Circumstances leading to the annexation of the Punjab

Abstract

the greatest of all hypocrites to shame when to the person whom he had only four days ago asked "to persevere in your line of making the Sikh Darbar propose the condition or rather their readiness to assent to any conditions imposed as the price of the continuance of our support," he wrote as follows in the same letter: "The moral effect of the Sikh Chiefs entreating the B(ritish) Govt. to become