The Fatahnamah-i-Sindh, also known as the Chachnama, has remained a much debated history of Sindh. Being the oldest record available, not much is known about its author. The original Arabic version disappeared and only the Persian translation written by Muhammad Ali Ibn Abu Bakr Kufi, in 1220 AD, remains. Critics have found it to be a romanticised account and believe that it carries statements that may have been interpolated by Ali Kufi. However, it remains the only detailed account of the subjugation of Sindh, and traces the art of warfare along with the social, political, religious and economic condition of Sindh in the early 5th century A.D. Mirza Kalich Beg’s translation in 1900 has been followed by others, Dr. Umar bin Muhammad Daudpota edited the first Persian text in 1939, and Dr. N. A. Baloch worked on the Persian text from 1944 to 1963. This book includes the Persian text, its edited preface, introduction, notes and commentary in English. First published by the Institute of Islamic History, Culture and Civilisation Islamabad in 1982, it was now reprinted on the occasion of Dr. Baloch’s centenary birth celebration.