About Sardar Hari Singh Nalwa

“…champion of the Khalsaji”
Lepel Griffin in The Panjab Chiefs, 1865
(Bengal Civil Service, Assistant Commissioner, Lahore)

“…builder of the Sikh Empire”
A.S. Sandhu in General Hari Singh Nalwa 1791-1837, 1935
(Sikh historian)

On being asked about the Sikh Kingdom, Mohan Lal informed Abbas Mirza— the Persian Qajar crown prince and military commander during wars with Russia and the Ottoman Empire:
“…if Sardar Hari Singh were to cross the Indus, his highness would soon be glad to make good his retreat to his original government in Tabriz.”
Mohan Lal Kashmiri in Travels in the Panjab, Afghanistan, and Turkistan, etc., 1846
(In service of the East India Company)

“The noblest and the most gallant of the Sikh generals of his time, the very embodiment of honour, chivalry, and courage…” 
K.M. Panikkar in The Founding of the Kashmir State, 1930
(Historian, Author, Diplomat and Editor Hindustan Times in 1925)