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

156 A CONQUEST OF PASTS India to cite Chachnama was Muhammad Qasim Astrabadi (Firishta)'s Gulsham-i Ibrahimi/Tar'ikh, written be ...

A CONQUEST OF PASTS 157 Arabia, to histories of campaigns from Persia. Firishta advances a claim of the prehistory of India and ...

158 A CONQUEST OF PASTS between the Hindu subjects and the Muslim rulers was put starkly by Dow: Firishta^1 s history provides^1 ...

A CONQUEST OF PASTS 159 A History of the Conquest of 'Sind In 1843, the East India Company conquered Sind. The decisive battle w ...

160 A CONQUEST OF PASTS the Marathas, and Ranjit Singh in Lahore. The Talpurs, wary of for- eign troops on their land, signed th ...

A CONQUEST OF PASTS 161 step could have easily made the Talpur a target. Although their pre- vious alliances with the emir in Ka ...

A CONQUEST OF PASTS Napier, who did not know a speck of Persian or Sindhi or Hindu- stani, continuously cast aspersions on the t ...

A CONQUEST OF PASTS foreign Muslims. This knowledge-making imperial project relied on the discovery and utilization of Chachnama ...

A CONQUEST OF PASTS the province raised himself to independence. [ ... ] The original Hindu tribes who were lords of the soil ar ...

A CONQUEST OF PASTS 165 (r82r-r890J. In 1842, a very young Burton was assigned to Sind as a regi- mental interpreter, ending up ...

r66 A CONQUEST OF PASTS being pointed out to him, he drew his sabre to strike it, when one of the priests cried, 'it is an idol ...

A CONQUEST OF PASTS to paint the current Talpurs as usurpers, with "their stupid policy to injure agriculture, to check commerce ...

168 A CONQUEST OF PASTS in the midst of the Arabian cavalry."^41 Of the fall of Brahmanabad, El- phinstone narrated the "masculi ...

A CONQUEST OF PASTS "light" the histories of Muslims and provide a much needed distance from the native informant but also to gi ...

I70 A CONQUEST OF PASTS question that was quoted almost verbatim by Cousens forty years later: "It is impossible for the travele ...

A CONQUEST OF PASTS I7l ventures" of Mohammad Qasim as "one of the romances of history."^54 Like Lane-Poole's book, Smith's The ...

172 A CONQUEST OF PASTS Shibli Naumani (1857-1914), Jadunath Sarkar (1870-1958), Sulaiman Nadvi (1884-1953), S. M. Ikram (1908-1 ...

A CONQUEST OF PASTS I73 Naumani focused on the biography of the Prophet Muhammad and key figures in early Islam. Between 1882 an ...

174 A CONQUEST OF PASTS The Marxist historian Mohammad Habib (1895-1971) opened his 1929 essay "Arab Conquest of Sind" with a br ...

A CONQUEST OF PASTS 175 not seen as a representation of a diverse, intermixed medieval society. Some historians discarded the Ch ...