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Lee_14

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Posted: 4 years ago

#731

Originally posted by: nautankitadka

How did they & Vashma travel to Karachi is the biggest doubt, coz it is hella dangerous to go anywhere via road from Lahore in those circumstances
Charter plane/helicopter hai kya aapke paas?
Also apne khud ke bacche ko aise halat me chhodke kaunse parents rafoo chakkar hote hai re? 🤔
Preparations for shaadi toh anyways Lahore mein hi honi hai na? 😳
Raizadas, please go and settle in Bombay or Kutch. Bahut scope hai udhar aapke business ke liye and it is more safer and convenient from Karachi too, Delhi/Amritsar will be too crowded post the tragedy ☯️

bold-Exactly that's what

And Karachi ka fate was almost sure,so where they thinking ki jaha ho,usi country mai rahenge, whether India or Pakistan.

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950842

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Posted: 4 years ago

#732

Originally posted by: Lee_14
bold-Exactly that's what
And Karachi ka fate was almost sure,so where they thinking ki jaha ho,usi country mai rahenge, whether India or Pakistan.

@Bold: Urban elites apparently did not leave before batwaara, and inflow of Mujahirs.

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Bengal and Punjab were officially partitioned along religious lines. Kashmir was subject to a de facto partition, which did not follow the religious divisions of the state. Sindh had a Muslim majority, but several of its eastern sub-districts had a Hindu majority. The only major Sindhi city without a Hindu majority was Karachi, Sindh’s largest city then and now. Karachi had a very narrow Muslim plurality, 47.8 % Muslim to 46.6 % Hindu.

Overall, Sindh was 69.9 % Sindhi-speaking. The two largest linguistic minorities were the Balochi-speakers (7.1 %), Saraiki-speakers (6.2 %), and Rajasthani-speakers (3.2 %). Brahui, Hindi, Punjabi, and Gujarati were all around 2 %. So too were Kutchi, which is considered a dialect of Sindhi. Perhaps unsurprisingly, many more Hindus stayed in Sindh than stayed in Punjab. There are about 3 million Hindus still left in Sindh. Yet, a large number of Hindus left Sindh for India, and their descendants are believed to number 3-4 million people. This flight of Sindh’s urban Hindu elite can be linked with the most important effect of Partition on Sindh – that is the arrival of the Muhajirs from India in 1947.

Source: https://southasiablog.wordpress.com/2014/11/07/why-wasnt-sindh-parititioned-in-1947/

Edited by nautankitadka - 4 years ago

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Raina

@Raina101

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Posted: 4 years ago

#733

Originally posted by: Lee_14
bold-Exactly that's what
And Karachi ka fate was almost sure,so where they thinking ki jaha ho,usi country mai rahenge, whether India or Pakistan.

Sindh didn’t see rioting like Punjab, which is why many Hindus stayed back in Sindh. Infact the exodus in most parts of Sindh was fairly peaceful. Whatever isolated incidents happened were caused by muhajirs and the local Sindhis helped the Hindus to flee (if they wanted to). Both sets of my grandparents left Sindh and moved to India and stories I’ve heard aren’t as bad.

However, because it was relatively peaceful in Sindh, most families left behind their houses with valuable, taking just clothes with them, thinking they’d come back and live in their motherland. We all know that was never to be.