{"book":"adl1197","page":114,"text":"- 101 -\nTHE TRIPARTITE TREATY: The English,\nThe Sikhs & Shuja.\n\nARTICLE TWENTY SEVENTH\n\nIt is possible that the readers may have heard of this\nTreaty, which was signed between the English, the Sikhs and\nShuja. There would hardly be a Treaty more ridiculous and\nlaughable than this treaty. Quite apart from the fact that a king\nwho had no throne and was a refugee; had no right whatever to\ncontract a treaty; the terms of the reaty make it quite apparent\nthat the degree of greed had made Shuja an object of play in\nthe hands of the Sikhs, and to what extent the Sikhs themse-\nlves had become the tools of the English chicanry. The text\nof that document due to its absolutely laughable texture introduce to\nus Ranjit Singh and Macnaughton. Ranjit wanted to get a\ndocuments from the king-without a throne for the acquiring of\nsome land; and the English desired that the amalgamated forces\nof the Sikhs and those of Shuja may be thrown upan a people,\nwho according to the English, were threatening the western def-\nences of India. That all this should be done for the benefit\nof a policy of imperial expension is quite obvious. The text\nof this treaty has been copied from a handwritten manuscritpt\nwhich contains the facts about the reign of Shashuja; and the\nstyle of writig is very good.\n\nShah Shuja, the refugee king, and hiding for his life as a\nprisoner of the Sikhs, who saw much cruel treatment at hands of\nRanjit Singh; and lived at Ludhiana, in his greed to acquaire the\nthrone and land over wihch he once ruled ignominiously was\nalwsys willing to become the tool of the Sikhs and the English.\n\nThe treaty which was contracted between Shahshuja, the\nSikhs and the English is one of those treaties which are obsol-\nutely illegal without truth and without a principle, which expresses\ngreed on the part of Shahshuja, on the oart of the Sikhs an\nurge to acquire territory and on the part of the English it port-\nrayed the hidden intentions of interference and of placing conflict","chars":1983,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl1197/00114.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":205,"title":"Men and events through 18th and 19th century Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl1197/114","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl1197/canvas/114","source":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/books/adl1197/","source_pdf":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/pdf/adl1197_download.pdf","rights":{"image":{"statement":"Public domain. NYU states: \"All works presented on this website are, unless otherwise indicated, in the public domain. The images available on this website may be freely reproduced, distributed and transmitted by anyone for any purpose, commercial or non-commercial.\"","uri":"http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/","holder":"New York University Libraries","source":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/about.html","delivery":"Images are served from a copy mirrored by this project, not from NYU's servers, under the reproduction terms above.","endorsement":"This is an independent project. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or reviewed by New York University."},"text":{"statement":"Machine-generated transcription, dedicated to the public domain under CC0 1.0. No warranty of accuracy: see the provenance block on every page.","uri":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/","holder":"Steps Ventures"}},"provenance":{"text_produced_by":"gemini-3.1-pro-preview","thinking_level":"low","read_completed":"2026-08-09","per_page_confidence":null,"per_page_confidence_note":"Not recorded during the corpus run. No calibrated per-page score exists, and none is estimated here.","human_reviewed":false,"accuracy_context":"Roughly two thirds of characters agree with a modern printed edition of the same text. Much of the disagreement is editorial, not misreading. Treat the transcription as a finding aid and read the page image before quoting.","primary_source":"The page image. The text is an index into it."}}