ÿþ<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>WELLESLEY PAPERS</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>WELLESLEY PAPERS</i>. Private correspondence and letters of Lord Wellesley, Governor-General of India (1798-1805), at the British Library and Museum, London, important for the light it throws on British policy towards the cis-Sutlej region and towards the Sikh Darb&#257r. Part of this correspondence relating to the Af<u>gh</u>&#257n threat to British India in the closing decade of the eighteenth century has been published in Martin R. Montogomery's <i>The Despatches, Minutes and Correspondence of the Marquess of Wellesley</i> (London, 1836-37, 5 volumes), and R.P. Pearse's <i>Memoirs</i> (London, 1846, 3 vols.).</p> <p class="C1">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The correspondence dealing with Sh&#257h Zam&#257n's apprehended invasion of India was published in the Blue Book, XV (ii), 1806.</p> <p class="C1">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Some of the important documents in the <i>Wellesley Papers</i> are correspondence with the President, Board of Control, regarding the possibility of a Sikh Af<u>gh</u>&#257n coalition for an invasion of Delhi and Oudh (1798); letters and Home Government despatches to Wellesley pertaining to the possible Sikh Af<u>gh</u>&#257n-French-&#7788&#299p&#363 Mar&#257&#7789h&#257 combination against the British Indian Government and the latter's measures to counteract the apprehended threat (1798-99).</p> </font> <p class="BIB"> BIBLIOGRAPHY<p class="C1"><ol class="C1">Hasrat, B.J., <i>The Punjab Papers</i>. Hoshiarpur, 1970<BR> </ol><p class="CONT">B. J. Hasrat<br></p><BR> </font> <img src="counter.aspx" width="1px" height="1px" alt=""> </HTML></BODY>