ÿþ<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>BENGAL SECRET AND POLITICAL CONSULTATIONS (1800-1834)</TITLE> <style type="text/css"> .BODY { background-color: #EAF1F7; background-image: url('images/gtbh.jpg'); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-attachment: fixed; background-position: center; color: #0066CC;} .C1{text-align: justify;color: #0066CC;FONT-size: SMALL;FONT-family: Tahoma;} .BIB{text-align: center;color: #000099;FONT-size: SMALL;FONT-family: Tahoma;} .CONT{text-align: right;color: #FF0000;FONT-size: SMALL;FONT-family: Tahoma;} </style><META NAME="keywords" CONTENT="BENGAL,SECRET,AND,POLITICAL,CONSULTATIONS,Person,Person"> <META http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></HEAD> <BODY class="BODY" oncontextmenu="return false" ondragstart="return false" onselectstart="return false"> <FONT ALIGN="JUSTIFY" FACE="Tahoma"> <p class="C1">&#65279BENGAL SECRET AND POLITICAL CONSULTATIONS (1800-1834), a manuscript series of Indian records at the India Office Library, London. This series contains, in full, correspondence and despatches on the early British relations with the Sikhs. Among the more important documents are despatches of the Resident at Delhi concerning the cis-Sutlej region and Lord Lake's correspondence with the M&#257lv&#257 Sikh chiefs (1804); correspondence relating to Holkar's intrusion into the Punjab, cis-Sutlej Sikhs, and general principles of British policy in the trans-Yamun&#257 region (1805); correspondence concerning Holkar and Ra&#7751j&#299t Si&#7749gh and the Anglo-Sikh treaty of 1806; correspondence relating to Ra&#7751j&#299t Si&#7749gh's M&#257lv&#257 expeditions; cis-Sutlej Sikh mission to Delhi; Ra&#7751j&#299t Si&#7749gh-Minto correspondence; Metcalfe's despatches from Lahore; Treaty of Amritsar (1809); and despatches of Edmonstone, Ochterlony and Seton (1807-09). The correspondence on Sikh affairs after 1809 fades out in this series, but opens up again in 1831 and contains all relevant correspondence and despatches regarding the Anglo-Sikh relations till 1834 when this series was discontinued to be replaced by another named India Secret Proceedings.</p> </ol><p class="CONT">B. J. Hasrat<br></p><BR> </font> <img src="counter.aspx" width="1px" height="1px" alt=""> </HTML></BODY>