INDEX 249
Sadusa, 39
Safarnama (Jahaniyan), 19
Sahib,I\1urad,78-81,79,2o4n2
Sahisi, 133
Saivites, II?
Samanids, 50
Samarkand, 49, 51
Samdesarasaka ('Abdur-Rahman), 71-72
Sam Ghur, I\1uhammad bin, 50-51, 57
Samma people, 154, 182
Sanskrit (language and literature), 16,
31, 54, 97, 180, 196n57
Sarandip, 29
Sarkar, Jadunath, 172
Sarkar, Nilanjan, 201n28, 207n34
Sassanid Empire, 25, 29-31, 35
Saudi Arabia, 178
Savarkar, V. D., 3
Sawandari, 40
Sawwar Abdi, 'Abdallah bin, 195n38
Scinde, and the Races that Inhabit the
Valley of the Indus (Burton), 165
Scinde, or the Unhappy Valley
(Burton), 165
Sebuktigin, 50
Secretum Secretorum (Pseudo-
Callisthenes), 93-94, 206n26
Sen, Tansen, 192n3
Shahab, I\1asood Hasan, 2nn1
Shahnama (Firdawsi), 92, 94-95, IOI
Shahzad, Faisal, 8-9, 146
Shakr, Fariduddin Ganj-i, 121
Shamasastry, R., 207n35
Sharar, Abdul Halim, 8
Shayban, Jalm bin, n2
Shikoh, Dara, 181
Shujara-i Ansab (I\1udabbir), 57
Shulman, David, 198m
Siddiqui, Aafia, 9
Sikhism, 148, 170
Sila'ij, Chach bin. See Chach bin Sila'ij
Simmel, Georg, 19m35
Sind: archaeology in, 69-77, 202n50;
British colonial accounts of, 145-146,
160-171, 178, 183-184; in
ChachnaJ!.a, 13-14, 66, 69-77;
Chachnama's composition and, 20;
conquest narratives and, 2, n-12,
34-44, 47-48; cosmopolitanism of,
20-21, 24-34, 40, 44-46, 48-51,
55-62, 173, 198n2; definitions of, 31;
Greek understandings of, 92-93;
I\1uslim otherness and, 48-52, 69-77,
IO?, n6, 156-158, 162-171; religious
diversity in, I03-I07, n7-r25,
157-158; sacral sites in, ro, 17, 23-26,
69, 71, I03-I07, 120-125, 182-183.
See also colonialism; conquest
narratives; India; I\1uslims
Singh, Jay, 75
Singh, Ranjit, 160
Sinjan, 75
Siraf, 30
sira texts, 33
Sistan, 35-36
Siyasatnama (Nizam I\1ulk), 95
Smith, Lewis, 216n23
Smith, Vincent A., 8, 163, 167, 170-171
Society to Correct Errors in History, 173
Sohnan Devi, Rani, 65-66, 131-136, 140
Solinus,.29, 93
Somalia, 26, 29
Somanatha (Thapar), 188n6
South China Sea, 26
Spain, 34
spatiality (in historiography), 16-19
Sprenger, Aloys, 168
Sri Lanka, 36-37, 150-151, 193m7
Strabo, 28
Subrahmanyam, Sanjay, 198n1
Sufi Islam, 53, I02-I03, I06-107,
121-122, 128-131, 155
Suhrawardi (order), I06
Suhrawardi, Najib al-Din, I06
Surat, 71
Suri, Sher Shah, 153
Suria Deo, 137
Surkh Bukhari, Jalaluddin, 23
Syria, 28, 34, 41
Syros, Vasileios, 207n34
Tabaqat-i Nasiri (Juzjani), 48, 51-53, 58,
143-144
Tabari, 33, 55-56, 59, 64, 94, 152-153
Taj, Imtiaz Ali, 147
Taj ul-Ma'athir (Nizami), 53
Talbot, Cynthia, 4, 188n6
Tally, Robert, 19m37
Talpurs, 159-160, 163, 167, 182
Tamil, 180