] 96 Of the early History of Sindh. [No. 111. 



was governor of Alor, the other places being governed, as before-men- 

 Deputies from the tioned ; five other governors, deputies of the Khalif 

 hae! of Bent Oomhae, governed Sindh successively, with 



little or no alteration in the state of affairs, until in the year 133 h. 

 the power over that country passed to the Khalif s of the dynasty of Beni 

 Abbas. The period of the rule of the deputies of the Khalif s of Beni Oomhae 

 in Sindh, embraces a period of 40 years from its conquest in 93 to 133 

 h. (a. d. 750.) 



Sindh continued to be a dependency of the Khalif s of the tribe of 

 Beni Abbas, who sent many deputies to govern the country. Th< 

 only circumstance noted as worthy of observation throughout theii 

 rule, is, that one of the governors named Tumun, who arrived froi 

 Bagdad, brought with him many Arabs, residents of Samrah, wh< 

 remained in Sindh, and in the course of time, produced the powerful 

 tribe called the Soomrahs. In the year h. 416 (a. d. 1025,) Sooltan 

 Mahmood Ghuzney sent deputies to the country of Sindh, thus 

 terminating the sovereignty of the tribe of Beni Abbas, after a period 

 of 283 years. The men of Soomrah had for a period of nearly 100 

 years been powerful zumindars ; but as they continued to pay tax and 

 tribute, they will be hereafter treated of as rulers. 



The deputies of the kings of Ghuzneiny, Ghoor, and Delhi, possessed 



Deputies of the many of the provinces of Sindh, and sent governors 



kings ot Ghuznein, ° 



Ghoor, and Dehli, to them from the time of Sooltan Mahmood Ghuzei- 



possess some of the 



provinces in Sindh. ny, until a man named soomrah, of that tribe, during 



the reign of Sooltan Abool Rusheed Ghuznein, was by the Soomrahs 

 placed upon the throne, about 446 h. (1054 a. d.) and ruled indepen- 

 dently. According to some writers, this tribe were originally Arabs, from 

 a place called Samrah ; they became zumindars in Sindh, of some power, 

 and after the departure of the tribe of Beni Abbas, their numbers in- 

 creased ; whilst the deputies of the kings of Guzneiny, Ghoor, and Dehli 

 possessed portions of the country, the Soomrahs ruled independently. 

 According to the author of the Muntukhib-ul- Tuwareek, Sooltan 



Origin and rule of the Abool Rusheed being of weak intellect, neglected 

 tribe of Soomrah. ^ dominions> and the men of Sindh threw off his 



allegiance; and in the year 445 h. (1053 a. d.) placed a man 

 of the tribe of Soomrah, named Soomrah, on the throne. He mar- 

 ried the daughter of Sad, a zumindar, by whom he had Bahoon- 



