The exit of Hindus helped them become debt free overnight. Ghazanfar Hidayatullah, grandson of the first governor of Sindh, Sir Ghulam Hussain Hidayatullah, told this scribe many years ago Sindhi feudal lords played a key role in the 1947 Partition Holocaust as they were heavy in debt to Hindu money lenders most of their landholding were mortgaged to the money lenders. Today the Hindu population is barely eight percent of Sindh and their voice muffled in Sindh assembly. Records show that well-educated and highly cultured Sindhi Hindus won one-third of the 60 Sindh legislative assembly seats in three elections held in 1937, 19. Some months after the killing of Bhagat Kanwar Ram, another freedom fighter Hasaram Pamnani, member of the Sindh legislative assembly belonging to the Congress party, was shot dead and his killers were never brought to justice.Īt the time of the Partition Holocaust, Sindhi Hindus were nearly 30 percent of Sindh’s population. His grandfather was also assassinated three and half years later by the very same forces, acting at the behest of the British Raj. “He understood religion will be used to make one man fight another,” Javed Qazi adds.ĭr Amir Soomro, grandson of legendary Allah Bux Soomro, organized a concert of Sufi music to pay tribute to Bhagat Kanwar Ram at the site of the dastardly killing. “Muslims cried as much as the Hindus,”writes Sindhi lawyer and intellectual Javed Qazi, whose father Qazi Faiz Muhammad was also a lawyer and intellectual and close friend of Bangladesh founder Sheikh Mujibur Rehman. Though he was a Hindu, they rightly remember him as a “shaheed” or martyr for giving his life for a noble cause-Muslim-Hindu unity.īhagat Kanwar Ram, a famed mystic singer of Sindh was killed 82 years ago on November 1, 1939. They gathered at the Ruk railway station, near the once thriving commercial town of Shikarpur, to pay their tributes to the fallen hero. (People paying tribute to Bhagat Kanwar Ram at the Ruk railway station near Shikarpur Monday.
0 kommentar(er)
