NEW ANGLO-INDIAN DIPLOMACY

353 the Anglo-Indian governments were much startled by the activity of the French agents at Teheran and other Asiatic courts. It is from this period that we must date the embar- cation of Anglo-Indian diplomacy upon a much wider sphere of action than heretofore. The English min- RANJIT SINGH'S SAMADH AT LAHORE. isters soon discovered Napoleon's plan of an Asiatic campaign, and all his secret negotiations were thor- oughly known to them. For the purpose of counter- acting the French demonstrations and of throwing up barrier after barrier against the threatened expedition from the Black Sea and the Caspian, the Indian Gov- ernor-General, Lord Minto, sent missions to all the rulers of states on and beyond his northwestern border to Ranjit Singh at Lahore, to the Afghan Amir, to