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priest would not agree to Sita becoming Muslim. At last Hind took the two to Saniyya (now Sann, the native village of the prominent Sindh leader G.M.Syed). There they were married while keeping their respective religions. When Sita died, Asim immolated himself on her funeral pyre! But otherwise the relations between the Sindhis and the Arabs were none too good. In Sindh, the Arabs lived in isolated colonies, particularly in Mansurah, the twin-city of Brahmanabad, while the people went their own way under the local chiefs. The Sindhis viewed the iniquities of Baghdad with horror. To this day, in the Sindhi language, “Baghdad” means the “limit of tyranny”. Mahmud Ghazni’s invasion of Sindh put an end to the rump of the Arab governors of Sindh, and thereby helped the local Rajput dynasty of the Soomras to came up. Today there is no trace of the 300-year-long Arab adventure in India. The twincities of Brahmanabad and Mansurah, now known only as Brahmanabad, were so completely destroyed that according to Richardson, archaeologist, “even twenty barrels of gunpowder under each house would not destroy it so completely.” As for Arab influence on Sindhi character, Dr. Pathan is quite sarcastic. He writes in the year of grace, 1978: “A Sindhi is an embodiment of Arab mentality. Arrogant in leisure time, he is equally timid and cannot withstand force. Like an Arab, he takes pleasure in having as many wives as he can and maintains sexual relations with a number of women called surets (concubines). Like the Ghazwah practice of the Arabs, women are stolen away.... Woman, therefore, is the root cause of crime and bloodshed in Sindh”. He adds: “In psychological traits, a Sindhi is a brother of an Arab, being vindictive and full of deceit at all times. Like a true Arab, he is a cunning hypocrite and matchless intriguer.” Dr. Pathan even goes so far as to say that “Quraishi” --- the family name of Mohammed --- in Arabic means “a sea monster”, “a profiteer”. Professor Humayun Kabir had said that while the Government of India supported the Arabs against the Israelis, the people of India favoured the Israelis against the Arabs. The reason, he said, was the Arab invasion of Sindh twelve hundred years ago. He was quite right. The race memory has neither forgotten nor forgiven the Arab invasion. Even the Sindhi Muslims share this Indian resentment of the Arab aggression of long ago. Today they honour “Dahir Son of Sindhudesh” --- and look upon Mohammed Bin Qasim as an invader. G.M. Syed, the “Grand Old Man” of Sindh, and the moving spirit behind the “Independent Sindh” movement, is ecstatic about the bravery and statesmanship of Dahir. According to him, Dahir had even offered asylum to Hussain, the grandson of Mohammed --- married to a Sindhi girl --- who was being persecuted at home. He was on his way to Sindh when he was intercepted at The Sindh Story; Copyright © www.panhwar.com 41
Karbala in Iraq --- and killed most cruelly. The Sindhis weep for lmam Hussain -- - and they weep for Raja Dahir Sen. The Sindh Story; Copyright © www.panhwar.com 42
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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 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 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
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
Page 86 and 87: wrote to Sucheta in 1945 to ask Kri
Page 88 and 89: able to admit of inter-migration, s
Page 90 and 91: 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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