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Preface to Reprint “The Sindh Story” was first published in 1984. Within months the book was sold out. Sheikh Ayaz, the leading poet and intellectual of Sindh, said “It is a book which should find a place in every Sindhi home.” Soon after, Taj Joyo (Kandiaro Sindh), rendered the book in Sindhi and published it in Pakistan under the title ‘Sindh Kahani’. More recently Mani Shankar Aiyar, well-known columnist, wrote: “It is a scholarly book, a fun book, a passionate book, a nostalgia book...” Meanwhile Gul Agha of the Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois, Urbana, USA, put the book on Internet. However, what convinced me more than anything else about the need to reprint the book was a letter from a young man, Aziz Kaleiri (Matiari Sugar Mills, Matiari, Hyderabad Sindh) who had read the book in Sindhi. This letter in Sindhi, received by me on Jan. 11, 1994, moved me to my depths. It said: “Sir, I was born in 1966. i was not witness to the gross injustice done to you (Hindus) and to Sindh at the time of Partition. But when I read the accounts of those times and see the edifices left behind by you, I cannot help crying. When I ponder over your forced migration from Sindh, I feel that Sindh today lives only a fragmented, fractured existence. For long I have been wanting to correspond with a Sindhi in India so that I can re-integrate my splintered self. And recently I had the opportunity to read the Sindhi translation of your book ‘The Sindh Story’. This book carried your address. “I am bewildered. Many times I wake up in the morning with sobs. I have read the travelogues of Imdad Ali Serai and Mahatab Mahboob and their talks with Sindhi brethren in Hindustan. From these I have learnt of your great love for, and attachment to, the land of Sindh. I have recalled all that with tears. There is no sorrow, and no deprivation, as serious as the loss of ones own land of birth. “I am sorry that Prof. Ram Punjwani, Master Chander and Mohan Kalpana left this world with the sorrow of Sindh in their hearts. I am reminded of what Sheikh Ayaz said on the passing of Narayan Shyam. ‘Your sorrow was swept to the sea by the waters of Ganga while the Sindhu threw its arms about in vain.’ “Hope seems to be fading that: ‘Things will change; it will rain again, and the days of separation will be over.’ “Sir, I belong to Kandiaro in Sahiti region which also has the holy town of Halani. Here, even now, the harvest season is marked by Vaisakhi Mela. But I feel- “The The Sindh Story; Copyright © www.panhwar.com 5
cotton trees don’t have their old blossoms; the spinners are gone; the sight of empty shops only fills me with a deep sadness. “ “I am a broken splinter of your own life, Aziz Kaleiri.” My reply of January 13, 1994 to Aziz read: “Your undated letter to hand. It had the sweet smell of Sindh in it. Thanks. Perhaps what happened, had to happen. As the Poet puts it ‘The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, moves on.’ “For our Muslim brethren, the demand of Pakistan was like the proverbial ‘Delhi ka ladoo’: you regret it if you eat it; and you regret it if you do not eat it. For us Sindhis, Hindustan was like maternal grandmother’s house (Nani-a jo ghar). “As I see it, Hindus, Muslims and others, whether in Hindustan, Pakistan or Bangladesh, are all one. We are three states but, from Khyber Pass to Kanya Kumari, we are One People. “This whole area is like a Jhoola in which we play a great deal and, at times, quarrel a good deal. May God’s grace help us stop our quarrelling and live in peace. For as Shah Saheb has said: ‘Separation re-unites us even more warmly, than just being together’. And as Shah Saheb has also said: ‘Don’t give up hope; God is great in His mercy’. “May Sindhu Darya flow full. May everybody be happy. ‘May the Lord bring rains and abundance to Sindh. (Saaein Sadaein Karein Mathay Sindh Sukar). “ I never heard from Aziz. Obviously because he never got my letter. Such is the Iron Curtain between India and Pakistan. I only hope that a letter from an Indian M.P. did not get dear Aziz into any trouble with the authorities. But books are the voice of the people. They can by-pass this curtain. It is, therefore, a matter of great satisfaction that Sindhi Academy, Delhi, has decided to reprint the book. It was, not found necessary to revise the book because the historical part is history and ‘The Sindhi Revival’ after Partition has beautifully maintained its tempo. The only addition-apart from this Preface-is the Appendix, which is a report on Mr. G.M. Syed’s memorable visit to India in 1987. It will be read with the greatest interest. When that Grand Old Man of Sindhudesh passed away, tributes were paid to his heroic memory in the Rajya Sabha (April 26, 1995) not only by the undersigned (BJP) but also by Mohammed Salim (CPI-M) and Syed Sibte Razi and S.S. Ahluwalia (Congress). The Sindh Story; Copyright © www.panhwar.com 6
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Page 36 and 37: next 80 years, led by Hakam, Abdull
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Dayaram helped set up the Nari Shal
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when Gandhiji wrote his autobiograp
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muttered “lainat! lainat!” in r
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to convert them to Christianity. An
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anybody else. Colonel Trevor, the C
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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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