Brahmin dynasty of Sindh: Difference between revisions

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The '''Brahmin dynasty of Sindh''' ({{Circa|632– 712}}),<ref name="Wink" /> also known as the '''Chacha dynasty''',<ref>{{Cite book|last=Rao|first=B. S. L. Hanumantha|url=|title=Indian History and Culture|last2=Rao|first2=K. Basaveswara|date=1958|publisher=Commercial Literature Company|pages=337|language=en}}</ref> were the [[Brahmin]] [[Hindu]] ruling family of the '''Chacha Empire'''. The Brahmin dynasty were successors of the [[Rai dynasty]]. The dynasty ruled on the [[Indian subcontinent]] which originated in the region of [[Sindh]], present-day [[Pakistan]]. Most of the information about its existence comes from the ''[[Chach Nama]]'', a historical account of the Chach-Brahmin dynasty.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Keay |first=John |url=http://archive.org/details/indiahistory0000keay |title=India: A History |date= |publisher=HarperCollins |others= |year=1999 |isbn=978-0-00-255717-7 |location=London |pages=182–183 |language=en}}</ref>

After the Chacha Empire's fall in 712, though the empire had ended, its dynasty's members administered parts of Sindh under the Umayyad Caliphate's [[Caliphal province of Sind]].<ref name="Wink" /> These rulers include Hullishāh and Shishah.<ref name="Wink" />

The dynasty was founded by a [[Brahmin]] named [[Chach of Aror]] after he married the widow of [[Rai Sahasi II]] and usurped the Buddhist Rai dynasty. His claim was further secured by the killing of Rai Sahasi II's brother.<ref name="Wink">{{cite book|last1=Wink|first1=André|title=Al- Hind: The Slave Kings and the Islamic Conquest |date=1991|publisher=Brill|isbn=9004095098|pages=152–153|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bCVyhH5VDjAC|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=MacLean|first=Derryl N.|title=Religion and Society in Arab Sind|publisher=Brill|year=1989|isbn=9004085513}}</ref>

The casus belli for the Ummayad invasion was Sindhi pirates seizing tribute sent from the king of Serendib to the Ummayad Caliph. For the campaign Caliph [[Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan]] granted a large army to the governor [[Al-Hajjaj ibn Yusuf]], but no attempt was made to annex Sindh due to the caliph's death. Under his son and successor [[Al-Walid I]], the general [[Muhammad bin Qasim]] led Islamic invasion of Sindh in 712.