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Willoughby`s Minute: The Treaty of Nownahar, Fraud, and British Sindh (Centre of Social Sciences in Karachi)

	Willoughby`S Minute: The Treaty Of Nownahar, Fraud, And British Sindh (Centre Of Social Sciences In Karachi) by Matthew A. Cook
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Histories often link British actions in Sindh to an aggressive anti-Russian imperial policy in Afghanistan (i.e., the Great Game). While these histories capture the politics and policies that surround British imperialism in the 1840s, they also strip Sindh`s history of complex local interactions. In this historiography, indigenous players and circumstances are lost to the Great Game as the only legitimate context for understanding British actions in Sindh. Willoughby`s Minute, which describes events surrounding the 1842 Treaty of Nownahar, illustrates how a fraud by a local Talpur ruler named Mir Ali Morad informs Sindh`s subsequent annexation by the British. The Minute also demonstrates how a local treaty that did not involve the British provides an alternative genealogy to historically contextualize British debates about the East India Company`s actions in Sindh. This genealogy focuses not on the Great Game but a debate secretly involving the Minute`s author and his beliefs about the institutional relationship between civil and military authority within the Company.ISBN - 9780199068258

Pages : 350