Thursday, 18 August 2016

HISTORY (19th August)


SINDH IN HISTORY TODAY (19th AUGUST)
19th August
 BIRTH DATES
Umed Ali Shah (Sukkur/Politician/1920) ‘Mail’ Sarwari (Poet/1937),
Dr.Umar Memon (Deplo/Writer/1954),
 Fatih Muhammad Dahri (sandan/Journalist/1956),
 ‘Azad’ Hubdar Ali (Sita/Poet/1977),
Anwar Jarwar (Khan Wah/Poet/1981) 

DEATH DATES
  Pir Mazharuddin Shah Rashdi (Tullah/Religious Scholar/1900),
Ghulam Ali ‘Masroor’ (Shikarpur/Poet/1953),
 Lekhraj ‘Aziz’ (Hyderabad > India/Poet/1971),
 Makhdoom Abdul Hai (Rahro/Religious Scholar/1975)

EVENTS

      1843: Mir Sobdar Khan’s petition is forwarded to the Governor-General of India by the Bombay Government. In his petition, Mir has said that ‘with all my property, goods and things came into the plunder of the English Sahibs’. (Source: ‘Correspondence related to Sindh’.)
1857: Upper class of Sindh is pleased by various means so as to make them more loyal. That is why the Collector of Shikarpur disposed of the building with Zamindari rights of compound wall and garden for Rs.625, except the portion occupied by the Deputy Collector. (Source:Letter No.2694).
1945: The All-India Committee of Hindu Maha Sabha concludes its session in New Delhi after adopting their political resolution declaring the Constituent Assembly based on separate electorates was unacceptable. (Source: The Indian Annual Register,Vol-11, 1945).
1946: R.K.Sidhwa, Secretary of the Sindh Coalition Assembly Party and a Parsi Congress leader, in a statement refuted the suggestion which Mr. Jinnah made in his recent statement replying to Pandit Nehru, ‘that the Parsi organization is certainly not with the Congress’. (Source: The Indian Annual Register, Vol-11, 1946).


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