Part of the
Ballabhgarh sub-district has been included in the new Chief
Commissioner's Province of Delhi, and part in the Gurgaon District.
3. Few observers will accept this proposition without considerable
reservation.
4. Patiala is the principal of the Cis-Satlaj Sikh Protected States.
Nabha belongs to the same group. Both states are very loyal, and
supply Imperial Service troops. For a sketch of their history see
chapters 2 and 9 of Sir Lepel Griffin's _Ranjit Singh_.
5. The Sikh is a military nation formed out of the Jats (who were
without a place among the castes of the Hindoos),[a] by that strong
bond of union, the love of conquest and plunder. Their religions and
civil codes are the Granths, books written by their reputed prophets,
the last of whom was Guru Govind,[b] in whose name Ranjit Singh
stamps his gold coins with this legend: 'The sword, the _pot_,
victory, and conquest were quickly found in the grace of Guru Govind
Singh,'[c] This prophet died insane in the end of the seventeenth
century. He was the son of a priest Teg Bahadur, who was made a
martyr of by the bigoted Muhammadans of Patna in 1675.
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