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Osborne met Maharaja Ranjit Singh in 1838. He writes: 1. 26th June.—This morning, at sunrise, ordered our elephants, and went out to try and relieve the monotony of our life by a few hours' shooting. Proceeded straight to a rumna, or preserve, of the Maharajah's, which we supposed to abound in wild hog, hares, and black partridges. The Sihks, in contradiction to the religious tenets of most of the other castes in India, are very fond of pork, and Runjeet cultivates grain and sugar- cane round this preserve for the wild hog who frequent it to feed upon. Beef is as much a forbidden foo
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https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.502825 colonel Steinbach wrote a book in 1846 which can be downloaded at above link. He wrote about the sikh diet in the book.