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
    • The date contradicts Buranjis.
11. Multiple Buranjis for reconstruction of a fresh Ahom offensive.
12. Multiple Buranjis for ditto.
13. Multiple Buranjis for ditto.
14. Multiple Buranjis for reconstruction of an ego-driven faceoff between Ram Singh and Ahom at Alaboi.
    • I note that this account has Singh sending his forces under one woman, so that Ahom cannot insult him even in a defeat; nonsense.
15. Multiple Buranjis for ditto.
16. Multiple Buranjis for ditto.
17. A Mughal firman has Aurangzeb increasing the stature of Singh for undescribed gains.
    • Sarkar notes that the source might or might not have a connection with the Alaboi face-off.
18. Multiple Buranjis for detailing renewed negotiations between Singh and Ahoms.
19. Multiple Buranjis for ditto.
20. Multiple Buranjis for ditto.
21. Multiple Buranjis for ditto.
22. Multiple Buranjis for ditto.
    • 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!
23. A Mughal firman denies reinforcement, trims Singh's manpower, and asks him to stick to his post, waiting for future orders from Shaista Khan.
24. Multiple Buranjis.
    • 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.
    • I recall Pudshah Buranji's description of Ram Singh - Teg Bahadur episode.
25. Multiple Buranjis for the initial maneuvers of Singh, in what would be the final face-off.
    • Saraighat begins.
26. Multiple Buranjis for a reconstruction and a Mughal firman, demoting Singh.
    • Saraighat ends in a defeat.
27. Multiple Buranjis for ditto.
    • Lachit dies.
28. Multiple Buranjis as Sarkar probes into the real reasons behind Ram Singh's loss.
29. Multiple Buranjis for ditto.
30. Multiple Buranjis for ditto.
31. Multiple Buranjis for ditto.
32. Multiple Buranjis for ditto.
33. Multiple Buranjis for ditto.
34. Multiple Buranjis for ditto.
35. Multiple Buranjis for ditto.
36. Multiple Buranjis for ditto.
37. Multiple Buranjis for ditto.
38. Multiple Buranjis for ditto.
39. Multiple Buranjis for ditto.