond.
Explore the thrilling journey of John Holmes, a Eurasian soldier in Maharaja Ranjit Singh's army, and uncover his dual role as a British spy in the 1800s.
Discover Khalsa Namah by Bakht Mall, a rare 1810-14 Persian manuscript on Sikh history from Guru Nanak to the 19th century, stored in major libraries.
Explore John Lawrence's role as Governor General of India, shaping British rule in Punjab with rigorous policies and administrative changes from 1846-1879.
Uncover the legacy of John Ramsay, a Eurasian musician and drum major under Maharaja Ranjit Singh, as recorded in European Adventurers of Northern India.
ALEXANDER ALIAS MUHAMMAD SADIQ, a European of unknown nationality, who drifted to Lahore in 1841 from Kabul, where he had served in Shah Shuja\'s army, and had adopted the Muslim faith. He joined the Khalsa army as a battalion commander serving under John Holmes.
