relation of Sikhs with british
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Sikhs served in the British Indian Army throughout the British Raj. Sikh units fought at the Battle of Saragarhi; in the First World War
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ANGLOSIKH RELATIONS need to be traced to the transformation of the British East India Company, a commercial organization, into a political power in India . Victory at Plassey (23 June 1757) brought Bengal under the de facto control of the British, and that at Buxar (22 October 1764) made Oudh a British protectorate. By August 1765, the grant of the diwani rights to the Company by the Mughal Emperor Shah `Alam made them the virtual rulers of Bengal, Bihar and Orissa. Robert Clive (1725-74), the victor of Plassey and governor of Bengal during 1765-67, watched with interest the repeated invasions of India by Ahmad Shah Durrani and rejoiced at his final repulse at the hands of the Sikhs in 1766-67.
Expressing his happiness over Ahmad Shah`s failure to advance towards the Indian heartland, he wrote to Nawab Wazir of Oudh on 19 February 1767, "... extremely glad to know that the Shah`s progress has been impeded by the Sikhs... As long as he does not defeat the Sikhs or come to terms with them, he cannot penetrate into India.And neither of these events seems probable since the Sikhs have adopted such effective tactics, and since they hate the Shah on account of his destruction of the Chak [Guru Chakk, i.e. Amritsar]." At the same time, in another despatch to Shah Wall Khan, Ahmad Shah`s prime minister, Clive offered congratulations on the Shah`s victory over the Sikhs for whom he uses such epithets as "perfidious" and "tyrannous." Since the fall of Sirhind to them in January 1764, the Sikhs had extended their area of operations to GangaYamuna Doab and Ruhilkhand bordering on the territories of the Nawab of Oudh.