why was Sindh not "partitioned"??

[Levina]

Just curious!!
Sindh had a population of 1,400,000 Hindus at the time of partition and some of the bordering districts like Tharparkar District, Umerkot, Mirpurkhas, Sanghar and Badin had a hindu majority. Infact Umerkot still has a hindu majority.
These parts could 've been given to India.
Another thing that baffles me is this
" It was declared by the Government of Sindh, that any land owned by Muslims before 1907 would be given back to them, regardless of Hindu ownership". [r]
why was such a law passed? and why 1907?

 

[Jf Thunder]

i dont know much about this, but didnt they look at it from an overall point of view? like the whole poppulation of Sindh or something? shouldnt we have gotten Ferozpur by that logic?

 

[Icarus]

Partition referendums were called by lawmakers, Sindh had a strong Hindu presence and the lawmakers felt no immidiate threat to their interests and thus did not call for a referendum. Sindh had, and continues to have a strong ethnic identity, almost to the point of being violent in its rejection of others and that identity dominated religious identity at the time of partition.

 

[Levina]

i dont know much about this, but didnt they look at it from an overall point of view? like the whole poppulation of Sindh or something? shouldnt we have gotten Ferozpur by that logic?

I'm not sure.
Reality is Hindus fled to India, so if it was from an overall point of view they should have been protected. JMHO!

Partition referendums were called by lawmakers, Sindh had a strong Hindu presence and the lawmakers felt no immidiate threat to their interests and thus did not call for a referendum. Sindh had, and continues to have a strong ethnic identity, almost to the point of being violent in its rejection of others and that identity dominated religious identity at the time of partition.

Thank you!
You're right that sindh had a strong hindu presence, and unlike punjabi hindus, sindhu hindus did not have to witness any massive scale rioting. But still 776,000 Sindhi Hindus fled to India and lawmakers did not help them in any way, the law passed on properties exacerbated the situation.

 

[Dalit]

Just curious!!
Sindh had a population of 1,400,000 Hindus at the time of partition and some of the bordering districts like Tharparkar District, Umerkot, Mirpurkhas, Sanghar and Badin had a hindu majority. Infact Umerkot still has a hindu majority.
These parts could 've been given to India.
Another thing that baffles me is this
" It was declared by the Government of Sindh, that any land owned by Muslims before 1907 would be given back to them, regardless of Hindu ownership". [r]
why was such a law passed? and why 1907?

I could pose the same question and ask why Jammu and Kashmir wasn't partitioned despite it being a Muslim majority.

To answer your question, Pakistan was created for all faiths. That includes minorities such as Hindus, Christians etc. Your theory doesn't hold.

 

[Lord ZeN]

A legitimate question. Sindhi Hindus were the biggest losers of the Partition.

 

[Dalit]

A legitimate question. Sindhi Hindus were the biggest losers of the Partition.

No, they weren't. They still got their land, faith etc. More truthful is the fact that the partition of Pakistan was rather a painful loss for India. Get over it though. It's done and dusted. Posing such irrelevant questions is useless now. Your curiosity isn't going to change anything any more.

 

[Areesh]

Because Sindh assembly which was the representative of whole Sindh voted unanimously in the favor of Pakistan. So there was no question of partition of Sindh since its representatives voted for Pakistan.

 

[pursuit of happiness]

I could pose the same question and ask why Jammu and Kashmir wasn't partitioned despite it being a Muslim majority.

To answer your question, Pakistan was created for all faiths. That includes minorities such as Hindus, Christians etc. Your theory doesn't hold.

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all faith and still islamic respulic

 

[Levina]

I could pose the same question and ask why Jammu and Kashmir wasn't partitioned despite it being a Muslim majority.

To answer your question, Pakistan was created for all faiths. That includes minorities such as Hindus, Christians etc. Your theory doesn't hold.

Let me remind you that Maharaja Hari Singh preferred to keep J&K independent and did not want to join either the Union of India or the Dominion of Pakistan. He wanted both India and Pakistan to recognise his princely state as an independent neutral country like Switzerland.
But when tribal Kabailis from the Northwest Frontier Province invaded Kashmir proper the Maharaja turned to India. And the Maharaja signed an Instrument of Accession to the Dominion of India.
Rest is history.

 

[Jf Thunder]

I could pose the same question and ask why Jammu and Kashmir wasn't partitioned despite it being a Muslim majority.

To answer your question, Pakistan was created for all faiths. That includes minorities such as Hindus, Christians etc. Your theory doesn't hold.

cuz Kashmir was a princely state DUHH

 

[Lord ZeN]

No, they weren't. They still got their land, faith etc. More truthful is the fact that the partition of Pakistan was rather a loss for India. Get over it though. It's done and dusted. Posing such irrelevant questions is useless.

It's not irrelevant to the Sindhi Hindus living in India.
They lost everything just like that. They were not provided any Sindhi land when the Bengali & Punjabi Muslims were given that privilege.

 

[Icarus]

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all faith and still islamic respulic

Yes there is that bit, but the fact remains that despite the name, people of all faiths are free to do as they please, except become Prime Minister, which is a restriction I do believe should be taken down. We have had problems with religious extremism in the past decade but it has been dealt with by people of all faiths.

 

[Areesh]

Let me remind you that Maharaja Hari Singh preferred to keep J&K independent and did not want to join either the Union of India or the Dominion of Pakistan. He wanted both India and Pakistan to recognise his princely state as an independent neutral country like Switzerland.
But when tribal Kabailis from the Northwest Frontier Province invaded Kashmir proper the Maharaja turned to India. And the Maharaja signed an Instrument of Accession to the Dominion of India.
Rest is history.

Bogus history. While Indians Kashmir history starts from tribal invasion ours starts from the Jammu Muslim massacre that happened before the tribal invasion and was the reason behind that invasion. Rest is history with dubious accession of Kashmir to India.

 

[iffee100]

Because Sindh assembly which was the representative of whole Sindh voted unanimously in the favor of Pakistan. So there was no question of partition of Sindh since its representatives voted for Pakistan.

This reasoning is correct.