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:[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=gZpeAAAAcAAJ&pg=PP3 ‪''A Few Brief Comments on Sir Charles Napier's Letter to Sir J. Hobhouse, "On the Baggage of the Indian Army"‬ ''] by Lieut-Col W Burlton of the Bengal Cavalry, late Commissary-General of the Bengal Army 1849 Google Books
:[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=gZpeAAAAcAAJ&pg=PP3 ‪''A Few Brief Comments on Sir Charles Napier's Letter to Sir J. Hobhouse, "On the Baggage of the Indian Army"‬ ''] by Lieut-Col W Burlton of the Bengal Cavalry, late Commissary-General of the Bengal Army 1849 Google Books
:[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=0QpXAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA3 ''Sir Charles Napier's Indian Baggage Corps. Reply to Lieut.-Col. Burlton's attack [i.e. to his pamphlet entitled: “A few brief comments on Sir Charles Napier's Letter to Sir John Hobhouse”''] by Major Montagu McMurdo, late Head of the Quartet-Master General’s Department of Scinde 1850 Google Books
:[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=0QpXAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA3 ''Sir Charles Napier's Indian Baggage Corps. Reply to Lieut.-Col. Burlton's attack [i.e. to his pamphlet entitled: “A few brief comments on Sir Charles Napier's Letter to Sir John Hobhouse”''] by Major Montagu McMurdo, late Head of the Quartet-Master General’s Department of Scinde 1850 Google Books
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=d84BAAAAMAAJ&pg=PR1 ''History of General Sir Charles Napier's Administration of Scinde, and Campaign in the Cutchee Hills''] by Sir William Francis Patrick Napier 1851 Google Books. [https://archive.org/details/historyofgeneral00napi/page/n7 3rd edition 1858] Archive.org.
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=wxA_AAAAYAAJ&pg=PR1 ''Selections from the Records of the Bombay Government:  No XVII New Series''.  Includes ''Remarks On The Plants, And Articles Of Cultivation In Sind; Notes Relative To The Population, The Chiefs, etc In That Province; The Pearl Fishery, Sea Fishery, And Salt Beds Of Sind''] 1855 Google Books
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=wxA_AAAAYAAJ&pg=PR1 ''Selections from the Records of the Bombay Government:  No XVII New Series''.  Includes ''Remarks On The Plants, And Articles Of Cultivation In Sind; Notes Relative To The Population, The Chiefs, etc In That Province; The Pearl Fishery, Sea Fishery, And Salt Beds Of Sind''] 1855 Google Books
*''Narrative of a Residence at the Court of Meer Ali Moorad with Wild Sports in the Valley of the Indus'' by Edward Archer Langley, late Captain,  Madras Cavalry. 1860.  [https://archive.org/details/narrativeofresid01lang Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/narrativeofresi02lang Volume II] Archive.org.
*''Narrative of a Residence at the Court of Meer Ali Moorad with Wild Sports in the Valley of the Indus'' by Edward Archer Langley, late Captain,  Madras Cavalry. 1860.  [https://archive.org/details/narrativeofresid01lang Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/narrativeofresi02lang Volume II] Archive.org.
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*[http://www.archive.org/stream/handbookpanjbwe01eastgoog#page/n6/mode/1up ''Handbook of the Panjab, Western Rajputana, Kashmir, and Upper Sindh'']  by Edward B. Eastwick, published by John Murray 1883 Archive.org<br>
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/handbookpanjbwe01eastgoog#page/n6/mode/1up ''Handbook of the Panjab, Western Rajputana, Kashmir, and Upper Sindh'']  by Edward B. Eastwick, published by John Murray 1883 Archive.org<br>
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/landfiveriversa01rossgoog#page/n5/mode/2up ''The Land of the Five Rivers and Sindh: Sketches Historical and Descriptive''] by David Ross 1883 Archive.org. Note that page 1 (at least) is missing, which may be obtained from this [http://www.archive.org/stream/landfiveriversa00rossgoog#page/n12/mode/2up link]
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/landfiveriversa01rossgoog#page/n5/mode/2up ''The Land of the Five Rivers and Sindh: Sketches Historical and Descriptive''] by David Ross 1883 Archive.org. Note that page 1 (at least) is missing, which may be obtained from this [http://www.archive.org/stream/landfiveriversa00rossgoog#page/n12/mode/2up link]
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=d84BAAAAMAAJ&pg=PR1 ''History of General Sir Charles Napier's Administration of Scinde, and Campaign in the Cutchee Hills''] by Sir William Francis Patrick Napier 1851 Google Books
*''Indian Embers'' by Lady Lawrence, first published 1948. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.136064/page/n15 Archive.org]; [https://archive.org/details/indianembers00lawr/page/n3  1991 reprint Archive.org Lending Library edition] with an "Introduction" by Kenneth Wimmel, [https://archive.org/details/indianembers00lawr_0 2nd file]. "Jane Rosamund Napier was already a published author...when she married Henry Lawrence in 1914 and set sail with him  for India. She was his second wife...a mature woman of thirty-six..." The book covers the period to 1918. Her husband was a member of the Indian Civil Service,  served as a district officer, and was Commissioner in Sind from 1916. Per Wikipedia, Henry Staveley Lawrence was acting Governor of Bombay 20 March 1926 to 8 December 1928.
 





Revision as of 01:23, 10 July 2019

Sind was part of the Bombay Presidency during the British period. It is now a province in Pakistan.

Spelling Variants

Modern name: Sind/Sindh
Other spellings: Sinde, Scinde

Status

  • 1843 to 1847 - Province
  • 1847 to 1936 - Division of Bombay Presidency.
  • 1936 to 1947 - Province

Capital

Cities and Towns

Districts

For districts during the British period see article Bombay Districts.
The following are modern districts:

Princely State

Military history

External Links

Sind Province "Wikipedia"
Sindh "wikipedia"
Panhwar.com a website about Sindh. Contains links to rare books to download, and to many articles, including two on maps called Historical Maps of Sindh and Maps of Sindh

Historical books online

Volume I- Karachi District: Archive.org/DLI 1910 (perhaps 1919?), Archive.org/DLI, [1919], Pdf download DLI 1919, different digital file; Volume II- Hyderabad District, Pdf download 1927, Archive.org version; Volume III -Sukkur District, Pdf download 1919, Archive.org version; Pdf download 1928, Archive.org version; Volume IV- Larkana District, Pdf download 1927, Archive.org version; Volume V- Nawabshah District, Pdf download 1920, Pdf download 1926, Archive.org version; Volume VI-Thar and Parkar District Pdf download 1919, Archive.org version, different file. (Not available online: B Volume VII Upper Sind Frontier District, but it is available at the British Library IOR/V/27/63/110).
A Few Brief Comments on Sir Charles Napier's Letter to Sir J. Hobhouse, "On the Baggage of the Indian Army"‬ by Lieut-Col W Burlton of the Bengal Cavalry, late Commissary-General of the Bengal Army 1849 Google Books
Sir Charles Napier's Indian Baggage Corps. Reply to Lieut.-Col. Burlton's attack [i.e. to his pamphlet entitled: “A few brief comments on Sir Charles Napier's Letter to Sir John Hobhouse” by Major Montagu McMurdo, late Head of the Quartet-Master General’s Department of Scinde 1850 Google Books