Archief G.M. Sayed

Period 1926-1992 (-1996)
Total size   0.48 m.
Consultation Not restricted

Biography

Born in Sann, Sindh, British India (Pakistan) 1904, died in 1995; politician and author; at an early age, and already active in local politics, Sayed became president of the Karachi District Local Board in 1929; member of the Sindh Legislative Assembly in 1937; joined the All-India Muslim League in 1938; disassociated himself from the Muslim League in 1946; founder of the Progressive Muslim League and after the creation of Pakistan in 1947, of the Pakistan Peoples Party which was prohibited within three months; in the 1950s he was involved in the formation of the Pakistan National Party; disappointed in national politics at the end of the 1960s, he founded the Jiy-e-Sindh movement.

Content

Collection from Ahmad Saleem of the Gohar Research Institute of Pakistan (GRIP) in Lahore consisting of letters to Sayed by Qazi Faiz Muhammad 1946-1972 and some other correspondence 1949, 1957, n.d.; documents on politics in Sindh, including documents relating to the Sindh Muslim League 1926, 1936, 1938-1946, n.d.; documents concerning his temporary release from prison in 1959; manuscript of `The Case for Sindh. G.M. Sayed's Deposition for the Court' [1992].

Correspondence by Sayed and others 1928-1968; documents relating to the Sindh Legislative Assembly 1937, 1943, 1953-1954; the Sindh Assembly Coalition Party 1946; the National Awami Party 1955-1958 and other political organizations; documents on Hindu-Muslim relations in Sindh 1928-1940; documents concerning Sayed's detention 1970-1971 and on subsequent restrictions 1972-1985; copies of articles, some of them by Sayed 1929-1996.

Processing information

Preliminary list made by Ahmad Saleem, Tiny de Boer and Jaap Haag