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when Gandhiji wrote his autobiography at the instance of Jairamdas he also titled it My Experiments with Truth. Dayaram now came to be known as a Rishi. It was men such as these who made a small province like Sindh great --- and prepared the ground for the cultural revival and the freedom movement in Sindh. The Sindh Story; Copyright © www.panhwar.com 57
From Brahmo Samaj to RSS WHEN the British took over Sindh in 1843, it was little more than sandy expanses on both sides of the river, interspersed with patches of green. Karachi was a small trading town and even Hyderabad, the capital, had housing that was little more than miserable hovels. There were no great monuments. And even the Mirs’ “palaces” had nothing palatial about them. Life was poor and short, even if it was not nasty and brutish. The Sindh of 1947 was a very different affair. It was something that old-timers --- Hindus, Muslims and English alike --- remember with nostalgia. It was “beautiful as a bride”, says Pir Husamuddin Rashdi. This was not the doing of only great individuals. It was the cumulative result of the winds of change that blew in from all directions. Unfortunately the Sindhi Muslims did not get --- or did not take --- any favourable wind. The Muslim-majority separate province of Sindh became a division of the Bombay Presidency, -with its Hindu majority. Bombay officialdom treated Sindh as the Shikargah (hunting ground) during their winter visits. The Wahabi movement with its extreme emphasis on Islamic fundamentalism did not have many takers in eclectic Sindh, which delighted in its Pirs and graves and amulets. Wahabi leader Syed Ahmed Barelvi did come to Sindh; and he did help reorganise the Hurs as a fraternity madly devoted to their Pir in the cause of “Deen”. But the Mirs of Sindh saw that the British were using the Syed to harass the Sikhs in their rear, in what is the North-West Frontier Province today. However, the Wahabi wars with the Sikhs did keep Ranjit Singh too preoccupied to go and capture Shikarpur in Sindh, which had been ceded by Afghanistan to the Sikhs. In the latter half of the nineteenth century, British rule was very popular in India and Lord Ripon, the Viceroy, was particularly popular. In Banaras his carriage was pulled by the Kashi Pandits. All over the country thousands of welcome addresses were being signed by leading citizens to be presented to him. The Sindh Sabha also called a meeting in Karachi in 1881 to send him a memorandum signed by the leaders, appreciating his services. In this meeting Khan Bahadur Hassan Ali Effendi opposed the move and said a simple letter should do. Dayaram flared up and said that it would be a shame (lainat) if Sindh failed to honour Ripon like the rest of the country. An enraged Effendi walked out as he The Sindh Story; Copyright © www.panhwar.com 58
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Appendix: G M Syed’s Visit .. ..
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Preface to Reprint “The Sindh Sto
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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 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
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
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
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Page 102 and 103: In January, 1948, Government of Ind
Page 104 and 105: The Sindhi leaders in their goodnes
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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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