Kabira
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Landlords of what? bar few hindu rajputs or merchants (some immigrated to india) most sindhi hindus are pisspoor.
Only few hindu rajputs were/are landlords in sindh.
What about dark complexion ? in Pak yes Sindhis compared to other groups are a shade darker... but not all...
There is hindutva myth that hindus used to own Pakistan before partition. By the time British came hindus were only merchant/baniya class and not land owners. Also I'm pretty sure sindhi and punjabi hindu merchant class was historically always more educated then any other community in south asia, apart from some Gujarati baniya and few parsis. Half of newly build city Karachi population used to be baniya sindhi hindus. When these people migrated to big Indian cities like Delhi and Mumbai they quickly established themselves and become elite, many of them industrialists etc Unlike in Pakistan, there hindu sindhi is associated with being rich, educated and basically own native Indians etc Andhon main kana raja wali kahawat yaad ati hai.
Now there is this perception in India that these sindhis and punjabi hindus most have been some big shit in Pakistan as well.
By force hindus couldn't gain any land so what baniya did is take full advantage of British raj by giving loans and then taking over muslim land when they couldn't payback. That practice was put to end in 1901 punjab alienation act and all of land they got (700,000 acres) was transferred back to landlords. Hence baniya enjoy very bad reputation.
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