JOURNAL 



ASIATIC SOCIETY. 



Of the early History of Sindh, from the " Chuch Namuh" and other 

 authorities. By Lieut. Postans, Assist. Pol. Agent, Shikarpore. 



[My able correspondent, Lieut. Postans, has been for some time persever- 

 ingly employed in tracing out whatever material is available in Sindh, for 

 the purpose of throwing light upon its early history. A book called the 

 " Chuch Namuh," is the principal authority to which he has had recourse in 

 preparing the historical sketch, which he has enabled me to have the satisfac- 

 tion of publishing. Both he and Capt. Hart (2d Grenadiers, Bombay army) 

 who has been turning his attention to similar pursuits, despair of discover- 

 ing any more authentic work bearing upon the early history of Sindh, and 

 agree in describing the modern Sindhees as so illiterate and apathetic, as 

 neither to have the will, nor the power to further their researches. I still, 

 however, do not despair of the recovery of other, authorities, as the country 

 becomes better known to us. 



In the mean time, Lieut. Postans has ably and successfully availed himself 

 of all the material at his disposal, which, dating from the Mussulman in- 

 roads, may be fairly considered as authentic. The short notice of the 

 history of Sindh before that period, to be found in the works of Mussulman 

 authors, must be necessarily in many respects of a traditional character, 

 and we indeed find, that the Chuch Namuh does not attempt to do more than' 

 describe the revolution which destroyed the ancient Sindian dynasty in 

 the century immediately preceding the Islamite invasion. The use of the 

 modern Persian name Bruhmanabad, as applied to a city in the days of 

 Chuch, gives sufficient proof of the loose manner in which the Mussulman 

 historian collected his material ; he was perhaps, in the spirit of a genuine 

 Moslem, careless of all respecting the infidel inhabitants of the land, which was 

 not in some way immediately connected with the advent of his own people. 

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