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Before I start
here, I feel this is my most obligatory duty
to pay homage to ever inspiring memories of my
parents Dadanbai & Dr. Premchand Manghirmalani,
as whatever you are going to read are the
memories of both of them, which I am trying to
present with addition of some of recent facts.
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 Geography
and Statics
This was the Indus River commonly
known as the river Sindhu [in the Sanskrit
language Sindhu Means Ocean] which works for
the fertility of this land and well being of
native on its banks. In fact the this land
derives name Sindh from the river Sindhu, the
name mentioned in world’s oldest knowledge
books Vedas, more times even the holly river
Ganga. Area wise Sindh is larger than England
in the lower Indus basin with Arabian sea
Indian ocean in south, Plains of Punjab in
north, desert extended to merge with Thar
desert of Rajasthan in east and Khirtar
mountain range in the west. The human
population was in the proximity of 5 millions
[at present about 50 millions].
The river Sindhu covers a length of
almost 3000 kilometers and all most one third
of it is in the Sindh. This was common saying
that this land is Gift of river Sindhu to
human beings another such gift of nature is
the Egypt of river Nile. Less rains and hot
climatic conditions, average temperature above
30 degree Celsius with world’s hottest city
Jacobabad being part of Sindh, river Sindhu
was working as the life line for the citizen.
Among the major famous cities Dadu, Hyderabad,
Mirpurkhas, Larkana, Nawabshah, Tando Adam,
shikarpur etc. of the sindh, Hyderabad was the
city with a some what pleasant climate and
cool breezes while the Jacobabad and Sevahan
were the among the hottest places of the
region. [According to records of
meteorological reports in the year 1919
mercury went to touch 52 degree Celsius at
Jacobabad].
Economy of Sindh
Sindh was an agro based economy.
The main crops were the Rice, wheat, cotton
and sugar cane but rice was cultivated in
abundance and Larkana was famous for its very
fine quality rice crops though Dadu and Thata
were not legging for behind in the cultivation
of rice crops. Cotton was the main crop of
Hyderabad and Nawabshah, and production of
cotton has included sindh on the world map of
textile industry. Sugar can was cultivated in
the southern parts. Sindh was also producing
good quality fruits like the Mango and Banana.
Rice Mill was the main industry in the Larkana
and Dadu districts.
Beside the agricultural and textile
people of Sindh were also earning very
handsomely from their skills of pottery,
leather work and art of weaving of carpets.
Specific and very unique way of polishing the
ornaments and embroidery on cloths also
brought considerable praise for the natives of
Sindh besides adding to their physical wealth.
Mahoan-jo-daro have very distinctive
illustration that native of Sindh were well
versed with these artistic works since the
ancient times at least in the pottery.
Sindh: Historic rulers & Political Status
On the political fronts life of
land of Sindh was started with the Vedic life
style. Brahmanism and Buddhism also found this
land for flourishing. Raja Dahar was the last
Hindu King of Sindh. This land in the Indus
valley also witness ruling by the Somara
Dynasty, almost for 200 years, Samma rulers
for almost 100 years. Though Humayun visited
Sindh during the reign of Samma rulers but
Mugul rule started only with the Emperor Akbar
and lasted till the time of Nadir shah and
before the British rule Sindh was under the
governing of Talpur Mirs. After the
Independence in 1947 Sindh become part of
newly formed country Pakistan and presently is
the second largest provision with Karachi
being the capital city. It is a historic fact
that Islam was propagated on the land of Sindh
under the influence of powers of sword [for
details visit “Sindhi Deity Jhulelal”
in the
World of Sindhyat
section of
www.thesindhuworld.com
] and Hindus were saved by Lord Jhulelal. If
we go back to Vedic era, the north region of
India, Pakistan and east Afghanistan were
referred as the Sapta Sindhu in the Rig-Veda.
For the travelers from Arab and Persia this
sub continent was composed of two countries
Hind [entire ancient India] and Sindh [part of
present Pakistan] in fact the names Hind and
Hindu have origin with Sindh and Sindhu.
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