'Travels in Beloochistan and Sinde; accompanied by a geographical and historical account of those countries, with a map.' [‎397] (439/476)

HISTORY OF SINDE.
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hitherto unsuccessfully tried to discover. The Persians had, in this
interval, possessed themselves of Kandahar, and it is probable that
the Kuloras may have been a tribe of adventurers, sprung from
their army, who usurped the supreme authority in Sinde, and at
the same time professed fealty to the Emperors of Hindoostan ; who
were always less scrupulous about the justice of the claims of those
governors, who were not appointed from court, provided the tribute
was paid with its accustomed regularity. *
It would only be repeating what I have already for my present
purpose sufficiently explained f, were I to enlarge on the invasion
of Hindoostan by Nadir Shah. That great event in the annals of
India occurred in 1739, and one of the results of it was, the cession
of Sinde and all the provinces lying west of the river Indus to the
crown of Persia. Nadir visited Tattah on his return homewards,
where, according to oral accounts, he was most magnificently enter
tained J, and did not remove the governor. The murder of that
conqueror was perpetrated in 1747, and on the dismemberment of
the vast empire he had founded, arose the monarchy of Kabool, of
which Sinde is now a dependent province. The Nuwwabs of it do
not, however, seem to have at once acknowlpdged the title of this
* Since I wrote the above I find that the Kuloras were originally sprung from a re
ligious sect, and claimed descent from the Abbaside dynasty. About the year 15iJ0, they
began, under the cloak of religion, to levy contributions in Sinde, which they extended
until the natives became so much exasperated that they rose against them, and notwith
standing the sanctity of his character, put their chief to death, driving all his disciples
to Kelat in Beloochistan. They afterwards returned, with the permission of the Em
peror ot I lindoostan, and gradually advanced themselves until their chief got possession of
the government of Tattah.
f See historical account of Beloochistan, Chapter III. Part II. also remarks on
Tattah, Chapter IX. Part II.
X I n Sir William Jones's French translation of the history of Nadir Shah, Meean Noor
Mohummud, the then Nuwwab of lattah, is spoken of as Khodayar Khan, which was a title
bestowed upon him by Mohummud, Emperor of Hindoostan. He fled to Omarkote on the
appi oach of the 1 ersian army, but having been made prisoner, and brought back to
Tattah; it was there that he gave such satisfaction to the conqueror, and that the events
happened that I have mentioned in a preceding Chapter.