A Book of Conquest The Chachnama and Muslim Origins in South Asia

u6 A DEMON WITH RUBY EYES Purported graves of Arab soldiers who came to Sind with Muhammad bin Qasim. (Photo courtesy of Ahsan S ...

A DEMON WITH RUBY EYES II7 Chachnama largely became a source for issues concerning conversion or legal treatment of non-Muslims. ...

II8 A DEMON WITH RUBY EYES does focus heavily on is making subjects of non-Muslim populations who remain non-Muslim. Notably in ...

A DEMON WITH RUBY EYES II9 imposes a tax (mal) on the community; finally, when Chach takes Brahmanabad, he grants amnesty to the ...

!20 A DEMON WITH RUBY EYES trumpet." Again, Qasim sanctions their cultural practice and orders them to continue their livelihood ...

A DEMON WITH RUBY EYES I2I The well of Baba Fa'rid. (Photo © Manan Ahmed Asif.) Uch. Both the mosque and the well are pilgrimage ...

I22 A DEMON WITH RUBY EYES There came a famous man from Arabia. He was seventeen years of age at that time. He defeated Raja Dah ...

A DEMON WITH RUBY EYES 123 concerns Baba Farid moving from Uch to Pakpattan (Ajodhan) and set- tling there: It is narrated that ...

124 A DEMON WITH RUBY EYES I argue that read carefully, the encounter details a process of trans- lation between two sacral regi ...

A DEMON WITH RUBY EYES 125 structures in Chachnama is a social hierarchy where the Jats appear to be subjugated. This subjugatio ...

126 A DEMON WITH RUBY EYES The Jats are thus cast as a nomadic population that must be either eradicated or policed under both C ...

A DEMON WITH RUBY EYES 127 treatment under new regimes is based on context and is enacted through law and taxation. The first en ...

5. The Half Smile THE SACRAL TERRAIN OF ucH is dotted with shrines to prominent daughters and wives of Sufis. The shrines are de ...

THE HALF SMILE 129 Tomb of Bibi Jawindi. (Photo © Manan Ahmed Asif.) The material history and practices surrounding Bibi Jawindi ...

130 THE HALF SMILE framework, the narrative is driven by the logic of expansion, and the story moves forward as the conquest mov ...

THE HALF SMILE I3I cant ones.^3 To enact such a reading is not to simply highlight women's roles. Rather it is to make a broader ...

132 THE HALF SMILE a kind and just ruler, is old and incapable of fathering sons, and so Sohnan Devi sends a message to Chach: " ...

THE HALF SMILE 133 come to her and tells him how to become the king of Aror: "My intel- lect argues that if you act with courage ...

134 THE HALF SMILE boundaries of his ethics as well as the social decorum of the court. In Chachnama, Sohnan Devi epitomizes a p ...

THE HALF SMILE 135 vides a range of women who hold political power ( "he would not be able to hide from me"). The people are con ...