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W. Irvine —Guru Gobincl Siygh and Bandah. 
[No. 3, 
Guru Gobind Sir/gh and Bandah.—By Wm. Irvine, C. S. (retired). 
The following paper, dealing with an episode in the history of the 
Later Mogul Empire, is an extract from a longer work which has been 
planned to cover the period from 1707, the year of ‘Alamglr Auraijgzlb’s 
death, to 1803, the year in which Lord Lake occupied Dihli. Eor 
the most part this work will be based directly on manuscript authorities 
in the Persian language. The special points in the following passages 
are :—(1) An attempt to get rid of the fable mixed up with the Sikh 
legends, and to work the residue of fact into some sort of historical 
order; (2) to clear the story, as far as possible, from numerous discre¬ 
pancies and obscurities of place and date; (3) the introduction of new 
matter from contemporary Muhammadan sources; (4) new first-hand 
evidence for the date of Gobind Sipgh’s death; and lastly (5) the 
identification of the places referred to in the course of the narrative. 
The references in the foot-notes are to the following works:— 
I. Peinted Books (English). 
1. Browne. —India Tracts, by Major James Browne, 4to., London, 
1788. 
2. Bennett. —Memoir of a Map of Hindoostan, by Major James 
Rennell, 4to., London, 1793. 
3. G. Forster. —A Journey from Bengal to England, by George 
Eorster, 2 Vols., 8vo., London, 1808. 
4. Malcolm. —Sketch of the Sikhs, by Lt.-Col. John Malcolm, 
8vo., London, 1812. 
5. The Siyar-ul-Mutahherin, by Mir Gholam Hussein Khan (trans¬ 
lation), edited by Lt.-Col. J. Briggs (0. T. Fund), 8vo., 
London, 1832. 
6. Me Gregor. —The History of the Sikhs, by Dr. W. L. Me Gregor, 
2 Vols., 8vo., London, 1846. 
7. Cunningham. —History of the Sikhs, by Capt. J. D. Cunning¬ 
ham, 8vo., London, 1853. 
8. Thornton. —Gazetteer of the Territories under the E. I. Co., 
by E. Thornton, 8vo., London, 1862. 
