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جام جم

غلام محمد گرامي


 

THE PUBLIC VOICE OF SIND MOSLEMS

for

BRINGING TO THE KIND NOTICE

of the

SECRETARY OF STATE FOR INDIA

and

COMMISSIONER-IN-SIND

 

1. The unanimous dissent in the Home Rule question, shown on behalf of all Sind Mohammadans by Sind Mobammadans Association at its general meeting and expressed in the address presented to His Excellency the Viceroy, is quite justifiable and reasonable.

2. Thereafter if signature of any Mohammadan is found to have been taken on Mr. Gandhi's draft memorial or any other such reform scheme document, it should be treated as of no significance or weight.

3. A few Sind Mohammadans who arepro homerule are either merchants, pleaders, or members of a sect of Mohammadan Community e.g., Khojas, Boris and Memons who are neither sons of the soil nor familiar with the ways and manners of Sind Mohammadans. Any proposition emanating from them or any demand advanced by them in conjunction with Hindus should therefore never be considered to be representative of the entire Community.

4. The case of Sind is yet quite different and peculiar Its population consists of nearly 27 lacs of Mohammadans and of only about 7 Lacs of Hindus. In matters educational, however, the difference between the two communities is quite the contrary, the numerically superior race being far behind the other.The claim for Home Rule put forth by the latter may therefore be reasonable but for the former to do so is an absurdity, for it is not yet fit for the same.

5. Even now the Hindu community is predominant in all ranks of Government Service. So if Home-rule is bestowed it is but certain Mohammadans will never get as much share as they get under the present system of Government.

6. Sind was conquered from Mohammadans and is the home of big and respectable Jagirdars and Land-holders. If any wide awake and well-informed administrator has ever shown sympathy with the fallen Mohammadan community in the shape of bestowing some high places on Mohammadans in Government service on considerations of high family or the backwardness of the community or efficiency of administration, the members of the other community have protested strongly in papers and criticised the action of the official concerned in very unpalatable terms.

7. Since Hindus envy Mohammadans in Government Service, in the Councils, and on the Boards, what trust can Mohammadans repose in them and come forward to claim Home Rule in concert with them simply to plunge themselves in permanent slavery to them (Hindus).

8. It is more preferable for Mohammadans to be under the present Government of British Bureaucracy than to be ruled by Hindus. Mohammadans are satisfied with the Local Government that has been granting to them rights and privileges according to their deserts.

9. The security of the rights of Mohammadans lies in separation from Hindus, for the customs and manners of the former are quite divergent and they are numerically far superior to the latter.

10. Sind Mohammadans are mostly Zamindars and agriculturists and therefore constitute the chief source of revenue to Government. But as long as their two grievances are not remedied, they will never attain felicitous circumstances.

First"- All civil suits be referred to private 'Arbitration Courts', limitation set upon 'usury', and the provisions of the Punjab Land Alienation Act 13 of 1900 extended to Sind to guard the Mohammad pans property against alienation by sale, action and confiscation.

Second— The control of Mohammadans’ education should rest with Mohammadans, as under the existing system no benefit is likely ever to accrue to them. The passing of the bill for compulsory education is bound to prove suicidal to Mohammadan interests. For securing to the fallen Mohammadan community the above related two privileges, nay, boons, the name of Honourable Mr: Lawrence will ever remain green in the memory of the Sind Mussalmans like that of late Sir James who immortalized his name by introducing 'The Deccan Relief Act' and the "Encumbered State system”, Both the names will then remain as bright as the sun for ever in the annals of Sind. Further as full generosity has been shown in respect of the grant of Honourary Magisterial powers, it should be empowered to try small cause civil suits also in the interests of poor agriculturists. In the absence of these things it is next to impossible that the Mohammadan community can ever make any least progress, for all other remedies will be futile and not radical.

11- Not a single clause of the Congress-League reform scheme is conducive to Mohammadan interests. Mohammadans have therefore nothing to do with it.

 

12. Not only in Sind but in the Punjab too several Mohammadans are deadly against Home Rule and their resolutions or memorials to that effect must have been submitted to the Government.

13. Home Rule is suited to a country peopled by men of one religion and one caste. Such is not the case here.

14. India, as is well proved by its histories, has never enjoyed self-Government. It is a blunder therefore to compare it to England. How then do Indians deem themselves fit for and entitled to Home Rule!

15. We would not grudge if Goverment, out of generosity, grant any wish of the Hindus provided of course Mohammadan interests be not jeopardised thereby.

16. Any demands put forth by Hindus should be considered to have been made solely by them and Mohammadans will have nothing to do with the same even though they may contain a statement to the effect that Mohammadans acquiesce in them.

17. When the relations between the Hindus and Mohammadans are not amicable as evidenced by the recent sad occurrances in Behar, Shahabad, Badiwan, Brailly and Delhi, the grant of Home Rule will on the contrary further such disturbances.

18. When Hindus cannot even make a small sacrifice in the shape of House Tax for the welfare of their country—it being a 1st lesson in self-help— what good can they do to the country when granted Home Rule? The stronger community will have every thing to itself.

19. Mohammadans express their ulmost regret at the attitude of the Hindus who have at this momentous juncture of the war embarrassed the Government by their unreasonable demands. This is indeed the most inopportune moment chosen by them.

20. In conclusion, Mohammadans offer their hearty prayer for the success of the Allies over their ruthless enemy. They also assure the Government of their full sympathies with them and thank God that in this very trying time they have proved themselves to be unflinching in their loyalty and devotion to their sovereign and express a hope they will continue to be so as long as life is in them.

In conclusion, we cannot refrain from observing that since our Hindu brethren of Sind and their lady leaders have beem vauntingly giving out that the country, originally theirs, was made over to the English for mere administration's sake and that they were now demanding it back without at all begging for Home Rule, it will be highly expedient for Government to issue a press communique stating that Government is prepared to return the country with its Home Rule to those from whom it was coniquered by them. It should then be seen whether our brethren persist in their demand or show their heels. This will serve as a very effective way of muzzling their mouths because it is as clear as a day that Sind belonged to Mohamrnadans and was taken from them. How is it then that Hindus demand its Home Rule? What an absurd claim! As a matter of fact Mohammadans should advance this claim but they will do it only when they consider themselves quite fit for it. In the meanwhile why should others meddle in a matter which does not at all concern them?

Note: Besides, objections to the Congress-League Reform Scheme and Sind Provincial Scheme have also been written in this book which forms vernacular part of it.

Shamsuddin "Bulbul"

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