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A slow fire is a term used in library and information science to describe paper embrittlement resulting from acid decay. The term is taken from the title of Terry Sanders 's 1987 film Slow Fires: On the preservation of the human record.
The Federal Advisory Board was created in 1940 to fill the need for an organisation which could initiate, supervise and promote the publication of material in Sindhi language. In 1950, a more powerful executive committee was constituted, and in March 1955 the Sindhi Adabi Board was brought into being. [citation needed]
According to Thapar, the introduction and growth of the practice of sati as a forced fire sacrifice is related to new Kshatriyas, who forged their own culture and took some rules "rather literally", [37] with a variant reading of the Veda turning the symbolic practice into the practice of pushing a widow and burning her with her husband. [33]
Sadruddin modified Sindhi script, which was commonly used by the lohana caste of Sindh Hindus who embraced Islam as a result of his teaching; he called them Khuwajas or Khojas. During the Samma dynasty (1351–1521), Sindh produced notable scholars and poets; the Sammas were some of Sindh's original inhabitants. Mamui Faqirs' (Seven Sages ...
Pakistan's Sindh province abounds in fairy-tales and folktales that form its folklore. Some of these folktales ( قصا ۽ ڪٿائون ) are particularly important for the development of higher literature in Sindhi , since they were to form the core of mystical tales of Sindh immortalized by Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai , and are generally known ...
The roots of Sindhi culture go back to the distant past. Archaeological research during the 19th and 20th centuries showed the roots of social life, religion, and culture of the people of the Sindh: their agricultural practises, traditional arts and crafts, customs and traditions, and other parts of social life, going back to a mature Indus Valley Civilization of the third millennium BC.
Wanderer, idolater, worshipper of fire, Come, and come yet again, Ours is not a caravan of despair. [50] Dervishes singing Shah jo Rag at his shrine. During Bhittai's lifetime, Sindh transitioned from Delhi-based Mughal rule to the local Kalhora dynasty. During the later part of Bhittai's life, Nadir Shah Afshar sacked Delhi and made Sindh his ...
Sindh came to be at the forefront of the Khilafat Movement. [109] Although Sindh had a cleaner record of communal harmony than other parts of India, the province's Muslim elite and emerging Muslim middle class demanded separation of Sindh from Bombay Presidency as a safeguard for their own interests.