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The Case of Sindh; G M Syed ABOUT THE AUTHOR Ghulam Murtaza Shah Syed (G.M. Syed) son of Syed Mohammad Shah Kazmi, descendant of a famous saint of Sindh, Syed Haider Shah Kazmi, of whose mausoleum he is the Sajjada-nashin. He was born at the village Sann in Dadu District, Sindh, on January 17, 1904. His father passed away when he was only sixteen months old. He has had no formal schooling. Whatever he learnt, was self-tutored. By dint of hard work, he attained mastery over Sindhi and English languages. He is also conversant with Arabic and Persian languages. History, Philosophy and Political science are his favourite subjects of study. At an early age of fourteen years, he started his career as a politician. In 1919 he became Chairman of School Board of his own Tehsil. Subsequently, he was elected Vice President of Karachi District Local Board. In 1929, he became its President. In 1930, he organized Sindh Hari (peasents) Conference and became its Secretary. In 1937, he was for the first time elected a member of Sindh Legislative Assembly. In 1938, he joined the All-India Muslim League. In 1940, he became Minister of Education in Sindh. In 1941, he became one of the members of the Central Committee of the Muslim League. In 1943, he became President of Sindh Muslim League. In 1944, he played a pivotal role in politics and got a resolution passed in the Sindh Assembly in favour of Pakistan, which was the pioneer resolution of its kind in the whole of undivided India. The Case of Sindh; Copyright © www.panhwar.com 1 In 1946, conditions compelled him to dissociate from the Muslim League, and formed a new party named Progressive Muslim League. The same year he was elected as leader of the Coalition Party in the Sindh Assembly. In 1954, he acted as Chairman of Sindhi Adabi Board. In 1955, he played an active part in the formation of Pakistan National Party. In 1966, he founded Bazm-e-Soofia-e Sindh. In 1969, he formed Sindh United Front. Getting disappointed from All- Pakistan national politics, he founded in 1973 the “Jiy-e-Sindh” movement. Mr. Syed is the author of more than sixty books. His books are on numerous subjects, ranging from literature to politics, religion and culture etc. Himself a mystic, has a lot of love and regard for mystics of all faiths. Besides being a man of immense learning, Mr. Syed possesses a personality which is graceful and poised. Highly cultured and refined in manners, hospitality and geniality are the two glaring traits of his character. Wit and humour are the key-notes of his personality. He respects all genuine difference of opinion. For decades, Sindh and Sindhi people have constituted the centre of his interest and activity, and all his love and all his energy are devoted to their good. Mr. G.M. Syed is father of “JIY-E-SINDH” Movement aimed at achieving SINDHU DESH. For his bold expression of opinion and views after the creation of Pakistan, he was kept either in jail or in solitary confinement for the period of more than 30 years. He passed away on April 25, 1995. The Case of Sindh; Copyright © www.panhwar.com 2 The Case of Sindh - G.M. Syed’s deposition in court Your Honor! For three-quarters of a century now, I have struggled for the emancipation of my oppressed people who live in these parts of South Asia. All this while, I have earned the ire of rulers who have usurped power. On numerous occasions I have been under house arrest or in jail during the best years of my life. Whenever I have tried to raise my voice against the vandalization of Sindh, my Motherland, I have been jailed. Several attempts have been made on my life. I have never once been allowed to state my case in any court of law and to speak on the subjugation of my people. This is the first time that I have been given an opportunity to speak on my land’s laments. I wish to tell this court and through it to all humanity, especially the thinking people who are living in the closing years of the 20th century, the atrocities that have been committed against my Motherland, Sindh, by ruthless occupying nations. I want to do so also in order to tell my people, its intellectuals, how a nation which has given the lead to all peoples of the world in the fields of art and culture is now being brutalized and held captive by force and fraud. There are people in this land who are under the influence of migrant feudalistic from India, and are proudly touting subjugation as the panacea for Sindh’s problems. Among our many misfortunes is the fact that some of our compatriots hate independence and love enslavement. At this juncture, representing the spirit of Sindh, I repudiate these elements. If I don’t do so, I shall be considered to have violated the sanctity of the spirit of independence for Sindh. I wish to state here, Your Honor, that Sindh is a distinct geographic entity where there are rivers, forests, lakes, mountains, deserts and verdant valleys. Through the ages it has been expanding and contracting. It has been independent and enslaved during various stages of its history but, at the same time, it has always had a pure and proud soul that has never accepted slavery or indignity. It has never surrendered to death despite the fact that attempts have been made to bond or break it. This spirit has flitted around Sindh like monsoon clouds as the The Case of Sindh; Copyright © www.panhwar.com 3 last voice of the Dravidians of Mohen-jo-Daro. It has emerged from time to time sometimes in the shape of Raja Dahir, sometimes in the person of Dodo Soomro, sometimes in the shape of Darya Khan and Makhdoom Bilawal and Shah Hyder Sannai. It has expressed itself in the love and courage of Shah Inayat, I feel that these historic persons of Sindh have become part and parcel of my being which would like to reach a logical end now. Without doubt, it is Sindh’s geographic, national, political, economic, cultural and moral beauty which is the ingredients of its independence. It is this throbbing spirit which has forced me since early childhood to strive for the emancipation of Sindh and its people. Whatever shape my political struggle has taken in South Asia, it has had but one focal point- “independence for Sindh”. All that which I will now state about my political endeavors should be seen in the light of the submissions I have just made. Your Honor! I completed my early education in Sindhi in 1915 when the First World War was at its peak. When I took to studying English and Persian, I began to see the world in a new light. I came to realize that the world was facing four major problems - poverty, illiteracy, lawlessness and fear Philosophers, intellectuals and men of wisdom have been trying to solve these problems down the ages. When pondered over these problems, I came to realize that they were rooted in these factors: Colonialism, feudalism and capitalism caused poverty; Nomadic life and lack of civic and educational facilities together with high cost of education caused illiteracy; And the bloody and barbaric World War on the international level and disorderly life, superstition and blind faith together with threats from wild animals, thieves and marauding raiders at the local levels produced fear and lawlessness. As I have said, this was the time when the First World War was at its height. Human life had become cheaper than animal life and thousands of innocent people were being killed. In war, the brave man is he who has killed more people than the others. We, the people of Sindh, had by that time been forcibly made part of British India and had become slaves of the British. The Indians were used as gun fodder. The British had made several promises to the people of the sub-continent in return for their cooperation in the war effort. Among these, the most important pledge was that all British colonies, including India, would be freed. The Muslims were assured that despite the fact that Britain was at war with Turkey, their holy places would not be desecrated and the Muslim lands would be set free. The First World War ended in 1918. Small nations in Europe got their The Case of Sindh; Copyright © www.panhwar.com 4 independence but not so in Asia and Africa. On the contrary, through new divisions and treaties, they were put under a stronger and sterner colonial rule. When the Indian Muslims who were even more specially under the influence of religion came to know that the Turkish Empire was being cut into pieces and that the countries under it would be divided among the British, the Greek and tie French and that the holy places would be placed under Allied control and that India would not be set free, they were gravely Perturbed, Generally also, a wave of protest against British imperialism swept across India. The Muslims launched the Khilafat Movement to express solidarity with Turkey. The All-India Congress, which had hitherto done little except Passing resolutions or presenting memoranda (to the British), became an active political party after Mahatma Gandhi’s return from South Africa. He used the public sentiment against the Raj to telling effect by forging Hindu Muslim unity. Sensing that this unity would be dangerous for their interests, the British, instead of introducing further reforms, clamped the Rowlatt Act on India under which the emergency powers which the government had assumed during the First World War were perpetuated.
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