Memorial to Sir Lancelot Graham and Copy Forwarded to M. A. Jinnah on Sind Administrative Failures

Sub title : Zamindar’s Critique of Ministerial Corruption, Electoral Malpractices, and Demand for Governor’s Rule

Subject: M. A. Jinnah | Sind administration | Ministerial corruption | Electoral bribery | Sukkur riots

Date of publication: 1941

Language: English

Page: 5p.

Source: National Archives of Pakistan

Serial no: 28551

Keyword: M. A. Jinnah -- Sind administration 1941 -- Sir Lancelot Graham -- Ministerial corruption -- Electoral bribery -- Sukkur riots | Zamindars Association -- Governor’s rule -- Civil services independence

Abstract: This document is a memorial addressed to Sir Lancelot Graham, Governor of Sind, dated 4 March 1941, written by Ghulam Kadirshah, Zamindar and Secretary of the Zamindars Association, Shikarpur. A copy is respectfully forwarded to M. A. Jinnah for his opinion. The memorial delivers a scathing critique of Sind’s ministerial system since the introduction of autonomy. It alleges that repeated ministry collapses resulted not from member ambitions but from ministers’ personal greed, corruption, and manipulation. Electoral malpractices are detailed: vote-buying, bribing, pressure through police cases, granting licenses to police-listed badmashes, and exploitation by Waderas and Pirs.

Description: A detailed memorial exposing systemic corruption in Sind’s ministerial government, forwarded to Jinnah, demanding suspension of the ministry, restoration of executive independence, and electoral reforms to save Sind from administrative collapse. SCANNED BY: NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF PAKISTAN.

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