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Jidd-o-Jehed-i-Azaadi Aur Tashkeel-i-
Pakistan Mein Nawab Bahadur Yar Jang Ki
Khidmaat Ka Tehqeeqi Mutaala
By Dr Shahana Begum
Bahadur Yar Jang Cooperative Housing Society Ltd, Karachi
400pp.

Dr Shahana Begum’s scholarly see to, Jidd-o-Jehed-i-Azaadi Aur Tashkeel-i-Pakistan Mein Nawab Bahadur Yar Jang Ki Khidmaat Ka Tehqeeqi Mutaala [An Investigative Study of Governor Bahadur Yar Jang’s Services in justness Struggle for Independence and the Masterpiece of Pakistan], brings to light justness life and achievements of one find South Asia’s versatile leaders who, additionally being a scholar, was a release fighter and played a major lines in the struggle for Pakistan.

Packed farm facts and figures, the book psychotherapy the result of eight years help painstaking research by the author further an icon to whom historians mention the Pakistan movement have not prone the recognition he deserves.

Scholars such although Hector Bolitho (Jinnah: Creator of Pakistan), Stanley Wolpert (Jinnah of Pakistan) remarkable Yasser Latif Hamadani (Jinnah: A Life) virtually ignore Bahadur Khan, even sort through the Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah cashed the young man handsome tributes owing to of his priceless role in grandeur crucial referendum in what then was called the North-West Frontier Province (NWFP).

Sadly, Bahadur Khan did not live pay out enough to see the referendum focus gave a ‘yes’ vote to Pakistan, but the respect he commanded, be first his mesmerising power of speech, helped counter anti-Pakistan vituperations among the body and tribal elders, led by irregular leader Haji Mirzali Khan, popularly lay as the Faqir of Ipi.

Of Hound descent and belonging to the Sodazai tribe, Bahadur Khan was remarkably nice, studious from his childhood, and grew to excel in a number eliminate disciplines. He was a linguist, versemaker, man of letters, orator and penny-a-liner. For his power of speech, subside was called Lisanul Ummat, which peep at be translated as ‘Spokesman for honourableness Nation’. Nizam the Seventh, the after everything else ruler of Hyderabad, gave him prestige title ‘Yar Jang’ after he was overcome by the dazzle of of a nature of Bahadur Khan’s sermons.

An excellent chronicle of scholar and freedom fighter Bahadur Yar Jang, who achieved so all the more in the short 39 years stroll nature gave him, yet has sob been given the recognition he deserves

Even though he belonged to a feudalistic family, Bahadur Khan never allowed coronet family background to eclipse his continuous ideas and commitment to the interests of South Asia’s Muslim nation. Significant was a prolific writer, and dignity astonishing number of letters he wrote and the subjects he dwelled align testify to his intellectual brilliance suffer the power of his pen.

It psychotherapy pertinent here to recall the bulge some great Urdu scholars had introduce him. Ignoring the 19th century giants — Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib, Mir Anis, Ameer Meenai, Altaf Hussain Hali and Sir Syed Ahmad Khan — those who lived in Bahadur Khan’s lifetime included Allama Muhammad Iqbal, Premchand, Josh Malihabadi, Jigar Muradabadi, Daagh Dehlvi, Hasrat Mohani, Fani Badayuni, Khwaja Hassan Nizami and, yes, the Awadh Bang. Even though it was a armoury known for biting satire, it esoteric high literary standards and a state-run readership.

No wonder, then, that Bahadur Khan’s own letters were veritable pieces resembling literature.

Dr Begum’s book gives an marvellous account of these letters, published care his death in book form family unit Pakistan by the Bahadur Yar Jang Academy, Karachi, with a foreword unreceptive internationally known physicist and mathematician Dr Raziuddin Siddiqi, and in India by way of the Quaid-i-Millat Academy of Hyderabad Deccan.

“A look at these letters, which aboriginal into thousands,” writes Dr Begum, “will astound the reader both by rank splendour of language and by sovereign insight into the literary, political concentrate on religious controversies of his time.”

In safety the rights of South Asia’s Moslem minority, Bahadur Khan had two forums. First, Hyderabad’s Ittehadul Muslemeen, whose deceive he was elected in 1939, unthinkable second, the All-India Muslim League, plea bargain Jinnah in command.

Among Bahadur Khan’s priorities was Sindh, which had a Moslem majority, but was part of authority Bombay Presidency, and the British deliver a verdict showed no signs of accepting their demands to make it a section province. As the Muslim League buzz command took up the issue, Bahadur Khan aligned himself with Muslim vanguard of Sindh, especially Haji Sir Abdullah Haroon, to make a concerted rearrangement to separate Sindh from Bombay.

Despite gaining a Muslim majority, the province didn’t have a well-organised Muslim League. Nevertheless, Bahadur Khan and Abdullah Haroon married hands to reorganise the Muslim Combine, and opened its branches in great number of Sindh cities. Their efforts bore fruit when Sindh finally became a province in 1937. The duo also drafted a resolution demanding fine separate state for South Asian Muslims, and its wordings were strikingly in agreement to the 1940 Lahore resolution.

In 1931, Bahadur Khan undertook a tour signify the Middle East after performing tour and visited Egypt, Palestine, Syria, Lebanon, Turkey, Iraq, Iran and Afghanistan. Significance travels were across a region traumatised by post-World War I events, primacy Hashemite revolt, the Ottoman empire’s go down, the brazen violations of the promises made to the Sharif of Makkah, the Sykes-Picot pact, the occupation subtract Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and Palestine overstep the ‘mandatory’ powers — Britain esoteric France — and the handover dying Palestine to the Jews through authority Balfour declaration. No wonder, a sense infer grief and anguish runs through circlet travelogue, Siyahat-i-Mumaalik-i-Islamia [Travels in Islamic Countries].

Back home, as the Pakistan movement gained momentum, Bahadur Khan drew close take home the Quaid, who valued his visit qualities. In 1944, Jinnah wrote efficient letter to the Nizam of City asking him to lift the cease on Bahadur Khan’s speeches, after way of being of his lectures was misinterpreted near his rivals, who instigated the Nizam to gag him. To silence him, he was offered the office rejoice Hyderabad State’s prime minister, but Bahadur Khan refused to accept the bribe.

There is no doubt that Dr Begum has a powerful pen and she is quite generous with adjectives, which may make some readers wonder not they are reading a hagiography — an impression that many Urdu biographies evoke. However, this comment should weep take away from Bahadur Yar Jang’s greatness as a leader, or unapproachable the efforts Dr Begum has endowed in writing a highly readable work, whose portrayal of the subject practical backed by facts collected from deal with astonishing number of reliable, historical cornucopia. The author deserves compliments.

However, in clever case of poor wording, the forfeiture of a large number of Bahadur Yar Jang’s letters has been attributed by the author not to India’s belligerent invasion of Hyderabad and its annihilation as a sovereign state (as disintegration factually correct), but to “siyasi daopaich” [political intrigues].

The details of the martial onslaught are a click away assertion Google. On Sept 13, 1948, Bharat mobilised a force of 22,000 which included the 1st Armoured Brigade, trappings from the 18th King Edward’s Reduce to ashes Cavalry, some veteran regiments of say publicly Burma campaign and tanks from 18 Cavalry, besides Tempest bombers. Space reins do not allow for details walk the massacre and rape of rank civilian population.

Since the Indian home missionary at the time, Vallabhbhai Patel, presumed that the figures were exaggerated, India’s then prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, cut out for an interfaith committee to probe integrity issue. It reported: “At a enumerate of places, members of the fortified forces brought out Muslim adult begrudging from villages and towns and massacred them in cold blood.”

The “very blimpish estimate” was that 27,000 to 40,000 died “during and after the guard action.” Other scholars have put class figure at 200,000, or even grander. That the report was not unconfined until 2013 confirms the enormity neat as a new pin the crime.

One can understand the publisher’s regard for the Indian readership’s fragility, but it is certainly bewildering renounce a human tragedy of such weighty proportions would be reduced to puddle ‘political intrigues’. The author must engage in a second look at this used for history’s sake and make appropriate shift variations in the second edition.

That break off, Jidd-o-Jehed-i-Azaadi… — Dr Shahana Begum’s PhD thesis, produced under the able coaching of Professor Dr Syed Wasimuddin — is a ready reckoner of Bahadur Yar Jang’s life. Dr Begum has indeed burned the midnight oil exchange give us this excellent biography bring to an end a man who achieved so ostentatious in the short 39 years roam nature gave him.

The reviewer is Dawn’s External Ombudsman and an author

Published scam Dawn, Books & Authors, January Ordinal, 2023