INDEXArthashastra (Kautilya), 12, 85, 92,
96-97,207n35,208n36
Arzu, Khan-e, 49
Asar al-Bilad wa Akhbar al 'Ibad
(Qazwini), 75
Asif, K., 147
Asoka, 1
Astrabadi, Muhammad Qasim, 156-158,
163, 169, 215nro
astrology, 84-85, 89, 205n7
Attar, Fariduddin, ror
Auer, Blain, 2orn28
'Awfi, Muhammad, 48, 53-54, 57-59, 75
Axum, 30
Ayaz (Shaikh), 146, 213n34
Aybeg, Qutbuddin, 50-51
Azfar Moin, A., 188n7
Baba Farid, 121-125, 2ron33
Bab al-Mandab, 30
Bahar, Zahiruddin, 2, 49, 153
Bahri Masjid, 4
Baghdad, 14, 25, 32, 44, 72, 136, 139-140,
144-149, 184
Baghrur, 40
Bahrain, 35
Bahr ul-Ansab (Mudabbir), 53
Baladhuri, 26, 34-46, 63-64, IIO-II3,
196n56, 2om37
Bal'ami, 55-56
Balhara, 73-74
Baloch, Nabi Baksh Khan, 13, 172, 175
Banerjee, Prathama, 208n36
Bangladesh, 6-7, 176, 180
Bano, Hamida, 148
Barani, Zia Din, 56, 96, 207n34
Barmak, 56
Barmaki, Yahya bin Khalid, 203n60
Baroda University, 171
Basri, Azdi, 33, 63
Bay of Bengal, 26-27
Begam, Nadira, 147
Bellasis, A. F., 202n50
Bengal, 26, 156
Benjamin, Walter, 18, 19rn38
Beyhaqi, 67-69, 152
Bhag Mal, Rai, 122
Bhakkari, Mir Muhammad Masum.
See Masum, Mir Muhammad
Bhambhor, 175
Bhutto, Zulfiqar,Ali, 176
Bibi Ayesha, 128
Bibi Jawindi, 128, 129, 147
Bibi Tigni, 128
Bijapur, 156
Bilhana, 198n2
Biruni, Abu Rayhan, 94, III-II3
Bloch, Marc, 22, 187nr
Brahmanabad, 14, 107-109, 119-120, 125
Britain. See colonialism; India
Broach, 35, 50
Bronner, Yigal, 97-98
Buddhism, 13, 30, 37, 43, 89, 98, 107-no,
II4, II7-120, 124-127, 135-136, 180.
See also conquest narratives;
politics; religion
Budhiman, 97
Bukhara, 49
Bukhari, S. A., 47-48
Burnes, Alexander, 160
Burton, Richard R., 163-166
Byzantium, 30, 192n3
Calcutta Review, 171
Calcutta University, 171
Cambay, 50, 71-72, 75
Campbell, Gwyn, 192n3
caretakers (of sacral sites), u3-n4,
150-152, 182-184
Cervantes, Miguel de, 201n36
Ceylon, 30, 134, 192n3, 193n17
Chach bin Sila'ij, 12-13, 64-66, 81-86,
9I, I07, II8-II9, I25, 131-132, I40
Chachnama: advice genre and, 81-102,
109-uo, 206n22; citations of,
156-158, 202n50; colonial readings
of, 5-21, 69, 140-141, 162-171,
174-175, 181-184, 19on32;as
conquest narrative, 15-16, 19-20,
32-34, 62-67, 83, 95-96, I5I-l52, I72;
letter-writing tropes of, 21, 81-86,
106-107, 206n22; local understand-
ings of, 47-48; methodology for
reading of, 17-19, 182; nationalist
understandings of, 175; oral accounts
of, 80-'81; political theory in, 15,
19-21, 48, 68-69, 81-86, IOI-I02 1
u6, 124-127, 138-139, 149; as
regional history, 152-155, 163, 172,
181-182; religious diversity and,
66-67, ro6-u5, 124-127; romantic
gibberish trope and, 9-12, 130, 145,