Word: sinds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...unholy, free-loving, fierce-fighting Hurs of Sind, unlike most haters of the British in India, indulged their hate in murderous rampages. Their sadistic, lecherous chief, the pock-marked Pir of Pagaro, ruled them from a fortress town called the "Golden Kot." There, behind walls 60 feet high and twelve feet thick, the Pir indulged his perverted whims with palaces, harems, luxury baths, torture chambers, a gold-and-marble throne...
Last summer, the British put the Pir in stir and declared war on his Hurs. Planes, tanks, cannon and parachutists invaded the sands, jungles and marshes of Sind. The Hurs had hatchets and blunderbusses. Some of them escaped by lying under water and breathing through straws, but the British wiped out most of the ringleaders and fanatics, battered down the walls of Golden...
...probably the only non-Congress Moslem important enough to challenge the claim of Mohamed Ali Jinnah to speak for all Moslems in India. In the last elections Jinnah's Moslem League won less than one-fourth of the seats officially reserved for Moslems in the Provinces; in the Sind, where Moslems are preponderant, it won not a single seat; in the North-West Frontier Province, with a population 92% Moslem, it polled less than 5% of all Moslem votes cast...
Thoroughly disgusted, Allah Bakhsh, Moslem Premier of Sind Province and president of the All-India Azad (independent) Moslem Conference, returned to the government his Order of the British Empire and gave up his British title, Khan (prince) Bahadur. He announced that he was starting a movement of his own, to "fight British imperialism from within and foreign aggression from without...
...president, barking for Pakistan (a separate Moslem state), came close to agreement on national government with his old political enemy, Dr. Syama Prasad Mookerjee of the Hindu (Orthodox) Mahasabha. A Government refusal to allow Dr. Mookerjee to interview Gandhi helped to balk a possible agreement. The Moslem premiers of Sind and Punjab and Bengal urged conciliation. A millionaire industrialist and longtime intimate friend of Gandhi, Ghan-shyamdas Birla, said that he believed Gandhi would agree to allow Jinnah to form his own government...