ÿþ<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>SR&#298 FATEH SI&#7748GH PRAT&#256P PRABH&#256KAR</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 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">&#65279<i>SR&#298 FATEH SI&#7748GH PRAT&#256P PRABH&#256KAR</i>, an undated manuscript preserved in the Punjab State Archives, Pa&#7789i&#257l&#257, under accession No. M/ 774, is an account of the life and achievements of Sard&#257r Fateh Si&#7749gh &#256hl&#363v&#257l&#299&#257 (1784-1836). The manuscript since published, by Joginder Kaur (1981), comprises 401 folios, size 23x17 cm, each containing 16 lines.The author, R&#257m Sukh R&#257o, a tutor to Fateh Si&#7749gh during the latter's childhood, wrote this chronicle as well as two others, <i>Sr&#299 Jass&#257 Si&#7749gh Binod</i> and <i>Bh&#257g Si&#7749gh Chandrodaya</i>, at the instance of his pupil and patron. The author being an eye witness to events recorded in this manuscript is more authentic here than in the other two works. Fateh Si&#7749gh's army and its weapons and methods of warfare, contemporary politics and diplomacy as also territorial disputes and alliances and relations with the British as well as with the Sikh sovereign of Lahore are elaborately dealt with in <i>Sr&#299 Fateh Si&#7749gh Prat&#257p Prabh&#257kar</i>. The work provides useful information in respect of the central as well as local and revenue administration in Kap&#363rthal&#257 state during the early nineteenth century, social history of the time, the common people, professional classes, customs and ceremonies, economic activity and trade and industry.</p> </ol><p class="CONT">B. S. Nijjar<br></p><BR> </font><img src="counter.aspx" width="1px" height="1px" alt=""></HTML></BODY>