Sindhi has Roots in Moenjodaro

Sindhi has Roots in Moenjodaro

Participants at a seminar on May 25 at the Arts Council stressed that the Sindhi script was flourishing, and scholarly work was in full swing before the British arrived in the region in 1843.

The seminar was titled `Glorious Past of Sindh: A New Perspective’ by the Dr N.A. Baloch Institute of Heritage Research at the Arts Council.
It had two sessions, namely on manuscripts and on history and heritage sites.
Researchers and foreign archeologists participated in the sessions, which held consensus that scholarly works were being written by hand before the advent of the printing press.

Speakers also set the record straight about the birth place of Mughal Emperor Akbar, saying he was actually born in Umerkot, Sindh in 1542.
Historians said that they were keen to undertaken original research, in which first hand sources be used.
According to the organizers, the institute also undertook to translate works from Arabic and Persian into Sindhi in order to revisit the history of Sindh with a fresh perspective.