User:TrangaBellam/Sarkar on Saraighat

An analysis of the footnotes in Section IV:


 * 1) Irrelevant
 * 2) Reaction of Aurangzeb to Ram Singh's first advance sourced from a Mughal firman. Precise maneuvers are sourced from two Buranjis, one of which Sarkar rejects as "evidently wrong" (?)
 * 3) Multiple Buranjis for various aspects of the next faceoff.
 * 4) Multiple Buranjis for ditto.
 * 5) Multiple Buranjis for ditto.
 * 6) Multiple Buranjis for detailing a series of diplomatic missions; sources are noted to contradict each other on "certain details"
 * 7) Multiple Buranjis for a two-page-long probable account of Ram Singh's renewed faceoff; Sarkar diverges from Bhyan et al who used the same buranjis to reconstruct different sequences.
 * 8) Multiple Buranjis for reconstruction of another front.
 * 9) Multiple Buranjis for ditto.
 * 10) A Mughal firman that records Aurangzeb being not very happy at Ram Singh's progress but yet supportive
 * 11) *The date contradicts Buranjis.
 * 12) Multiple Buranjis for reconstruction of a fresh Ahom offensive.
 * 13) Multiple Buranjis for ditto.
 * 14) Multiple Buranjis for ditto.
 * 15) Multiple Buranjis for reconstruction of an ego-driven faceoff between Ram Singh and Ahom at Alaboi.
 * 16) *I note that this account has Singh sending his forces under one woman, so that Ahom cannot insult him even in a defeat; nonsense.
 * 17) Multiple Buranjis for ditto.
 * 18) Multiple Buranjis for ditto.
 * 19) A Mughal firman has Aurangzeb increasing the stature of Singh for undescribed gains.
 * 20) *Sarkar notes that the source might or might not have a connection with the Alaboi face-off.
 * 21) Multiple Buranjis for detailing renewed negotiations between Singh and Ahoms.
 * 22) Multiple Buranjis for ditto.
 * 23) Multiple Buranjis for ditto.
 * 24) Multiple Buranjis for ditto.
 * 25) Multiple Buranjis for ditto.
 * 26) *I note that the account gets ridiculously biased in favor of the Ahoms with every paragraph. Apparently, Singh forgot to send the envoy while in a tense mood and dispatched his message orally via the Bargohain. The Ahom Swargadeo took it as an insult and the negotiations collapsed!
 * 27) A Mughal firman denies reinforcement, trims Singh's manpower, and asks him to stick to his post, waiting for future orders from Shaista Khan.
 * 28) Multiple Buranjis.
 * 29) *Apparently, Singh's mother and son asked him to not disturb a country that revered Brahmins and worshipped cows! Further, his son was made to wrestle with tigers; a factoid which goes unmentioned in Rajasthani chronicles.
 * 30) *I recall Pudshah Buranji's description of Ram Singh - Teg Bahadur episode.
 * 31) Multiple Buranjis for the initial maneuvers of Singh, in what would be the final face-off.
 * 32) *Saraighat begins.
 * 33) Multiple Buranjis for a reconstruction and a Mughal firman, demoting Singh.
 * 34) *Saraighat ends in a defeat.
 * 35) Multiple Buranjis for ditto.
 * 36) *Lachit dies.
 * 37) Multiple Buranjis as Sarkar probes into the real reasons behind Ram Singh's loss.
 * 38) Multiple Buranjis for ditto.
 * 39) Multiple Buranjis for ditto.
 * 40) Multiple Buranjis for ditto.
 * 41) Multiple Buranjis for ditto.
 * 42) Multiple Buranjis for ditto.
 * 43) Multiple Buranjis for ditto.
 * 44) Multiple Buranjis for ditto.
 * 45) Multiple Buranjis for ditto.
 * 46) Multiple Buranjis for ditto.
 * 47) Multiple Buranjis for ditto.
 * 48) Multiple Buranjis for ditto.