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Long have we suffered; see how grief’s blood flows down the drain. From a heart pierced by the scalpel, hear his cry of pain. The thought of converting Hindus to Islam never entered the mind of Shah and Sachal.” Iqbal’s Jawabi-Shikwa (God’s Response to the Complaint): “There is loud talk that Muslims have disappeared from the earth’s face. We ask you; did true Muslims exist anywhere in any place? Your style of living is Christian, your culture that of the Hindu; A Jew would be ashamed if he saw Muslims such as you. You are Saiyyads as well as Mirzas, and you are Afghans --- You are all these but tell us are you also Musalmans?” The imperative of religious synthesis intimately connected with lslam’s attitude towards minorities in an Islamic State. If the Islamic State is, by definition, an ideological State and the ideology is wholly Muslim, it is manifest that minorities can never be treated equally and justly. What has happened to the Ahmediyas in Pakistan, Bahai’s in Iran and to a lesser extent, the Copts in Egypt, is not a very heartening experience or experiment. If Muslim States treat their minorities in this manner can they easily forget that a quarter of the world’s 750 hundred million Muslims are minorities in non-Muslim countries? Sheer self-interest --- quid pro quo --- would indicate that unless the Islamic states are willing to mete out complete equality before the law and equal justice in every sense of the word to non-Muslims, they cannot expect similar treatment for Muslim minorities in non-Muslim States. This is not to suggest that the Muslim minority in India should be held as a hostage to guarantee good conduct of Muslim governments the world over. But, ugly reactions to what happens to non-Muslim minorities elsewhere are not easily avoidable, particularly when it is not strongly disapproved and condemned by the minorities in India. The lesson of recent historical events might well induce some sober and responsible thinking amongst the fanatics. The Arab heart-land of Islam suffered a crushing military defeat in the 1967 War with Israel --- a humiliation that was felt personally not only in Egypt, Jordan and Syria, the actual combatants, but, by all Muslim States, Arab as well as non-Arab. Then, in 1972, the largest Muslim State, Pakistan, broke up into two. The hatred, bitterness, mass-suffering and the The Sindh Story; Copyright © www.panhwar.com 17
War could not be prevented by the bond of Islam. The pulls of regionalism proved stronger Economic forces overwhelmed the religious. Lastly, a protracted and a senseless War has been going on between Khomeini’s Iran and Sadam’s Iraq. By now, the combatants have forgotten what they are fighting about, but, they are still killing one another, and the flower of youth in both the countries is being literally decimated to satisfy the ego of two mad men, both Muslims and fundamentalist Muslims, at that. The lesson is loud and clear. Islam itself can flourish only in peaceful co- existence and by rounding of its sharp angularities without compromise or loss of its essence. Let the Sindhis provide a model to work upon and improve. Judge Holmes of the United States while on a local train, was once asked by the attendant to show his ticket. The Judge fumbled in his pockets and could not find it, while the attendant who recognised the Judge, said it was nothing to bother about. Holmes turned to him and said: “No, young man, I must find the ticket, for I have forgotten where I am going.” I too seem to have forgotten that this is only a Foreword. It must now end with an apology to the readers and gratitude to the author of this interesting work. Bombay Ram Jethmalani 30th August 1984 Member of Parliament The Sindh Story; Copyright © www.panhwar.com 18
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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 10 and 11: information. In this connection I m
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 20 and 21: Sindhu is Divine IN THE BEGINNING w
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
Page 50 and 51: OH LORD of Sindh, Jhoolay Lal, and
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
Page 58 and 59: when Gandhiji wrote his autobiograp
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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“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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