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Sep 12, 2020 • 20 tweets • 8 min read
The lost written scripts of Pakistan - a thread
Between 1868 to 1947, the official written script for Sindhi was the Khudabadi script. Khudabadi script was in widespread use between 16th century Sindh and Partition of India. Today, it's been almost entirely forgotten.
Today, all languages in Pakistan are written in the Perso-Arabic script with modified characters for each written language. Urdu, Sindhi, Pashto, Punjabi, Khowar, Shina, Balochi and the rest are all written with modified forms of Perso-Arabic script.
Jun 1, 2020 • 22 tweets • 9 min read
So, black people of South Asia - a thread.
The Siddi people (or Sheedi, Makrani, Habshi) are people of African descent living in present-day India and Pakistan. They mostly concentrated in Sindh and Balochistan, as well as Hyderabad, Karnataka and Gujrat. [0]
While many of them came to Hindustan as slaves, others came as sailors, soldiers, mercenaries, merchants, eunuchs, concubines and pearl divers. [1]