Publisher's Synopsis
Alexander Bailie's Kurrachee--Past, Present, and Future, orginally published in 1890, is an account of the city and port of Karachi as seen some fifty years after the British occupation of Sind in 1839. This reprint contains a new introduction by Yasmin Lari, author of The Dual City: Karachi Under the Rag (OUP, 1996), and new illustrations by Ishrat Suhrawardy.