THE MAKING OF EXILE: SINDHI HINDUS AND THE PARTITION OF INDIA

by NANDITA BHAVNANI

  7.Iftikhar Malik, ‘Ethno-Nationalism in Pakistan’, p 58 and p 72.

  8.S. Sathananthan, ‘Sindhi Nationalism and Islamic Revolution in Pakistan’, p 241.

  9.Census of India 2001. This does not include speakers of Kutchi.

  10.Shah Abdul Latif, Sur Marui, Dastaan 10, Bait 2. My translation.

  11.Ranjit Hoskote and Ilija Trojanow, Confluences: Forgotten Histories from East and West, p 190.

  12.Ranjit Hoskote and Ilija Trojanow, ibid, p 175.

  13.As quoted in Motilal Jotwani, Atamkatha Je Naale Mein, p 60. My translation.

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