{"book":"adl1197","page":116,"text":"— 103 —\ncal shapes; and Macnauton, therefore, was appointed with a delega-\ntion to see Ranjit Singh at Adaninagar ( 31 st. May 1838. A. D. )\nDuring this meeting, Macnauton said that he had heard that a treaty\nhad been signed between Ranjit Singh and Shahshuja; and asked\nwhether it would not be to the benefit to the whole scheme, if a\nthird party-the English-could not join the confederation. Ranjit Singh,\nreplied that it was tantamount to adding sugar to the milk; thus sugar\nand milk were added together; but as a result, neither the milk of\nShahshuja was sweetended, nor the Sikhs benefitted by the product\nthereof; but the land of Afghanistan was drenched with blood, and\nthe hatred of the people against Shahshuja was increased very con-\nsiderably; and then Shahshuja met his fatal end; and the English had\nto sustain moral and material losses. After the death of Ranjit Singh,\nthe English pushed their influence on the western sides of the Indus\nriver. In any case prior to the time when the Tripartite Treaty\ncould be hammered into shape; both Sikhs and the English made a\nlong discussion regarding the size and the strength of the expedi-\ntionary force. The English wanted that in the actual progress of\naggression to push the Sikhs to face the dangers of battle, and they\nthemselves only give money as their share of the bargain; but the\nSikhs, who had seen the warlike skill of the Afghans; asked the English\nto give a fighting force. Atlast on the fateful day of 26th of June\n1838. A. D. (23rd of Rabee-us-Sani 1253. A. H.) the articles of\nalliance on the part of the Sikhs and the English was signed, and\nit devolved upon Shaashuja, the refugee and abandone former ruler,\nwho had no right to append his signature to the document. Shah-\nshuja Saduzi, for his personal aggrandisement signed this shamful\ntreaty. Its text is contained in 18 clauses, which has been taken\nfrom a handwritten manuscript giving details of the time and affairs\nof Shahshuja's reign.\n\nIn as much as between the governments of high placed Khalsa\nJai, and the Government of the Lord of the earth Shahshuja ul Mulk\na treaty has been evolved four times; and for some reasons had\nbeen postponed: now as per Mr. The Honourable William G. Manc-\nnanton, the fully accredited agent of His Honour the Governor Gneral\nLord Ackland, as a mark of friendship had also been attested; the","chars":2361,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl1197/00116.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":205,"title":"Men and events through 18th and 19th century Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl1197/116","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl1197/canvas/116","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."}}