Matthew A. Cook is Associate Professor at the Department of History and the Department of Language and Literature at the North Carolina Central University, USA. His past teaching appointments include: North Carolina State University, New York University (NYU), Columbia University, Hofstra University, and Duke University. His research focus is on Sindh, colonialism in South Asia, and the methodological conjunction of anthropology and history. He is editor and co-editor of three books by Oxford University Press, Observing Sindh: Selected Reports by Edward Paterson Del Hoste (2008); Interpreting the Sindhi World: Essays on Society and History (2010); and his latest being this book, Willoughby’s Minute: Treaty of Nownahar, Fraud, and British Sindh (2013). Cook recently completed a book manuscript titled, Annexation and the Unhappy Valley: The Colonization of Sindh by the East India Company. He is also the author of book chapters, journal articles, and reviews published by Oxford University Press, Edwin Mellen Press, Eastern Anthropologist, Sagar, Columbia Journal of Historiography, Columbia Historical Review, Educational Practice and Theory, Curriculum and Teaching, South Asian Review, Pacific Affairs and Itinerario.