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THE identification of the most probable site of Debal, the medieval port of Sind (Pakistan), which was stormed by the ATab GeneTal Mu.
This was during the transitional period, between the fall of the ·Umayyads, and the rise of the Abbasides, After this we again hear of Debal after a lapse of a century during the 1, For details see my article: "The Probable dates of Early Arab Expeditions to India", in the "Islamic Culture" Hyderabad Deccan, Issue of July.
2. Vide under Idrisi, in Elliot & Dowson's HistorJ of India, London, 1887,Vol. I, and alse Raverty's Mehran of Sind, Journals of Royal Asiatic SocietJ of B~nga!, Calcutta, P.
territory on the sea-coast", 1• The second important and -probably the last ·reference to Debal which also.
17) 3, Subsequent references· are either based on early information or pertain to the name 'Debal • which was subsequently transferred to new ports of the Indus Delta, (Vtde infra) Sindhi Diulcinde, and at a later period the English did the same", 1.
· To complete the story of these Indus Delta ports, it may be pointed out that Debal was succeeded by Loharani Bandar, first mentioned as such by al-Beruni in the 11th century.
and Henry Cousens almost confidently argues that "Thatta occupies the site of the more ancient town of Dewal or Debal".
" 9 · Thesestatements of early authoritative writers as well as their maps which invariably show Debal to the west of the western most delta branch of the Indus.