Chach Nama
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Chach Nama is a Muslim chronicle. It is also known as the Tarikh-i Hind Wa Sindh. It was translated from the original Arabic to Persian by Muhammad Ali bin Hamid bin Abu Bakr Kufi. The book is a history of the Muslim conquest of South Asia, mostly modern Pakistan, and also contains an account of the invasion by Muhammad bin Qasim.
The work describes that many of the people in Sindh were Buddhists, though later Muslim chronicles that were written after the decline and extinction of Buddhism do not mention the Buddhist monks.
The work mentions many different names of places, but the geographical location of these places is not always known.
Later Muslim chronicles like the Nizam-ud din Ahmad, Nuru-l Hakk, Firishta, and the Mir Ma'sum draw their account of the Arab conquest from the Chach-Nama.
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- The Chach-nama. English translation by Mirza Kalichbeg Fredunbeg. Delhi Reprint, 1979.
