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About The Book: The first two sections of the following Memoir were written and printed seven years. Ago. Since then a few copies have been privately circulated among friends who are interested in the subjects of which it treats. Within the last year the original plan of the little work has been carried to completion, but under the disadvantage of distance from large libraries and the consequent impossibility of refreshing my acquaintance with works especially Oriental works which it would have been desirable to consult anew. I have thus been obliged to depend in great measure on the resources of a very modest library, on notes and extracts made when opportunities were more favourable, and, in the last resort, on a memory for which I am obliged to ask the reader's most indulgent consideration. The Memoir pretends to be nothing more than a rough guide for those in Sindh, who, taking an interest in the past of a province, one of the poorest, and in its outward aspect the least lovely in India, care to seek out the relics of former ages, and trace for themselves some picture of the country as it was at different periods of its generally troubled history. About The Author: M. R. Haig MRAS (1830 - 1900) Malcolm was born about 1830, judging by his career path with the Bombay Army of the East India Company. His lineage is not known although his father is stated to be Robert Haig. MRAS is Member of the Royal Asiatic Society of which he, and a number of Officers of the EIC, were members. His career can be followed in details through the Annual Army Lists and the accounts of the company. The Army List of 1883, page 546, after his retirement, provides a complete overview of his career. He applies for a cadetship in the EIC Army in 1845 and appears as Ensign, with seniority dated 13 June 1846. The youngest, for the East India Armies, he could have been at that time was 16. He was assigned to the 5th Regiment of Bombay Native (Light) Infantry and would be with them until about 1865 when he is appointed, as Major, to the Bombay Staff Corps, at, what is now, Mumbai (then Bombay), Maharashta, India. He was promoted Lieutenant 25 Feb 1851 and Captain 10 May 1860.