Flashman and the Mountain of Light Flashman cannot tell the truth to the Queen without offending her, he reminisces about the First Sikh War, 1845 and 1846, and how he acquired Koh-i-Noor (The Mountain of Light). At the end of events in "Flashman's Lady", Flashman is sent to India when the English are anticipating conflict with the Sikh Army, the Khalsa. He is dispatched by Major George Broadfoot to the Punjab, masquerading as a solicitor attempting to settle the Soochet legacy. Flashman becomes entangled in the intrigues of the Punjabi court before being forced to flee at the outbreak of war, then becomes involved in plans
The People of India been produced at the time of Singh's death. The volumes were produced as two collections, with the first eleven comprising the National series and the remainder being known as the State series. Laura Jenkins has noted that the project has been undertaken The books use colonial ethnographies extensively and note, for example, that The People of India The People of India is a title that has been used for at least three books, all of which focussed primarily on ethnography. John Forbes Watson and John William Kaye compiled an eight-volume study entitled "The People of India" between 1868 and 1875.