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information. In this connection I must thank Mohini Mansukhani, Ramakrishna Advani, Prof. K.N. Vaswani, Sewakram Karamchand, Uttamchand Issrani, Vishnu Shahani, Prof. D.L. Kaka, Gopal Gurbuxani, Gopal Mittal, Ram Keswani, Prem Daswani, Prof. M. P. Lakhani, Lakshmichand Rupchandani, Narayan Wadhwani and Gobindram Chellani. Thanks are also due to Nana Wagh for his sketches of Seth Naoomal and Sir Bartle Frere --- and to K. B. Kumar for his excellent map of Sindh. I am particularly grateful to Dr. Murlidhar Jetley who opened up his treasurehouse of Sindh books to me with a cheer that encouraged me to delve deeper and deeper into them. But for his help this book would not be what it is. Dr. Haridev Sharma, Head of Research and Publications Division, Nehru Memorial Library, was extremely helpful in a variety of ways. Shri Devendra Swaroop of Deendayal Research Institute was always ready with the necessary facts and figures. Sitaram Goel, Jhamat Wadhwani, Gangu Kripalani and Arun Shukla read the whole manuscript and made many valuable suggestions. Thanks are also due to Shri Janardanan of DRI Library for his research assistance --- and to Vijay Gupta, Rajesh Bansal and Ambika Dharmapalan, for their quick and competent typing. Readers who have any suggestions or comments to make for a second edition, are welcome to do so on the following address. B-51 New Rajendra Nagar, K.R. MALKANI New Delhi-110060. Raksha Bandhan, 1984. The Sindh Story; Copyright © www.panhwar.com 9
Foreword MY FRIEND Kewal Malkani is a journalist, a scholar and a perceptive student of Indian History. Being a product of Sindh, it is not surprising that he has devoted a good bit of industry and his historical insights for presentation of a panoramic view of the land of his birth. What surprises me, however, is his wish that I write a foreword to this most interesting book. I must confess that his command both flattered and frightened me. I do not know why Kewal’s choice fell on me. Whatever my other pretension, and like many politicians I have quite a few, a deep study of history or a reasonable facility in historical presentation are by no means amongst them. I suspect it is a case of a pleasing misunderstanding. Even so I enjoy it. But it is more than neutralised by the thought that keeping up the pretence would require some amount of labour. The task seemed rather difficult, rendered more so by professional and political preoccupations. But then there happened one of those unexplained accidents. My doctors diagnosed a faulty heart and peremptorily put me to rest. With the heart wired to an E.C.G. monitoring machine, I read through the twenty chapters of the manuscript starting with ‘Sindhu is Divine’ and ending with ‘The Sindhi Revival’. It is no exaggeration to say that I enjoyed every word and the reading certainly made my forced incarceration bearable. Deep gaps in my knowledge of what Sindh was, what it could have become and what it still might be in the future, have been agreeably filled. I share Kewal’s pride in what might be generally described as ‘Sindhiat’. I greatly admire this outstanding product of his industry and research and heartily commend it to others. I hope the book will get into every Library, public and private. Everyone will enjoy it --- even those who are not in a hospital bed. At the time of publication, however, the country is going through a monumental crisis. The levers of power have passed into the hands of men without morals and politicians without principles. Every part of the national anatomy is suffering from grave disorder. Scores of corrupt wheeler dealers, fixers, middle- men, con-men, their corrupt clients and principals have infested the landscape like hungry locusts devouring the thin crop that the poor of the country still manage to produce. The poor are too hungry even to be perplexed by the blight that has over taken them and the rich are busy making hay while the sun shines. The intellectuals and men of honest judgment are woe fully silent, struck by a strange paralysis of the moral muscle and the vocal chords. The production of the book at this time on the other hand is so much more evidence of the author’s inner equilibrium, sense of poise add objective scholarship. May be, in the true spirit of the Gita, he laboured for love leaving the result to inscrutable Providence. Naturally, I admire him all the more for it. The Sindh Story; Copyright © www.panhwar.com 10
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Page 4 and 5: Appendix: G M Syed’s Visit .. ..
Page 6 and 7: Preface to Reprint “The Sindh Sto
Page 8 and 9: My grateful thanks are due to Prof.
Page 12 and 13: Mr. Malkani’s book is a book of h
Page 14 and 15: --- “Employment of appropriate ph
Page 16 and 17: effort had been made to synthesise
Page 18 and 19: Long have we suffered; see how grie
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Page 22 and 23: Interestingly enough, the Bhagvad G
Page 24 and 25: Sindhu Mata THE VEDAS and the Puran
Page 26 and 27: to Encyclopedia Britannica, “the
Page 28 and 29: no lime in the area to use as cemen
Page 30 and 31: Alexander’s Waterloo in Sindh EVE
Page 32 and 33: The philosophers in turn posed him
Page 34 and 35: Truth about Dahir Sen THE PROPHET o
Page 36 and 37: next 80 years, led by Hakam, Abdull
Page 38 and 39: army of Islam became irresolute and
Page 40 and 41: order to meet the financial deficie
Page 42 and 43: priest would not agree to Sita beco
Page 44 and 45: “Jhoolay Lal” WHEN Mahmud Ghazn
Page 46 and 47: of the Khaljis. But more revealing
Page 48 and 49: The Umar Marui is one long paean of
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Page 52 and 53: Napier had written off all the pre-
Page 54 and 55: loosely knit system that could be a
Page 56 and 57: Dayaram helped set up the Nari Shal
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muttered “lainat! lainat!” in r
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to convert them to Christianity. An
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anybody else. Colonel Trevor, the C
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The theosophists also joined hands
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“Sangathan”, and “Sanskriti
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Freedom Movement in Sindh “NADIR
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When Tilak visited Sindh in 1920, y
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of 40 women satyagrahis. Many young
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Ahmedabad municipality and Subhas C
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“I am a Sindh” -- Gandhi “EVE
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consider him a Mahatma. He used to
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On one occasion not only was a saty
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not anti-Muslim. I decline to think
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wrote to Sucheta in 1945 to ask Kri
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able to admit of inter-migration, s
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Thrown to the Wolves INDIA BECAME F
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sessions judge of Hyderabad, an Eng
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Hindus were, if anything, even more
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esolution. “He just allowed us to
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from 30 to 400. During this one Lea
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Nehru declined the offer --- even a
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In January, 1948, Government of Ind
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The Sindhi leaders in their goodnes
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language of Sindh, Bhutto had the p
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and destiny. In the process it has
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ealization, and not in hatred and v
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Allah Alone Knows SINDH’S REJECTl
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Baluchi guerrillas and 3,300 Pakist
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It will thus be seen that the democ
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G. M. Syed Or Sindh has said that a
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Sindhi Society and Culture SlNDHI S
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Cardinal Wolsey, was murdered in th
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Panhwar, Malah, Mangta, Sodha, Dhat
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And Muslim backwardness in the fiel
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malicious, Sir Bhutto’s wife, who
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Muslims believed that marriages sol
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Shah, Sachal and Swami LANGUAGE AND
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Sindhian ra istalah Sindh madah; Hi
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you want to be a yogi, follow the g
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Mohammed Khan Sewhani, Bherumal Meh
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Even as they tried to lift themselv
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Individual Sindhis have also made a
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just dubhashis, bilingual; they are
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Appendix: Report on G M Syed’s De
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The Bar Association of the Supreme
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Q. Why are you more opposed to Bhut
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(English) Bibliography Ahmed Q.: Th
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Sheikh, M. Somar: Kachyun Ja Qaul S
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