Chiefs and Families of Note in the Punjab

Description

The interesting sketch with follows, of the modern history of Karnal, is from the pen if the late Sir Donzil Ibbetson, at one time Settlement Officier of that District. Towards the end of the seventeenth century the Delhi Empire was fast falling to decay, and the Sikhs rising to power. In 1709 Bunda, sometime the chosen disciple of Guru Gobind Bairagi, raised his standard in these parts, and collecting an army of Sikhs, occupied the whole of the country west of the Jumna.