Description
The Wahhabi documents published in this volume were chanced upon by me while I was looking through the Records of the East Pakistan Secretariat in search of materials for my thesis on the Fara'idi movement m Bengal Out of the huge corpus of papers relating to the so-called Indian Wahhabi movement, I have here selected 179 important documents which throw new light on the nature of the spread of the movement throughout Into-Pakistan subcontinent as well as on the technique adopted by Its votaries for the achievement other goal With the publication of these documents, I hope, the readers will be able to get a comprehensive idea about the movement if they are read along with earlier publications referred to in the Introduction A gist of the documents have also been offered in the Introduction with a view to enabling the readers to have a glimpse of the materials contained in this volume. It is sincerely hoped that with all these materials now made available, the task of writing a connected history of the movement with necessary details would be possible. Dr. Mum-ud-Dm Ahmad Khan deserves our grateful thanks for editing the documents and papers under the title ''Selections from the Bengal Government Records on Wahhabi Trials , which for the first time reveal in true colours the magnitude of the so-called Wahhabi Movement This corpus of documents is a separate work from his thesis on the Fara'idi movement Incidentally he is the second research scholar of the Department of History, University of Dacca, who earned a doctorate of philosophy after the birth of Pakistan. These documents now in print formed part of the material utilised in his doctorate dissertation.