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By Sarah F. D. Ansari
Utilizing a wealth of ancient fabric and in-depth interviews, the writer seems to be on the improvement of the establishment of the pir, its strength base and the mechanics of the method of keep watch over into which the pirs have been drawn. the general good fortune of the political approach relied on the willingness of the elite to take part and Dr. Ansari argues that it did certainly paintings in Sind. This enabled the British to control whereas permitting the pirs to conform to colonial rule, and later independence, with out critical harm to their pursuits.
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Many religious families received grants of land in inam under the Mughals, and, although there were already grants dating from the fourteenth century, the period of Mughal rule saw the vast extension of this practice. 51 Sind formed the southern part of the Mughal subah of Multan for almost 150 years. But, by the first decades of the eighteenth century, Delhi's hold on the province had weakened considerably. Just as elsewhere in the empire, Aurangzeb's death in 1707 signalled the beginning of the breakdown of Mughal authority.
Sorley, Shah Abdul Latif p. 167. 23 SUFI SAINTS AND STATE POWER a 'regal' lifestyle protected pirs against some of the insecurities inherent in the relationship between a purely temporal master and his subjects. Pirs as mediators between tribes Spiritual factors by themselves, however, cannot totally explain why the institution of the pir grew so powerful in the region. Its increased strength was also closely related to the nature of Sind's social and economic structure, which changed quite considerably as tribes gradually settled on the irrigated plains of the Indus valley.
Sind was a border region in Mughal eyes and needed to be kept secure. At the same time, there were still many nomadic pastoral tribes in the desert and the hilly tracts who raided settled localities but whom the Mughals found difficult to subdue. 50 The Mughals also transferred to local hands a great deal of the responsibility for the supervision of both the local revenue system and the irrigation network on which that revenue largely depended. Mughal administration in Sind relied greatly on the loyalty and cooperation of local power holders and this resulted in the 'wholesale creation of privilege' based on the Mughal system of land tenure.