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The central question of this research is why users of the irrigation system in Sindh, Pakistan do not organize to collectively manage this vital and scarce resource. The research tests the central hypothesis that recent changes in the agrarian structure of rural Sindh, embedded …

This study takes as its focus the history and representation of Muhammad b. Qasim, the commander of the Muslim forces which conquered the region of Sindh (present day Pakistan) in the eighth century. The history of Muhammad b. Qasim emerged as a central originary myth for the po…