Day 46 of '75 Days of Partition' - The Sindhi Refugee Experience

[@asifjamshaid8621]

Apart from of the many reasons highlighted by the worthy speaker regarding less violence and the brutality as experienced in Sindh was that primarily the exodus of Hindus here was one way, unlike like Punjab where it was two way- people were leaving and from the other side they were being replaced by fleeing lot, this could have been the reason for far less violence. I agree the “Sufi” indoctrination in Sindh could have been another big reason. Thank you Sonam and Saaz for putting up a really fantastic presentation.

[@1947PartitionArchive]

Thank you for sharing and joining us.

[@vivekmahtani8108]

Second that, thank you Sonam and Saaz!

[@gitithadani]

I come from an amil sindhi family & tried to learn sindhi as an adult but the script was already lost. It is the only language that does not have its own indian script & does not have acoustic-visual concordance so even though I learnt the arabic script I could not know the vowels & the acoustic base. I instead learnt sanskrit & hungarian & several other languages. In a way the sindhi language had already been colonized by centuries of islamic invasions. My father never spoke about his time there - my aunt told me in her last conversations that though they were already in Agra at that time - they had to go in hiding because they were living in a muslim dominated area. She did not tell these stories to her own daughters. There was nothing to return too. So everything had to be reformatted. A lost language was to be replaced by multi-lingual - multi cultural. A lost civilization was to be overcome by an acute awareness of civilizational depth. Lastly please spare me this sufi rubbish - it adds salts to the terrible wounds & the betrayal of sindhus at many levels