meaning of finery

When tractors were first developed, they used enormous steam engines that were notoriously unreliable and hard to maintain. These were phased out around the turn with the twentieth century and substituted for internal combustion engines which were smaller though powerful and ran on a number of fuels including kerosene, ethanol and gasoline. By the 1960s several of these engines were phased out and only more effective internal combustion engines that ran on diesel and after this, biodiesel. With this becuase they authorized the Sikh Army to cross the Sutlej in a very headlong confrontation using the English. Ranjit had signed a treaty with the British that forbade him to cross the Sutlej River, but this became broken. The English were however preparing for the conflict and they had spies inside Lahore Durbar, with perhaps the Prime Minister, the grandfather with the present Kashmir ruler( Now deposed) Karan Singh in league with these and plotting the defeat of the Sikh Army. This service was in return for him to be made the Maharajah of Jammu and Kashmir.