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Indus, from the Sea to Lahore (Philadelphia: E. L. Carey and A. Hart, 1835),
p. 36.- Edward Law Ellenborough, "Proclamation from the Governor-General to All
the Princes and Chiefs and People of India," The Annual Register, o~ a View
of the History and Politics of the Year I 842, ed. Edmund Burke (LondoA: J. G. F.
and J. Rivington, 1843), pp. 252-256. - William F. P. Napier, The Life and Opinions of General Sir Charles Tames
Napier, vol. 2 (London: John Murray, 1857), p. 275. - In his disavowal of native languages, Napier evoked a previous conqueror,
Lord Clive. Lewis Smith wrote in the introduction to his translation of Qissa
Chahar Dervish, "Clive never knew the languages of India. When asked w.hy
he never learnt it, he replied 'Why, if I had, I should not have conquered India;
the black knaves would have led me astray by their cunning advice; but as I
never understood them, I was never misled by them.' " See Lewis Ferdinand
Smith, The Tale of the Four Durwesh: Translated from the Urdu Tongue of
Meer Ummun Dhailee (Lucknow: Newul Kishore Press, 1895), p. III. - See William F. P. Napier. The Conquest of Scinde (London: T. & W. Boone,
1845), pp. 327-369. - Thomas Postans, Personal Observations on Sindh; the Manners and Cus-
toms of Its Inhabitants; and Its Productive Capabilities: With a Sketch of
Its History, a Narrative of Recent Events, and an Account of the Connec-
tion of the British Government with That Country to the Present Period
(London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans; 1843), p. 334. - For the role of the opium trade in Sind's annexation, see J. Y. Wong, "British
Annexation of Sind in 1843: An Economic Perspective," Modern Asian
Studies vol. 31, no. 2 (May 1997), pp. 225-244. - The political resistance to Sind's annexation was led by the political agents
James Outram and J.B. Eastwick. See William Joseph Eastwick, Speeches of
Captain Eastwick on the Sinde-Question, the India Bill of 1858 (London:
Smith, Elder & Co., 1862), p. r. A reaction to their critique was apparent from
the popularity of,"Peccavi! (I have Scinde/I have sinned)" the apocryphal pun
assigned to Napier (in reality, a London Punch cartoon). It sums up the
popular reaction to Sind's annexation. - See Marianne Postans, "Daughters of King Dahir: A Romance of History,"
The Metropolitan Magazine 38 (London: Saunders and Outley, May to Au-
gust 1843), pp. 225-242. - James McMurdo, "An Account of the Country ofSindh; with Remarks on
the State of Society, the Government, Manners, and Customs of the People,"
f ournal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, vol. 1
(1834), pp. 233-258. - Ibid., p. 251.
- Thomas Postans, Personal Observations on Scinde, pp. 158-160.
- Ibid., p. 149.
- Ibid., p. 151.
- Richard F. Burton, Scinde; or, The Unhappy Valley, vol. 1 (London: Richard
Bentley, 1851), p. 125. - Ibid., pp. 131-r.