ABSTRACT
In the introduction to his History of the Punjab published in1891, Syad Muhammad Latif contrasted the ‘corruption,degradation and treachery’ that ‘stalked openly through the land’ prior to the British conquest with the peace and tranquillity which followed in its wake. Under the ‘fostering care of the English’, he gloated, ‘the same bands of fanatics, marauders and highway robbers who were once a terror to the people’ had been ‘turned into peaceful cultivators and useful citizens’.
