ÿþ<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>TRIPARTITE TREATY (June 1838)</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="TRIPARTITE,TREATY"> <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">&#65279TRIPARTITE TREATY (June 1838). As the rumours of Russian infiltration into Persia and Afghanistan spread in the late thirties of the nineteenth century, the Governor-General, Lord Auckland, despatched Captain Alexander Burnes to K&#257bul to make an alliance with Am&#299r Dost Muhammad. The Af<u>gh</u>&#257n ruler made Pesh&#257war the price of his co-operation which the British could not afford without going to war with the Sikhs.</p> <p class="C1">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Auckland had to choose between Dost Muhammad and Ra&#7751j&#299t Si&#7749gh. He chose Ra&#7751j&#299t Si&#7749gh and decided to seek his help in ousting Dost Muhammad and putting Sh&#257h Shuj&#257' on the throne of Afghanistan. In April 1838, Burnes' mission was withdrawn from K&#257bul. In May 1838, Sir William Macnaghten was deputed to Lahore to engage the Mah&#257r&#257j&#257 in a treaty which aimed at the revival of the defunct Sikh ---Af<u>gh</u>&#257n agreement of 1833. After prolonged negotiations, the treaty was signed by Ra&#7751j&#299t Si&#7749gh on 26 June 1838 which is known as the Tripartite Treaty. The Treaty confirmed control of the Sikh kingdom, in perpetuity, over the former Af<u>gh</u>&#257n possessions of Kashm&#299r, Attock, Haz&#257r&#257, Pesh&#257war and its dependencies up to the <u>Kh</u>aibar, Bann&#363, &#7788onk, K&#257l&#257b&#257<u>gh</u> and other dependent Waz&#299r&#299 districts, the &#7692er&#257j&#257t and the rich and fertile province of Mult&#257n. For relinquishing its claims to Shik&#257rpur, the Lahore Government, under British mediation, was to receive a sum of 15,00,000 rupees out of the levy on the Am&#299rs of Sindh. Sh&#257h Shuj&#257' renounced all his claims in regard to Sindh and agreed to abide by the settlement made by the British and the Sikh ruler in Sindh. Sh&#257h Shuj&#257' surrendered to joint Anglo-Sikh authority control of the foreign relations of Afghanistan. The Lahore Government bound itself, for an annual payment of 2,00,000 rupees by the Sh&#257h, to maintain a Muhammadan auxiliary force of not fewer than 5,000 men for the Sh&#257h's aid. Finally, Hir&#257t was to be independent, and, at K&#257bul, Sh&#257h Shuj&#257' was required to have a British envoy. It has been said that the real purpose of the British in working out the Tripartite treaty was to thwart Sikh designs on Sindh.</p> </font> <p class="BIB"> BIBLIOGRAPHY<p class="C1"><ol class="C1"><li class="C1"> Cunningham, Joseph Davey, <i>A History of the Sikhs</i>. London, 1849<BR> <li class="C1"> Hasrat, Bikrama J&#299t, <i>Anglo-Sikh Relations</i>. Hoshiarpur, 1968<BR> <li class="C1"> Ganda Singh, ed., <i>Private Correspondence Relating to the Anglo-Sikh Wars</i>. Amritsar, 1955<BR> </ol><p class="CONT">B. J. Hasrat<br></p><BR> </font><img src="counter.aspx" width="1px" height="1px" alt=""></HTML></BODY>