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of 40 women satyagrahis. Many young satyagrahis have been made to break stones. Twelve of them have been flogged with a dozen stripes each.” The 1930 movement ended in the Gandhi-Irwin Pact, which was followed by the Karachi session of the Congress in March 1931. It was organized in a grand manner --- on a budget of only 90,000 rupees --- and in the course of just three weeks. Mahadev Desai grew ecstatic over “the canopy of heaven under which the Congress is meeting for the first time in its history”. Gandhiji was “thankful that the Reception Committee has rent it (shamiana-top) as under and put us into direct communion with God”. Built on the Takri (hillock), which now sports Jinnah’s mausoleum, it was mainly organized by Jamshed Mehta, the Mayor of Karachi, and Chairman of the Reception Committee. However, the historic Congress session was clouded by two tragedies. The British hanged Sardar Bhagat Singh and his colleagues Sukhdev and Rajguru on the eve of the session --- despite Gandhiji’s best efforts to save their lives --- just to make their imperial existence felt. And when Muslims in Kanpur refused to close their shops in honour of Bhagat Singh, violence ensued. Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi, PCC President of the United Provinces, and editor of the Pratap, who went to quell the rioting, lost his life in the heroic effort. Gandhiji was greeted with black flags and black cloth flowers and “Go Back” slogans at every station on his way to Karachi. He actually detrained at Drigh Road, to avoid an angry crowd in Karachi proper. Gandhiji said that he would keep the black flags as an “heirloom” --- unless the demonstrators realized their mistake and asked for their return. But he begged of them not to disturb the Congress session and “not to mar the wonderful work by the workers of Sindh”. After that the Karachi session of the Congress passed off peacefully. A highlight of this session was the first-time participation of the Frontier Red Shirts led by Khan Abdul Ghaffar. The Karachi session was presided over by the redoubtable Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel. It was here that the Congress decided to participate in the Second Round Table Conference. The session also adopted a 20-point resolution on Fundamental Rights, promising universal adult franchise, free primary education, a living wage fore all in free India. This session also had an interesting interlude when Maulana Zafar Ali, editor of the Zamindar of Lahore, insisted that the Congress adjourn for namaz. Gandhiji refused --- conceding only that the Congress could conduct less important business during namaz time. An infuriated Maulana walked straight out to the station, where he caught the first train to Lahore. The Sindh Story; Copyright © www.panhwar.com 73
Before and after the 1930-32 movement, the Congress was popular enough to pit a Mochi (cobbler) againsta Mukhi --- and get him elected. In the 1937 elections, the Congress had 7 MLAs in a house of 60, enough to become a balancing factor. The 1942 movement went better in Sindh than in the Punjab and in many other provinces. It took two young valuable lives --- Hemu Kalani, caught removing rails, and Nirmal Jivtani, poet, who was flogged, and who died soon after. Prime Minister Allah Bux Soomro was so close to the Congress that he used to carry Khadi on his shoulder and hawk it from door to door. During the “Quit India” movement he offered to requisition a bungalow on Clifton --- Karachi’s beautiful beach --- if enough women offered satyagraha. It was this proximity to the Congress that earned him his dismissal, followed, shortly after, by his mysterious murder. Sindh never recovered from that tragedy; and it paved the way for partition --- even though the Congress bagged 22 seats in the 1946 elections. Such in brief was the course of the freedom movement in Sindh. Its leaders, qualitatively, were among the best in the country. Kripalani (1888--1982), the best known of them, first saw Gandhiji in Santiniketan, and was hooked to him for life. He put life in Charkha Sangha and worked longest as General Secretary of the Congress. Here was a remarkable case of front- rank leadership for sixty historic years. Jairamdas Daulatram Alimchandani (1891 --- 1978), scholar- turned-fiery-patriot, was the most Gandhian of the Congressmen of Sindh. For some time he worked as editor of The Hindustan Times and later as General Secretary of the Congress. After Independence, Jairamdas became Governor of Bihar, Union Food Minister, Governor of Assam and editor of Complete Works of Gandhi. Dr. Choithram (1889--1957) was a life-long public worker, who started to serve the country before the Congress was even heard of. Starting with partition of Bengal, he continued to serve the country after the partition of India. On the eve of Partition, he even organized a training camp in Chittor Fort for 40 young men --- with the help of the Maharana of Udaipur --- to help defend people in Sindh. It was he who got a reluctant Jawaharlal Nehru to agree to compensate the refugees for their property losses. Way back in 1’i24, Gandhiji wrote about him in the Young India: “Dr. Choithram has sacrificed everything and turned into a faqir, all for the cause of his country.” Acharya A.T. Gidvani (1890--1935) resigned his cushy job as principal of Ramjas College of Delhi, to work with Gandhiji on one-fifth his old emoluments. When the Congress decided to induct top leaders in public offices and Pandit Nehru became chairman of Allahabad municipality and Sardar Patel chairman of The Sindh Story; Copyright © www.panhwar.com 74
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Preface to Reprint “The Sindh Sto
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information. In this connection I m
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Mr. Malkani’s book is a book of h
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--- “Employment of appropriate ph
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effort had been made to synthesise
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Long have we suffered; see how grie
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Sindhu is Divine IN THE BEGINNING w
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Interestingly enough, the Bhagvad G
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Page 28 and 29: no lime in the area to use as cemen
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Page 32 and 33: The philosophers in turn posed him
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Page 36 and 37: next 80 years, led by Hakam, Abdull
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Page 40 and 41: order to meet the financial deficie
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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
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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
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Page 90 and 91: Thrown to the Wolves INDIA BECAME F
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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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Page 108 and 109: and destiny. In the process it has
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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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