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36. The Conquest of Scinde, p. 37.
    37. See Ronald B. Inden, Imagining India (Bloomington: Indiana University
    Press, 2001), pp. 49-85.


37. Mountstuart Elphinstone, The History of India: The Hindu and Mahometan
    Periods (London: John Murray, 1841), p. ix.


38. Ibid., p. 300.


39. Ibid.


40. Ibid., p. 301.


41. Ibid., p. 309.


42. For a summary of his career and his position in historiography, see Tripta
    Wahi, "Henry Miers Elliot: A Reappraisal," Journal of the Royal Asiatic So-
    ciety of Great Britain and Ireland no. 1 (1990), pp. 64-90.


43. H. M, Elliot, The History of India, as Told by Its Own Historians: The Mu-
    hammadan Period, vol. 1 (London: Triibner and Co., 1867), p. xvi.


44. Ibid., p. xxii.


45. Ibid., p. 136.


46. Ibid., p. 414.


47. Ibid., p. 433.


48. Ibid., p. 482.


49. Ibid., p. 479.


50. Ibid.


51. For a full explication of Smith's text, see Ronald B. Inden, Imagining India.


52. Stanley Lane-Poole, Medieval India under Mohammedan Rule, 712-1764
    (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1903), p. iii.


53. Ibid., p. 7.


54. Vincent A. Smith, The Oxford Student's History of India (London: Oxford
    at the Clarendon Press, 1908), p. 88.


55. J. N. Sarkar, India through the Ages (Calcutta: M. C. Sarkar & Sons, 1928),
    pp. 68-70.


56. R. C. Majumdar, The Arab Invasion of India (Madras: Diocesan Press, 1931),
    p. 167.


57. Ibid., p. 168.


58. Sulaiman Nadvi, Tarikh-i Sind (Aligarh: Dar al Musanafin, 1970), p. 13.


59. Mohammad Habib, "Arab Conquest of Sind," in Politics and Society during
    the Early Medieval Period: Collected Works of Professor Muhammad Habib,
    vol. 2, K. A. Nizami, ed. (Aligarh: People's Publishing House, 1981), pp. 1-35.


60. Ibid., p. 23.


61. Five Years of Pakistan (August 1947-August 1952) (Karachi: Pakistan Pub-
    lications, 1953), p. 29.


62. Tariq Rahman, "Education in Pakistan: A Survey," in Pakistan on the Brink:
    Politics, Economics, and Society, Craig Baxter, ed. (Lanham, MD: Lexington
    Books, 20~4), p. 173.


63. An excellent overview of this debate is in Ayesha Jalal, "Conjuring Pakistan:
    History as Official Imaging," International Journal of Middle East Studies
    27(1), Feb. 1995, pp. 73-89.


64. Social Studies for Class 6 (Lahore: Punjab Textbook Board, 2003), p. 72.


65. Civics for Class IX and X (Lahore: Punjab Textbook Board, 2001), pp. 19-20.