1. B. J. Hasrat, Anglo Sikh Relations 1799-1849, Hoshiarpur, 1968, p.2; also see B. J. Hasrat, The Punjab Papers, Hoshiarpur, 1970, pp. 121-40.
2. Dolores Domin, “Some aspects of British land policy in Punjab after its annexation in 1849” in Punjab Past and Present, Apri1, 1974, p.17. The Punjab was the first province of British India in which the non-regulation system was practiced. It aimed at to providing a cheap and administrative machinery “to quicken the economic and social development in order to render it into a paying province.” Besides, it secured for the Governor-General a personal control over the provincial government and was based on a “closely centralized administrative hierarchy”.
3. Foreign Department Secret Consultation, 28 April, 1849, Nos. 18-29.
4. S. S. Thorburn, The Punjab in Peace and War, London, 1904, p.180.
5. Arnold, Edvin, Marquis of Dalhousie Administration of British India, (London, 1865), p.228.
6. Richard Burn, (ed), Cambridge History of India, (Delhi, 1957), pp. 556-57.
7. Resolution in the Home Deptt., February 9, 1858 para 5.
8. Foreign Department Secret Consultation, 28 April, 1849, Nos. 73-75.
9. General Report on the Administration of the Punjab Territories for the year 1854-55 to 1855-56, p.104.
10. I. J. Kerr, The Agri-Horticultural Society of the Punjab, 1851-1871, The Punjab Past and Present, Punjabi University, Patiala, 1976, pp. 252-56.
11. Foreign Department Political Consultation, 14 November, 1856, pp. 230-32. Also see Khushwant Singh; A History of the Sikhs; Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1977, Vol. II, p.91.
12. M. L. Darling, The Punjab Peasant in Prosperity and Debt, Delhi, 1977, pp.151-52.
13. Himadri Banerjee, Agrarian Society of the Punjab, 1849-1901, Manohar, New Delhi, 1982, 9-10.
14. Mahender Singh, Imperialism in Action: Colonial Land Revenue Policy and the South-East Punjab of British India in International Journal of Advanced Research in Management and Social Sciences, Greenfield Advanced Research Publishing House, UK., Dec. 2012, pp. 30-50.
15. Naggal, 96.
16. Karnal Revenue Rates, 1869, 69.
17. Punjab Land Revenue Administration Reports, 1877-78, I.
18. Mahender Singh, Imperialism in Action: Colonial Land Revenue Policy and the South-East Punjab of British India in International Journal of Advanced Research in Management and Social Sciences, Greenfield Advanced Research Publishing House, UK, Dec. 2012, pp. 30-50.
19. Mahender Singh, Agriculture in the South-East Punjab, 1858-1947, M.Phil. Dissertation, 2002, 25.
20. Mridula Mukherjee, Colonializing Agriculture, The Myth of Punjab Exceptionalism, Sage, New Delhi, 2005 Page. 13.
21. Sukhdev Singh Sohal, British Policy and Money-lenders, 124 and for some detail see K. C. Yadav, Haryana Ithas Evam Sanskriti, pp. 315-18.
22. Himadri Banerjee, Agrarian Society of the Punjab, 1849-1901, Manohar, New Delhi, 1982, pp. 20-21.
23. Imran Ali, Punjab under Imperialism, pp. 8, 9, 14.
24. Imran Ali, Punjab under Imperialism, 1885-1947, OUP, New Delhi, 1989, Page.18. Also see The Land Alienation Act 1900, The draft.
25. For an elaboration of this see, Talbot, Punjab and the Raj. JPS: 14:1 10
26. Royal Commission on Agriculture, Minutes of Evidence, I (Evidence by the officers of Government of India). National Archives of India, Here after cited as N.A.I.
27. Khushwant Singh; A History of the Sikhs; Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1977, Vol. II, p.115.
28. M. L. Darling, The Punjab Peasant in Prosperity and Debt, Bombay, 1947, pp. 29-30.