Willoughby’s Minute describes events that surround the 1842 Treaty of Nownahar. Its focus is on how the indigenous sovereign Mir Ali Morad committed a fraud when he altered the treaty. Authored by John Pollard Willoughby, a career East India Company civil servant and Bombay Council Board member, the Minute provides an alternative genealogy to contextualize British debates about Sindh’s annexation. This genealogy does not focus on Britain’s aggressive anti-Russian imperial policy in Afghanistan (i.e., the Great Game). Instead, it demonstrates how a local treaty—that did not involve the British directly—contextualizes Sindh’s annexation and the institutional relationship between civil and military authority within the East India Company.
Centre of Social Sciences in Karachi Series
The ‘Centre of Social Sciences in Karachi Series’ has been developed by the Centre of Social Sciences in Karachi (CSSK), with Michel Boivin as Series Editor. The CSSK was established in 2011 with the aim of promoting scholarship and learning on issues related to the diverse, multi-faceted societies and cultures among the Muslims of South Asia. The academic publications in this series will fall into a number of interrelated categories:
a. Proceedings of conferences, seminars, and workshops as arranged by the CSSK.
b. Occasional papers.
c. Monographs of various authors devoted to issues illustrating the subtle nuances of societies and cultures among the Muslims of South Asia.
d. Editions and translations of poetic or literary texts.
e. Bibliographical works and catalogues.
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