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and destiny. In the process it has suffered badly. Because of Partition, two Indo- Pak wars had been fought on the soil of Punjab, hurting the Punjabis badly. The Punjabis also feel amputated by separation from other Punjabis, now in India; hence their keen desire to woo back the Sikhs. The Punjabi Muslims will have to recover their heritage of Nanak-Warris- Bulay Shah, to be at peace with themselves and with others. As for the state of Pakistan, Sindh rejects it wholly. Sindh has always been there, Pakistan is a passing show. Sindh is a fact, Pakistan is a fiction. Sindhis are a nation, but Muslims are not a nation. Sindhi language is 2,000 years old, Urdu is only 250 years old. Sindhi has 52 letters, Urdu has only 26. The enslavement of Sindh by the Punjab in the name of “Pakistan” and “Islam” is a fraud. It is the most serious crisis in the history of Sindh in the past 2,000 years. The Sindhis have long been fooled in the name of Islam. Many of them tried to trace their ancestry to Persian, Turkish and Arab families. Some of them could be heard singing their desire to sweep the streets of Mecca and to die in Medina. “Under the impact of foreign Muslim rule, even a foreign sparrow came to be regarded a nightingale in Sindh.” N ow they realize that all this is folly. “Only a fool dances to other people’s tunes.” They had thought that the “Islamic state of Pakistan” would .be good for them. But it had been a disaster. “We are reminded of the animal which went to get some horns, and returned with its ears chopped off.” “Sindh rejects the Arabian edition of Islam, it rejects the Punjabi version of Pakistan, and it rejects made-in-India Urdu. Iqbal and Jinnah have been worse disasters for Indian Muslims than Chenghiz and Halaku. Sindh rejects them both.” When Pakistan celebrated Jinnah centenary, lakhs of posters appeared in Sindh denouncing the Quaid-e-Azam as Qadu Hajam (Silly Barber), Qatil-e- Azam (Great Murderer), Kafir-e-Azam (the Great Heathen), and Ghadar-i-Sindh (Traitor to Sindh). Many Muslims look upon Iqbal as the prophet and poet of Pakistan, who enunciated the theory of partition in his presiden- tial address at the Allahabad session of the Muslim League in 1930. But Sindhi nationalists look upon him as a Punjabi chauvinist and British stooge. They point out that when the Muslims were agitated over the British attack on Turkey during World War I, Iqbal had sung: “I offer my head in the war, please accept this humble gift from a loyal subject.” In 1923, when others were returning their titles over the British excesses, Iqbal agreed to be knighted. The Muslim League split into two in 1928 over its attitude to the Simon Commission. The nationalist section led by Jinnah and Saifuddin Kitchlew met in Calcutta and denounced the commission; the pro- The Sindh Story; Copyright © www.panhwar.com 107
British section, led by Mohammed Shafi and Iqbal, met in Lahore and welcomed the all-white Simon Commission. Iqbal was a great admirer of Amanullah, the progressive king of Afghanistan. But when the British dethroned Amanullah and enthroned puppet Nadir Khan, Iqbal was all praise for Nadir too! The Sheriff of Mecca was a nationalist. The British replaced him by a pliable Saud as the keeper of Islam’s holies. This gentleman in his Wahabi fundamentalism, demolished many ancient tombs, including those of Mohammed’s family members. Muslims all over the world were shocked. But Iqbal hailed Saud as “the best ruler in Asia”. When Bhopal sanctioned Iqbal a monthly allowance of 500 rupees, the Nawab became “the star of Islam”. Nehru had refused to meet Mussolini; Iqbal not only met him but announced that Islam tallied with fascism. Iqbal himself admitted that he had come out in support of Pakistan because “Lord Lothian, Under Secretary of State for India, assured me that India would be partitioned.” For all these reasons, the Sindhis reject Iqbal. When, therefore, Pakistan observed Iqbal Centenary, Sindh countered it by celebrating the anniversary of its poet-saint Latif in every nook and corner of the province. The Sindhis point out that Sindh is bigger than Belgium Denmark and Switzerland, all put together. Sindh takes pride in its heritage from mooanjo-daro to Dahir to Dodo Soomro to Allah Bux --- something tabooed by the establishment in Pakistan. Sindh wonders why it cannot glorify its pre-Islamic heritage, when Firdausi, the national poet of Iran, had glorified ancient Iranian heroes and ridiculed the Arabs as barbarians. Pakistan celebrated the 2,500th anniversary of the pre-Islamic Cyrus of Iran for a whole week; why does it not celebrate Maharaja Dahir Sen, the pre-Islamic hero of Sindh? Dance and music are natural to a normal man. The one and only statuette unearthed at Mooanjo-daro is that of a dancing girl. Syed thinks that even Kathakali and Manipuri dances originated in Sindh. It is stupid, he says, to reject dancing as In-Islamic. For centuries, Muslim spiritual seekers in Sindh went with Yogis and Avadhoots on pilgrimage to Porbandar and Hinglaj. They were interested in truth and self- The Sindh Story; Copyright © www.panhwar.com 108
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Appendix: G M Syed’s Visit .. ..
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Preface to Reprint “The Sindh Sto
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My grateful thanks are due to Prof.
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information. In this connection I m
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Mr. Malkani’s book is a book of h
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--- “Employment of appropriate ph
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effort had been made to synthesise
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Long have we suffered; see how grie
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Sindhu is Divine IN THE BEGINNING w
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Interestingly enough, the Bhagvad G
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Sindhu Mata THE VEDAS and the Puran
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to Encyclopedia Britannica, “the
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no lime in the area to use as cemen
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Alexander’s Waterloo in Sindh EVE
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The philosophers in turn posed him
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Truth about Dahir Sen THE PROPHET o
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next 80 years, led by Hakam, Abdull
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army of Islam became irresolute and
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order to meet the financial deficie
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priest would not agree to Sita beco
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“Jhoolay Lal” WHEN Mahmud Ghazn
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of the Khaljis. But more revealing
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The Umar Marui is one long paean of
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OH LORD of Sindh, Jhoolay Lal, and
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Napier had written off all the pre-
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loosely knit system that could be a
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Dayaram helped set up the Nari Shal
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Page 60 and 61: muttered “lainat! lainat!” in r
Page 62 and 63: to convert them to Christianity. An
Page 64 and 65: anybody else. Colonel Trevor, the C
Page 66 and 67: The theosophists also joined hands
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Page 70 and 71: Freedom Movement in Sindh “NADIR
Page 72 and 73: When Tilak visited Sindh in 1920, y
Page 74 and 75: of 40 women satyagrahis. Many young
Page 76 and 77: Ahmedabad municipality and Subhas C
Page 78 and 79: “I am a Sindh” -- Gandhi “EVE
Page 80 and 81: consider him a Mahatma. He used to
Page 82 and 83: On one occasion not only was a saty
Page 84 and 85: not anti-Muslim. I decline to think
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Page 90 and 91: Thrown to the Wolves INDIA BECAME F
Page 92 and 93: sessions judge of Hyderabad, an Eng
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Page 96 and 97: esolution. “He just allowed us to
Page 98 and 99: from 30 to 400. During this one Lea
Page 100 and 101: Nehru declined the offer --- even a
Page 102 and 103: In January, 1948, Government of Ind
Page 104 and 105: The Sindhi leaders in their goodnes
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Page 114 and 115: Baluchi guerrillas and 3,300 Pakist
Page 116 and 117: It will thus be seen that the democ
Page 118 and 119: G. M. Syed Or Sindh has said that a
Page 120 and 121: Sindhi Society and Culture SlNDHI S
Page 122 and 123: Cardinal Wolsey, was murdered in th
Page 124 and 125: Panhwar, Malah, Mangta, Sodha, Dhat
Page 126 and 127: And Muslim backwardness in the fiel
Page 128 and 129: malicious, Sir Bhutto’s wife, who
Page 130 and 131: Muslims believed that marriages sol
Page 132 and 133: Shah, Sachal and Swami LANGUAGE AND
Page 134 and 135: Sindhian ra istalah Sindh madah; Hi
Page 136 and 137: you want to be a yogi, follow the g
Page 138 and 139: Mohammed Khan Sewhani, Bherumal Meh
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Page 142 and 143: Individual Sindhis have also made a
Page 144 and 145: just dubhashis, bilingual; they are
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Page 148 and 149: The Bar Association of the Supreme
Page 150 and 151: Q. Why are you more opposed to Bhut
Page 152 and 153: (English) Bibliography Ahmed Q.: Th
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