'Travels in Beloochistan and Sinde; accompanied by a geographical and historical account of those countries, with a map.' [‎380] (422/476)

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HISTORY OF SINDE.
WABS OF SINDE. THE PUNJAB AND SINDE GIVEN TO PRINCE TYMOOR.
MAHRATTAS IN GREAT POWER. ADVANTAGE TAKEN OF THIS BY THE KU-
LORAS. ULTIMATE CONSEQUENCES OF THEIR POLICY. TALPOORIES.
IN REBELLION. SEIZE THE GOVERNMENT OF SINDE, AND EXPEL THE
KULORAS. WHO ARE RE-INSTATED. AGAIN EXPELLED. MEER FUTTUH
ALLEE TALPOOREE CONFIRMED IN THE GOVERNMENT. HE REBELS.
ZEMAN SHAH'S IMPOLITIC COMPROMISE WITH HIM. ITS EFFECTS. DIVI
SION OF SINDE ON THE RISE OF THE TALPOORIES. MEER SOHRAB.
MEER THARA. THEIR TERRITORIES. — REVENUES. ARMIES. MEER
FUTTUH ALLEE DIES. PARTITION OF THE REVENUE. EXTRAORDINARY
COMPACT ENTERED INTO BY THE THREE REIGNING UMEERS. REFLEC
TIONS ON IT. ALLEDGED INCREASE IN THE REVENUE. RAPACITY AND
INSOLENCE OF THE UMEERS. THEIR VIEWS ON KUTCH BOOJE. fNTER-
POSITION OF THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT. PRESENT STATE OF SINDE.
THE AUTHOR'S OPINION REGARDING ITS UMEERS. IMPOLITIC FORBEAR
ANCE ON THE PART OF THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT. ITS EFFECTS.
HE province of Sinde is bounded on the north by the province
of Kutch Gundava, the district of Skikarpoor and the terri
tories of Buhawul Khan, commonly called Daood Pootra, to the
southward it has the Indian ocean and a part of the country ot Kutch
Booje; eastward, an extensive desert separating it from the kingdoms
and provinces of Agimere, Marwar, Oudipoor, Joudpoor, l^ick-
aneer, &;c., and westward, the provinces of Lus and Jhalawan.
The resemblance which this country bears to Egypt is so great, as
to strike the observer with surprize; a level plain, with a noble
river fertilizing each bank to a certain distance, when the face of the
earth becomes on one side a sandy desert, and on the other, a pile
of barren mountains, that are quite as inhospitable both as to soil
and climate.
The natural situation of this province, as lying on the western
frontier of the British possessions in India, and the grand barrier
which its river would oppose to an invasion from that quarter, com
bined with the facilities that the very same obstacle would afford to
our governments, as masters of the ocean, in carrying on such mi
litary operations as the advance of any hostile power towards Ilin-
doostan should call for, ought always to render Sinde an object of
vast political consideration; while its contiguity to Guzeratte and