The Sindhi Swarankar Community and other Hindus who have escaped conversion flee from Sindh to escape sectarian violence during the period of Mahmud’s invasion.
Britain's annexation of Sindh province in 1843 cuts off the native independent Indian kingdoms' access to the sea other than through British-controlled ports.
The Bombay Army, led by Major General Sir Charles Napier, defeats the Muslim Talpur Emirs at the Battle of Hyderabad on March 24, 1843, securing Sindh as a province of British India, and annexing the region's three small states.
"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe... Yet, clumsily or smoothly, the world, it seems, progresses and will progress."
― H.G. Wells, The Outline of History, Vol 2 (1920)
