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Jan 7, 2012, 03.45AM IST TNN
HYDERABAD: The Hyderabadi
diaspora is either forced to shed its
Hyderabadi tag due to powerful
geopolitical forces or for others, it
remains deeply rooted in their culture.
Professor of Anthropology at the
University of California, Karen Leonard
observes that Hyderabadis who moved
to Pakistan at the time of the Partition
still carry with them the 'mohajir'
label, struggling to find acceptance.
They have now started moving to
western countries in search of a better
future.
With the creation of Urdu societies in
North America, Europe and the Middle
East, Hyderabadis are making efforts
to go back to their roots. While some
are making efforts to cling to their
culture, others are intermarrying and
mixing with people of different races.
Visiting the city after three years to
attend a conference, Leonard
describes the Deccani synthesis as a
model for tolerant society.
Speaking to TOI on Friday Leonard,
however, notes that she has seen a
decline in communal harmony in the
city. She is also worried about the
Telangana movement. "While young
Hyderabadis are busy creating a new
mixed culture_ creating their own kind
of plural society_ the people from
Andhra have not recognised the
legitimacy of the Nizam's state and
culture and are not proud of its Indo-Muslim architecture," she observes.
She says that the populace still thinks
that the previous rulers were Islamic
when they were actually tolerant. The
term Indo-Muslim, she explains, does
not emphasize on a religious culture,
but on a civilization instead.
Leonard's association with India goes
back to 1961 when the she was a
student in Miranda House in Delhi.
Little did she know that she would be
enamoured by the composite Indo-Muslim art, culture and architecture of
India. It was her contact with this
multilayered, multifaceted pluralistic
society which urged her to understand
it better by deciding to become a
historian of the Mughal era.
However, there was one hurdle: the
hundreds of documents chronicling the
Mughal era were either in Farsi or
Urdu so she started learning the
languages. Her first encounter with the
city of the Nizams was when she had
stopped for the night at a sarai in
Nampally on her way from Delhi to
Chennai. She returned five years later
to complete her dissertation on the
Kayasths of Hyderabad. "The number
of documents in the Nizam State
Archives was more than that in Delhi,"
she says. "They were more recent and
interesting. That's why I chose to
study the Deccan."

---------- Post added at 11:07 AM ---------- Previous post was at 11:05 AM ----------

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such a propaganda article, my neighbours are hyderabadi, and we didnt even know, we just knew they were karachiites until they sent us some hyderabadi dish in ramazan

times of india, enough said

this is char minar built by hyderabadi community living in bahadurabad in karachi

Charminar_Karachi.JPG


this is some of the most expensive areas in karachi
 
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find new material to read on your mobile, kiddo

nobody walks around with a sign saying "mohajir" on their forehead. . .


this whole thing is beyond exaggerated.....i still say that Mohajirs --like all other groups in Pakistan are patriotic and loyal Pakistanis. In fact, they demonstrated patriotism by abandoning everything in pre-independence british hindustan (even comfort of their homes) because they believed in Pakistan and they still do to this day.
 
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even a.q. khan once said that he feels he is treated like a mohajir in pakistan..
 
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New theories... First time I'm hearing about it.

Perhaps TOI came up with this theory since MQM has always wished to make a new province out of Karach and Hyderabad and this has been in the news recently...

Making up a story about Karachi is harder since Karachi is online and verifiable, Hyderbarad is much smaller and less bustling.

It's odd, Muhajir Tag is real, but the why the emphasis on Hyderabadis?
 
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New theories... First time I'm hearing about it.

Perhaps TOI came up with this theory since MQM has always wished to make a new province out of Karach and Hyderabad and this has been in the news recently...

Making up a story about Karachi is harder since Karachi is online and verifiable, Hyderbarad is much smaller and less bustling.

It's odd, Muhajir Tag is real, but the why the emphasis on Hyderabadis?

She is talking about the Hyderabadis in India too.. She feels their unique culture is getting lost.
 
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She is talking about the Hyderabadis in India too.. She feels their unique culture is getting lost.

how many aunties and uncles do you meet on our part of the world who DONT say that "culture" is being lost

over 12 years ago my late grandfather saw me once riding down the road on one wheel and he smacked me with his walking cane, saying I've lost my culture
 
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such a propaganda article, my neighbours are hyderabadi, and we didnt even know, we just knew they were karachiites until they sent us some hyderabadi dish in ramazan

times of india, enough said

this is char minar built by hyderabadi community living in bahadurabad in karachi

Charminar_Karachi.JPG


this is some of the most expensive areas in karachi

Very good replica....
 
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The article is a cr@p and another cheap propaganda rubbish. I know this since I am both Hyderabadi and a Karachiite.
 
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looking at some posts - it seems there is no problems at all for Muhajeers. its good.
 
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