Narrative of a visit to the court of Sinde at Hyderabad on the Indus : illustrated with plates and a map, with a Sketch of the history of Cutch and an appendix / by James Burnes.

James Burnes

Date:: 1839

Credit: Narrative of a visit to the court of Sinde at Hyderabad on the Indus : illustrated with plates and a map, with a Sketch of the history of Cutch and an appendix / by James Burnes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$whom many chiefs of the Arabs, descended from Hamzah, the uncle of the prophet, and Ali his cousin, were then subject. To these ances^ tors we ma/(|trace the Saiyds of Sinde, and the family of the Sumrahs. Several years previous to the arrival of ]\Ia- hommedans from Saumrah, a governor of the country, and subject to the Khalifs of the house of Ommaiah, built Mansurah. According to the Arabic geographical dictionary, called Maajmu al Baldan, and also Masudi, this person is named Manhur, the son of Jamhur. The city, which is described of great extent, and rich in commer- cial articles, was situated on a canal of the river Mihran, or Indus. Its inhabitants were of the family of Hibar I bn Alaswad, descended from the Ilani Omar of the tribe of Kureish ; and its pro- bable site was that fixed on by I). Anville and Captain M‘Murdo, where Nasirpur was founded at a sybsequent period. The Sumrahs, as already mentioned, became first known in Indian history during the reign of Mahmood of Ghizni, and lost their own power in Sinde about A. D. 1351, when, during the reign of Firoz Toghlak, an army from Delhi was led into Sivistan, against the Moghuls of Seistan, who had invaded Sinde. At this period, the name of fam Abrah Sammah first appears in history ; and under this chief, the Sammahs^ of Kach, a branch of the Rajputs, migrated from their original country into Kach and Kattywar. The Summahs, who succeeded to the power of the Sumrahs, were originally a pastoral tribe, in-$