G. M. Syed

غلام مرتضى سيد

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Sindhi politician and writer (1904–1995) from Sann: he began in the Khilafat movement at sixteen, rose to president of the Sindh Muslim League in 1943, broke with the League, and founded the Jeay Sindh movements for a separate Sindhi homeland — spending some thirty years in prison or house arrest and writing more than sixty books on Sindh's history, culture and religion.

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Politician · writer
Region
South Asia
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    1. G. M. Syed — English Wikipedia
    2. G. M. Syed — Arabic Wikipedia
    3. G. M. Syed — Urdu Wikipedia
    4. G. M. Syed — Wikidata
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