Jam Raidhan

Jam Raidhan (Urdu: جام رائےدھن‎). On Sikandar’s death, Raidhan became the 13th Jam (Sultan) of Sindh. He ruled the Sindh from 1444-1453 A.D, from the ocean to Kajur, Mullee, and Khoondee, the boundaries of Matheluh, and Oobawruh.[1] Historians have different opinions about Jam Raidhan, many have argued that Jam Raidhan is no other than Jam Sanjar and they two are not different personalities but the two names for the single ruler of Sind.[2]

Jam Raidhan
Sultan of Sindh
Reign	1444-1453
Predecessor	Jam Sikandar
Successor	Jam Sanjar
Dynasty	Samma dynasty

History

In the time of Jam Tughluq, he lived in Kutch. When the news of the decease of Jam Sikandar reached him, taking many men, he went to Thatta, and collecting the men of that city, he said: “I have not come to take the country, but I have come to save the property of the Musulmans. I do not consider myself fit to be king; he whom you consider fit for the situation, make him king, and I will be the first of any to give him the hand of homage.” Amongst those men there was no one fit to be king, so all of them agreeing, placed him on the throne of the kingdom. In the course of one year and a half, he pulled beneath his rule the whole of Sind, from the ocean to Kajur, Mullee, and Khoondee, the boundaries of Matheluh, and Oobawruh.[1]

Jam Sanjar and Jam Raidhan

The accounts of earlier historians Mir Ali Sher Qaune Thattvi and Mir Muhammad Masoom Shah Bakhri has placed Jam Rai Dinu (Raidhan) and Jam Sanjar as two different rulers of Samaa dynasty with Jam Rai Dinu predecing Jam Sanjar in the history of Samaa rule over Sind. Jam Sanjar was also entitled as Sultan Saddarudin Shah. According to the commentary of remarkable historian of 20th century Mr. M.H Panhwar over the rule of Samaa dynasty he sujests the name Jam Raidhan for Jam Rai Dinu as it is being used in the folklores of Sind and the Samaat tribes of Sind still name their children with the same name.[2]

Death

Jam Roydhun was drinking wine in private, when Jam Sanjar, putting some poison in a bottle, gave it into the hands of one of his attendants, three days after drinking which Jam Roydhun died.[1]

References

1. Muhammad, Maʻsūm; George, Grenville Malet; M Pir, Muhammad (1846). A history of Sind, from the commencement of the eighth to the end of the sixteenth century. p. 65. OCLC 33339483. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
2. Lakho, compiled by Ghulam Muhammad (2006). The Samma Kingdom of Sindh: historical studies (First ed.). Jamshoro: Institute of Sindhology, University of Jamshoro. ISBN 9694050782.