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no lime in the area to use as cement, the bricks were so made and fitted into each other that no cementing as such was necessary! The whole thing thrilled modern city planners. Said S. S. Townroe, a British housing expert, at the end of World War II: “Buried cities in the Indus Valley at least 5000 years old, when excavated, showed they were well planned and drained. Every large house had a bathroom. The old Vedic treatises afford striking proof of the knowledge and commonsense of the early people of India in regulating their building development and wisdom in their municipal administration. When we think of the great urban civilization in the Indus Valley 5000 years ago, we gain humility in facing the issues of today. From India we can learn both patience and wisdom in dealing with the redevelopment of our bombed-out cities in Europe and North Africa and the Far East in the years to come.” Of the only two figures found, one is that of a dancing girl, and another the bust of a man in orange apparel painted with a floral design. Here was a huge and prosperous port-city with international commerce; but it was so secure and peaceful that no arms were found. The thick wall, which was first believed to be the rampart of a fort, was later found to be a section of a public store-house. Said Sir Mortimer Wheeler, archaeologist: “It served both as a state bank and treasury.” Covered Drains Aldous Huxley, the philosopher, was so impressed by the peaceful character of Mooan-jo-daro that he wrote: “The civilization of the Indus Valley was as rich and elaborate as those of Sumer and Egypt. But it was a civilization that knew nothing of war. No weapons have been found in its buried cities, nor any trace of fortification. This fact is of the highest significance. It proves that it is possible for men to enjoy the advantages of a complex urban civilization without having to pay for them by periodical mass-murders.” And it was unarmed, not because there was nothing to defend in the city. For it was a rich city with international commerce. Indeed Sir John Marshall, then director-general of the archeological department, noted: “The old ornaments are so well finished and so highly polished that they might have come out of a Bond Street jeweller rather than from a prehistoric house of 5000 years ago.” This city needed no arms because it was secure in its own law, order and justice. Here was a fine great city which had no use for arms but which made many toys The Sindh Story; Copyright © www.panhwar.com 27
for its beloved children. Some of these were still whistling and rattling when dug up! Communal Bath At first some westerners tried to prove that this Sindh city had been sacked by “Aryans”. But evidence soon turned up to show that this city itself was as “Aryan” as any site in Bharat- varsh. Here are Shiva Pashupatinath and Kali, the worship of linga and peepal. And in front of the temple, topped by the stupa, is the huge tank for ceremonial bathing by pilgrims. The invasion-destruction theory was further knocked down by anthropologists who found that the Mooanjo-daro people had the same long-headed skulls as the Sindhis of today. Obviously the invaders had been too few to change the native character of Sindh. Next only to the Pyramids and the Great Wall of China, Mooanjo-daro is the greatest man-made wonder of the world. Indeed it is so much alive that “the mound of the dead” is quite a misnomer for it. Until we decipher its script and find out its original name, a more appropriate appellation for it would be “Amar Sindh Daro” (the “Mound of Immortal Sindh”). It is the most sacred spot in Sindh. Here is a place of pilgrimage for all mankind. The Sindh Story; Copyright © www.panhwar.com 28
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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 18 and 19: Long have we suffered; see how grie
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 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
Page 68 and 69: “Sangathan”, and “Sanskriti
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
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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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