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Bhurgari
Bhurgri ( sd, ڀرڳڙي) is a Baloch tribe which lives in various provinces of Pakistan. History – Origin The tribe itself is of Baloch origin, having come into Sindh in the late 17th century from the Sulaiman Ranges. The tribe has played a very important role since the start of the Baloch Talpur dynasty's reign, having held important roles in their governance and later on partaking in the wars against the British. The Battle of Meanee and Dubbo are these wars. Important Settlements * Ghulam Nabi Bhurgri, Shadadkot, Sindh. A historic settlement of the tribe. The settlement is right on the border between Balochistan and Sindh. * Kot Ghulam Muhammad Bhurgri. A very important settlement of the tribe. The majority of the tribe lives in the city or the areas and villages adjacent. The tribe has held the power in these areas since the reign of the talpur, and to this day holds most of the agricultural land. The Palace of Raees Ghulam Muhammad Bhurgri is also situated in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kot Ghulam Muhammad Tehsil
Kot Ghulam Muhammad ( sd, ڪوٽ غلام محمد) (formerly known as Jemesabad) is named after Ghulam Muhammad Khan Bhurgri, the Tehsil situated in south-east Mirpur Khas District of the Southern Province Sindh in Pakistan. Kot Ghlam Muhammad Bhurgri is situated west of Samaro and north of Digri. It is about south of Mirpur Khas. History Kot Ghulam Muhammad Bhurgri was formerly known as Jamesabad, it was named after Captain H. E. M. James for his services in the Battle of Miani in Hyderabad. During British rule the town was renamed as Jamesabad earlier called Samaro The taluka of Jamesabad was part of the Bombay Presidency, lying between 24°50' and 25°28' N. and 69°14' and 69°35′E and had an area of . According to the 1901 census the population was 24,038 - an increase almost 5,000 since the 1891 (19,208). The density of 48 persons per square mile was considerably above the District average. The Taluka contained 184 villages, of which Jamesabad was headquarters. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kot Ghulam Muhammad
Kot Ghulam Muhammad ( sd, ڪوٽ غلام محمد) (formerly known as Jemesabad) is named after Ghulam Muhammad Khan Bhurgri, the Tehsil situated in south-east Mirpur Khas District of the Southern Province Sindh in Pakistan. Kot Ghlam Muhammad Bhurgri is situated west of Samaro and north of Digri. It is about south of Mirpur Khas. History Kot Ghulam Muhammad Bhurgri was formerly known as Jamesabad, it was named after Captain H. E. M. James for his services in the Battle of Miani in Hyderabad. During British rule the town was renamed as Jamesabad earlier called Samaro The taluka of Jamesabad was part of the Bombay Presidency, lying between 24°50' and 25°28' N. and 69°14' and 69°35′E and had an area of . According to the 1901 census the population was 24,038 - an increase almost 5,000 since the 1891 (19,208). The density of 48 persons per square mile was considerably above the District average. The Taluka contained 184 villages, of which Jamesabad was headquarters. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bhurgari Railway Station
Bhurgari railway station ( ur, بھرگڑی, sd, ڀرڳڙي ريلوي اسٽيشن) is located in Village Ghulam Nabi Bhurgri, Taluka Shahdadkot, District Qamber Shahdadkot District, Sind, Pakistan. History The North-Western Railway ran through the district from north to south. Alight railway was constructed from Larkana to Kamber and thence to Shahdadkot and Jacobabad in Upper Sindh in 1918 during First World War. The names of the Railway Stations are as follows; 1) Larkana 2)Biro Chandio3) Pir Muhammad Metlo 4)Kamber 5)Bahram (Hethyon) 6)Ghulam Muhammad Kariro near Golo Wah 7)Silra Shahdadkot 8)Bhurgri Station 9)Umed Ali Junejo. After this came the Railway Station of Garhi Khero in District Jacobabad. Station was formed after great struggle by villagers, before the creation Pakistan. People went to the capital of the country for formation of the railway station. After 2010 Floods Most of the Railway Stations have been deserted and are occupied by the flood affected poor peo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abdul Ghafoor Bhurgri
Abdul Ghafoor Bhurgri ( sd, عبدا لغفورڀرڳڙي) (January 1921 - 10 February 2015), was a lawyer, writer and politician from Larkana, Pakistan. Early life Abdul Ghafoor Bhurgri was born on 1 January 1921, in the village of Ghulam Nabi Bhurgri, Shahdadkot. His father, Abdul Jalil Bhurgri, was a government employee and also practiced agriculture. Education Bhurgri received primary education in Shahdadkot and matriculated from Madrassah High School, Larkana. After graduating from C & S College, Shikarpur, affiliated with Bombay University, he attended the Aligarh Muslim University He gained his LLB and Masters in the Persian language between 1942 and 1946. Professional life His students included former Chief Justice of Pakistan Rana Bhagwandas, former Law Secretary Parkash Lal, Muhammad Bachal tunio, Abdul Hamid Bhurgri (Additional Advocate General High Court Larkano). Journalism He sometimes wrote for the newspaper ''Insaf''. Political career In his student life, h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mirpurkhas
Mirpur Khas ( Sindhi and ; ''meaning "Town of the most-high Mirs"'') is the capital city of the Mirpur Khas District and Mirpur Khas Division in the Sindh province, Pakistan. Mirpur Khas is the 16th largest city in Sindh province and the 80th largest city of Pakistan. The city was built by Talpur rulers of Mankani branch. According to the 2017 Census of Pakistan, its population is 233,916. Mirpur Khas is known for its mango cultivation, with hundreds of varieties of the fruit produced each year - it is also called the “City of Mangoes,” and has been home to an annual mango festival since 1955. After the completion of Hyderabad-Mirpurkhas dual carriage way, the city has become hub of commercial activities. History Early The Mirpur Khas region has been inhabited for millennia, as evidenced by the excavation of the Buddhist-era settlement of Kahoo Jo Daro. The remnants of stupas still remain. In 712 CE, the region was conquered by the armies of Muhammad Bin Qasim. Fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Talpur
Talpur (, bal, تالپورء اۏبادگ) is a Saraiki-speaking Baloch sub-clan of the Hoth tribe settled in Sindh, Punjab and Balochistan in Pakistan. The tribe established the Talpur dynasty, which ruled between 1783 and 1843, while a branch of the dynasty ruled until 1955 as the Khairpur princely state. See also *Mir ''Mir'' (russian: Мир, ; ) was a space station that operated in low Earth orbit from 1986 to 2001, operated by the Soviet Union and later by Russia. ''Mir'' was the first modular space station and was assembled in orbit from 1986 to&n ... * Bhurgri References {{Authority control Baloch people Baloch tribes History of Sindh Talpur dynasty ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abdul-Majid Bhurgri
Abdul-Majid Bhurgri ( sd, عبدالماجد ڀرڳڙي) (born February 8, 1948) is the founder of computing in the Sindhi language. He hails from Larkano, Sindh, Pakistan, and now lives in Seattle, USA. His work from 1987 to 1988 enabled the use of Sindhi on personal computers and revolutionized the Sindhi printing and publishing industry and largely with his work the later upcoming Sindhi generation helped further digitize it. From 2000 to 2001, Bhurgri developed the first Sindhi Unicode font, obtained support for Sindhi on the Microsoft Windows platform, developed resources to make the use of standard Sindhi possible on the Windows operating system, and made these resources freely available on the Internet. In 2002, Bhurgri wrote a paper for Microsoft titled “Enabling Pakistani Languages Through Unicode”. Referring to Bhurgri's paper, Microsoft's Michael S. Kaplan wrote on his blog: “This is pretty exciting, since at one point Sindhi was being considered for Vista (but w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ghulam Muhammad Khan Bhurgri
Ghulam Muhammad Khan Bhurgri ( sd, غلام محمد خان ڀرڳڙي) (Barrister),(1878-1924) was a Sindhi statesman. Raees Ghulam Mohammad Bhurgri was one of the earliest leaders of Sindh during the colonial period. He was contemporary and one of the closest aide of Quaid-e-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah.https://www.smiu.edu.pk/pdf/Makers-of-Modern-Sindh-Feb-2020.pdf Alike Jinnah, Bhurgri was also associated with both the Indian National Congress and All India Muslim League. The role of both these leaders was to bridge the differences between two major political parties of India as well as the religious communities Early life Raees Ghulam Muhammad Bhurgri was born on 15 July 1878 in the village of Dengan Bhurgri, Kot Ghulam Muhammad, District Tharparkar (now Mirpurkhas) in Sindh. He was the second son of Wali Muhammad Khan Bhurgri, a well-known, prosperous landlord (zamindar) of Sindh. Bhurgri family belonging to Baloch tribe, Bhurgri family who had migrated from “Bhurgarh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sindh
Sindh (; ; ur, , ; historically romanized as Sind) is one of the four provinces of Pakistan. Located in the southeastern region of the country, Sindh is the third-largest province of Pakistan by land area and the second-largest province by population after Punjab. It shares land borders with the Pakistani provinces of Balochistan to the west and north-west and Punjab to the north. It shares International border with the Indian states of Gujarat and Rajasthan to the east; it is also bounded by the Arabian Sea to the south. Sindh's landscape consists mostly of alluvial plains flanking the Indus River, the Thar Desert in the eastern portion of the province along the international border with India, and the Kirthar Mountains in the western portion of the province. The economy of Sindh is the second-largest in Pakistan after the province of Punjab; its provincial capital of Karachi is the most populous city in the country as well as its main financial hub. Sindh is home ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rais
( ar, رئیس), plural , is an Arabic title meaning 'chief' or 'leader'. It comes from the word for head, . The corresponding word for leadership or chieftaincy is . It is often translated as 'president' in Arabic, and as 'boss' in Persian. Swahili speakers may also use it for president. The Ottoman Turkish form of the title is reis, which denoted a captain (a term with identical etymology, being from Latin , 'head'). The term is of pre-Islamic origin. It may function as an honorific ''laqab'' in a person's name. In the central Arab world, the term originally meant village headman. British India In British India the landed nobility in Muslim societies often used the word to describe their aristocratic position held in society. The term was also often used by Muslims when making deed of endowments in their community. Although the word meant 'chief' or 'leader', legal documents used it in the context of 'landlords' or landowners. Other terms such as or ''zamindar'' also appea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tharparkar
Tharparkar (Dhatki language, Dhatki/ sd, ٿرپارڪر, ur, ), also known as Thar, is a district in Sindh province in Pakistan headquartered at Mithi. Before Indian independence it was known as the Thar and Parkar district. The district is the largest in Sindh, and has the largest Hindus, Hindu population in Pakistan. It has the lowest List of Pakistani Districts by Human Development Index, Human Development Index rating of all the districts in Sindh. Currently the Sindh government is planning to divide the Tharparkar district into Tharparkar and Chhachro district. History The name Tharparkar originates from a portmanteau of the words Thar (referring to the Thar Desert), and parkar (meaning "to cross over"). The Thar region was historically fertile, although it was mostly desertified between 2000 and 1500 BC. Before its desertification, a tributary of the Indus River was said to flow through the region; it is speculated by some historians that this river could be the ancien ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Activism
Activism (or Advocacy) consists of efforts to promote, impede, direct or intervene in Social change, social, Political campaign, political, economic or Natural environment, environmental reform with the desire to make Social change, changes in society toward a perceived greater good. Forms of activism range from Mandate (politics), mandate building in a community (including writing letters to newspapers), petitioning elected officials, running or contributing to a political campaign, preferential patronage (or boycott) of businesses, and demonstrative forms of activism like Demonstration (protest), rallies, Demonstration (people), street marches, strikes, sit-ins, or hunger strikes. Activism may be performed on a day-to-day basis in a wide variety of ways, including through the creation of art (artivism), computer hacking (hacktivism), or simply in how one chooses to spend their money (economic activism). For example, the refusal to buy clothes or other merchandise from a comp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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