Abstract
There is an abundance of source material for studying the political history of Sindh during the Mughal era, which provides meticulous accounts of the politics and administrative achievements of the period but reveal very little about the lives of the common people. There are no accounts of the toil and sufferings of the common people because thesemight negate the praises showered by the court historians on their patron rulers. As a result, very rarely do historical accounts make any reference to the life and conditions of themasses. However there areincidental remarks aboutthe social aspect ofsociety in some compilations of non-political genre (such as hagiographicliterature, biographical dictionaries, epistles, manuals, poetic expressions etc). The other sourcewhich may be used for studying the socio-economic and cultural history of the region are the accounts of European travelers who visited Sindh in that era.