The Amils Of Sindh

Author : Saaz Aggarwal
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 732 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : India
ISBN : 9383465085

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The Amils of Sindh by Saaz Aggarwal Pdf

"The Amils of Sindh originated in a small group of families who migrated to Sindh through the seventeenth century, driven from neighbouring provinces by economic need, political forces and natural disasters. Through the centuries, the defining quality of the Amils was their commitment to education. They used their education to build careers for themselves, to lead comfortable lives and to create wealth for their families. As an elite layer of society, the Amils were inspiring role models and created a fervour of enthusiasm for education among the middle class in Sindh. The Partition of India and their subsequent dispersal cost them dearly, but they focussed on adapting with dignity to new lives in new places. This book honours the silent sacrifices of the generation that left so much behind. It provides the context for present and future generations to identify themselves with pride in family grids to which they belong"--Back cover.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9383465212

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Sindhi Tapestry by Anonim Pdf

Author : Michel Boivin
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2020-06-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030419912

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The Sufi Paradigm and the Makings of a Vernacular Knowledge in Colonial India by Michel Boivin Pdf

This book demonstrates how a local elite built upon colonial knowledge to produce a vernacular knowledge that maintained the older legacy of a pluralistic Sufism. As the British reprinted a Sufi work, Shah Abd al-Latif Bhittai's Shah jo risalo, in an effort to teach British officers Sindhi, the local intelligentsia, particularly driven by a Hindu caste of professional scribes (the Amils), seized on the moment to promote a transformation from traditional and popular Sufism (the tasawuf) to a Sufi culture (Sufiyani saqafat). Using modern tools, such as the printing press, and borrowing European vocabulary and ideology, such as Theosophical Society, the intelligentsia used Sufism as an idiomatic matrix that functioned to incorporate difference and a multitude of devotional traditions—Sufi, non-Sufi, and non-Muslim—into a complex, metaphysical spirituality that transcended the nation-state and filled the intellectual, spiritual, and emotional voids of postmodernity.

Author : Michel Boivin
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2024-03-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004695290

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Devotion, Religious Authority, and Social Structures in Sindh by Michel Boivin Pdf

In a context of rigidification of religious boundaries, especially between Hinduism and Islam, the book argues that many physical and non-physical sites of religious encountering are still at work, both in Pakistan and in India. In India, the Hindu Sindhis worshipped a god, Jhulelal, who is also venerated in Pakistan as a saint. In Sehwan Sharif, in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, there are Hindu Sufi masters who initiate Muslims to Sufism. This study is the first to involve both Muslim and Hindu communities in a comparative perspective, and to underscore that the process of constructing communities in South Asia follow the same social pattern, the patrilineal lineage (baradari or khandan). The study is based on an array of sources collected in three continents, such as manuscripts, printed and oral sources, as well as artefacts from material cultures, most of which was never published before.

Author : Michel Boivin,Matthew A. Cook,Julien Levesque
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0199407800

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Discovering Sindh's Past by Michel Boivin,Matthew A. Cook,Julien Levesque Pdf

This collection of thirteen articles from the Journal of the Sind Historical Society concentrates on precolonial and colonial Sind. These articles reveal much about Sindh's past and historically showcase the region's broad socio-cultural spectrum. Scholarship frequently overlooks the subjects and people in this collection. In part, this oversight is due to so few libraries (both in Pakistan and around the world) having copies of the Journal of the Sind Historical Society. There are no reprints of these articles in any other book, nor has anyone reprinted them in their entirety since the 1930s and 1940s. The articles in this book not only deepen knowledge about Sindh but also the history of Pakistan and the diversity of its people. They represent, like most research printed in the Journal of the Sind Historical Society, "forgotten" chapters in both Sindhi and Pakistani history. These chapters celebrate Pakistan's socio-cultural diversity and point toward how the histories of region and nation should be intertwined.

Author : Mark-Anthony Falzon
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004140080

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Cosmopolitan Connections by Mark-Anthony Falzon Pdf

This accessible book draws on anthropological fieldwork conducted in a number of sites to explore the relation between mobility, cosmopolitanism, and commerce. It is pioneering in that it looks at Sindhis, a widespread group that has so far been largely ignored by anthopologists.

Author : Dhirendra Narain,University of Bombay. Department of Sociology,Indian Council of Social Science Research
Publisher : Concept Publishing Company
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 8170222354

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Research in Sociology by Dhirendra Narain,University of Bombay. Department of Sociology,Indian Council of Social Science Research Pdf

"Abstracts were prepared under the general supervision of Dr. D. Narain, University of Bombay."

Author : Albert William Hughes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 946 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0026168701

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Gazetteer of the Province of Sindh by Albert William Hughes Pdf

Author : R. Hughes Thomas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1855
Category : Sindh (Pakistan)
ISBN : CORNELL:31924010153975

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Memoirs on Sind by R. Hughes Thomas Pdf

Author : Rita Kothari
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Refugees
ISBN : UOM:39015070142537

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The Burden of Refuge by Rita Kothari Pdf

The Burden Of Refuge Tells The Story Of The Sindhi Hindus Of Gujarat Beginning With Colonial Sindh And Tracing The Socio-Political Dynamics Of The Pre-Partition Days. Through Personal Narratives, Kothari Brings To Life The Story Of Various Sindhis As They Migrate To India And Begin Their Process Of Resettlement. She Delineates The Contexts That Made An Atypical Community Like The Sindhis Re-Modify Themselves To Suit More Textbook Notions Of Gujarati Bourgeois Society. In Their Desire To Assimilate With India (Especially Gujarat), The Sindhis Gained Much, But Also Suffered Many Losses. Though Sindhis Have Risen From The Ashes Of Partition As A Model Immigrant Community, The Sufi Syncreticism That Informed Their Former Life Has Been Tragically Damaged And They Have Also Suffered The Loss Of Their Language. In Gujarat, These Losses Are Accompanied With A Desire To Become Proper Hindus By Adopting A More Monolithic Hindu Identity And By Denying Their Sindhiness . Using Intergenerational Voices And Combining History With Personal Narratives, Kothari S Book Examines The Phenomena Of Psychological Violence During And After Partition, And Explores A Different Facet Of Partition Studies. Going Beyond Partition Studies, This Book Also Makes An Important Contribution To The Area Of Identity Politics In Contemporary India. This Multidisciplinary Study Is Relevant To Everyone Interested In India S Past And Present.

Author : Nandita Bhavnani
Publisher : Tranquebar
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 9384030333

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The Making of Exile by Nandita Bhavnani Pdf

To date, most books on Partition have ignored or minimised the Sindhi Hindu experience, which was significantly different from the trials of minorities in Punjab or Bengal. The Making of Exile hopes to redress this, by turning a spotlight on the specific narratives of the Sindhi Hindu community.Post-Partition, Sindh was relatively free of the inter-communal violence witnessed in Punjab, Bengal, and other parts of north India. Consequently, in the first few months of Pakistan's early life, Sindhi Hindus did not migrate, and remained the most significant minority in West Pakistan.Starting with the announcement of the Partition of India, The Making of Exile firmly traces the experiences of the community - that went from being a small but powerful minority to becoming the target of communal discrimination, practised by both the state as well as sections of Pakistani society. This climate of communal antipathy threw into sharp relief the help and sympathy extended to Sindhi Hindus by other Pakistani Muslims, both Sindhi and muhajir. Finally, it was when they became victims of the Karachi pogrom of January 1948 that Sindhi Hindus felt compelled to migrate to India.The second segment of the book examines the resettlement of the community in India - their first brush with squalid refugee camps, their struggle to make sense of rapidly changing governmental policies, and the spirit of determination and enterprise with which they rehabilitated themselves in their new homeland.

Author : Veera Hiranandani
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2024-01-23
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780525555070

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Amil and the After by Veera Hiranandani Pdf

A hopeful and heartwarming story about finding joy after tragedy, Amil and the After is a companion to the beloved and award-winning Newbery Honor novel The Night Diary, by acclaimed author Veera Hiranandani At the turn of the new year in 1948, Amil and his family are trying to make a home in India, now independent of British rule. Both Muslim and Hindu, twelve-year-old Amil is not sure what home means anymore. The memory of the long and difficult journey from their hometown in what is now Pakistan lives with him. And despite having an apartment in Bombay to live in and a school to attend, life in India feels uncertain. Nisha, his twin sister, suggests that Amil begin to tell his story through drawings meant for their mother, who died when they were just babies. Through Amil, readers witness the unwavering spirit of a young boy trying to make sense of a chaotic world, and find hope for himself and a newly reborn nation.

Author : Matthew A. Cook
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2015-11-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789004293670

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Annexation and the Unhappy Valley by Matthew A. Cook Pdf

Annexation and the Unhappy Valley addresses the expansion and consolidation of British colonial power in the Sindh region of South Asia. The book focuses on colonial direct rule, rather than the more commonly studied indirect rule, of South Asia.

Author : Anila Naeem
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9462981590

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Urban Traditions and Historic Environments in Sindh by Anila Naeem Pdf

Shikarpoor Historic City, in Sindh, Pakistan, has a rich historical heritage: as a central point on caravan trade routes, it served as the gateway to Afghanistan and Central Asia. In recognition of that history, in 1998 the government of Sindh named it a protected heritage site--but that status hasn't prevented the ongoing destruction of the city's historic fabric. This book tells the story of Shikarpoor and presents as complete a picture of its threatened historical fabric as possible, through copious maps and images past and present.

Author : Michel Boivin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781788315319

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The Hindu Sufis of South Asia by Michel Boivin Pdf

Within the complex religious landscape of modern India, the community of Sindh stands out as a powerful example of interfaith relations. This Hindu community moved to India and practiced Sufism following Sindh's inclusion to Pakistan in the 1947 partition. Drawing on a close analysis of literature and poetry, interviews with key informants, and a reading of historic rituals and architectures, Michel Boivin demonstrates that this active religious minority has managed to retain its unique Hindu-Sufi identity amidst the rigidification of official religions in both India and Pakistan. Of particular significance, Boivin argues, was the creation of sacred spaces called darbars. These shrines include a religious building where the Hindu Sindhis worship Sufi saints, chant Sufi poetry and perform Sufi rituals. In looking at this vibrant community as a trans-religious culture capable of navigating the challenges of the modern nation state, this book is an important contribution to understanding the Muslim-Hindu encounter in India.