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EDITOR'S NOTE The author's original spelling of Indian names is modern reader. I have therefore adopted the modern accepted spelling, and for the arduous work of transliteration I am indebted to L. Tej Ram, M.A., Professor of Mathearchaic and almost intolerable to the matics- at the Randhir College, Kapurthala. The author's text and notes have remained unalwhere necessary I have added additional notes, which will be found in brackets. tered, but I By permission of the Government of the Punjab, am enabled to reproduce some of the results obtained by the recent, examination of the manuscript records of the Sikh days, which have long been lying in the archives of the Civil Secretariat. In this connexion I have been greatly assisted by L. Sita Ram Kohli, M.A., the research student in charge of the work. Apart from this, he has been of great help in preparing the entire volume and, in particular, in the drawing up of the Finally, I tender my very grateful Bibliography. thanks to the Hon. Mr. J. P. Thompson, I.C.S., Chief Secretary to the Government of the Punjab, who has kindly looked through the manuscript and to whorh I am indebted for many valuable hints and suggestions. H. L. C. Lahore, November 1915. GARRETT.