The people of India : a series of photographic illustrations, with descriptive letterpress, of the races and tribes of Hindustan . y, in vain endeavoured to induce them to join him, and they remainedfaitliful to the existing Government. By this conduct they suffered severely, theirvillages, houses, and flirms being mercilessly plundered; and at the settlement ofthe Punjab, in consideration of their loyalty and devotion, the charitable grantsmade to them by successive Sikh rulers were confirmed in perpetuity, with someof then* estates. Their loyalty stood the test of the mutiny of 1857, and the
The people of India : a series of photographic illustrations, with descriptive letterpress, of the races and tribes of Hindustan . y, in vain endeavoured to induce them to join him, and they remainedfaitliful to the existing Government. By this conduct they suffered severely, theirvillages, houses, and flirms being mercilessly plundered; and at the settlement ofthe Punjab, in consideration of their loyalty and devotion, the charitable grantsmade to them by successive Sikh rulers were confirmed in perpetuity, with someof then* estates. Their loyalty stood the test of the mutiny of 1857, and theircontmgents assisted in operations m the field against the rebels. Of the juniorbranches, some were not so steadflist, and joined the Sikh national forces, whichwere defeated at the battle of Goojerat. The Sodliees have been described inVol. IV., No. 219, to which article the reader is referred. The subject of thePhotograph resides at Lahore. He has lost an eye, which is covered by anornament pendant fi*om his turban ; and it is a strange pecuHarity of this person,that he dresses himself ou all occasions in. female ^ A S O D H EE, SIKH. LAHORE. (240) TANAOLEES. (241) ON the extreme north-west fi-ontier of the Punjab, the country is broken intodeep naiTow glens and ravines, caused by the lofty rugged spurs of thehigher ranges of the Himalayas, which descend into the plains of the frontier district is called Hazara, and is peopled by several martial clans ofPathan Mahomedans, who, since the annexation of the Punjab, have becomeBritish subjects. Further north and north-west the same wild country continues,increasing in difficulty as the main range is approached, and lying on both banksof the river Indus, which, for the most part, forms the boundary between theBritish territory and that of the independent mountain tribes as far as Swat andBijour. Beyond these towns the country is almost unkno-WTi to Europeans, andindeed to Mahomedans also, and belongs to the
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