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Because Suri wrote in Persian (the court language of the Sikh Empire) and remained neutral in his reporting—criticizing both Sikh and British excesses—his work is considered far more reliable than the hagiographic accounts that followed.

The is a monumental five-volume chronicle written in Persian that serves as the definitive primary source for the history of the Sikh Empire . Authored by Sohan Lal Suri , the official diarist (Vakil) at the Lahore Darbar, this work provides a meticulous day-to-day record of the reign of Maharaja Ranjit Singh and his successors until the British annexation of Punjab in 1849. umdat-ut-tawarikh pdf