History
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Story of Tipu Sultan and his Matrimonial Alliances
Tipu married two women the same evening, in 1774, when he was 24. He entered into matrimonial alliance with the…
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Firepower and Regular Pay: How British Arms Overwhelmed Talpur Warriors
Payment to soldiers changed many hands – from the Mir’s Munshi to the Sardars and then to family heads and…
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Tracing the roots of Purswani family
The surname Purswani is derived from the name of their ancestor Pursumal, son of Nebhraj Jethmal Bhambrai; the family can…
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Women at the barricades
The name of both the insurgency that ruled Paris for 72 days, and the revolutionary civil war in which it…
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The Politics of Pain
For thousands of years, the statement ‘I am in pain’ was an emotional as well as a physical claim. Rob…
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Kot Diji Fort: A Hidden Heritage Site in Khairpur
The fort was built by the Sohrabani Talpurs of Khairpur. They stopped the Durranis of Afghanistan from ransacking Sindh and…
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Khan Bahadur Azeem Khan Durani- one of the unsung heroes of Sindh
Azeem Khan also played an important role in the case of Sindh’s separation from Bombay Presidency, which G. M. Syed…
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What Have Strikes Achieved?
‘In Aristophanes’ Lysistrata, the women of Greece unite together in a sex-strike’ By Lynette Mitchell ‘Strike action’ – the withdrawal…
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Religious Evolution of Sindhi Hindu Diaspora
At the time of partition there were about 1.3 million Sindhi Hindus. Most migrated to India. This is a record…
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One woman’s six-word mantra that has helped to calm millions
The nervously ill person usually notices each new symptom in alarm, listens-in in apprehension, and yet at the same time…
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