“From Bhurṭṭaka to Bhutto: The Suryavamsha Lineage Pakistan Erased”, TheDharmaDispatch, 16 Sep 2026.

“THE FIRST WEEK of November 1947. 

Late night. 

Sardar Patel’s residence, Delhi. 

The phone rings. 

On the other end is N.M. Buch, regional commissioner of Saurashtra (Kathiawar Agency). The conversation is brief, terse. 

As Sardar Patel puts the receiver down, his face is aglow. He looks at K.M. Munshi and conveys what Buch had told him: the Dewan of the decamped Nawab of Junagadh had officially invited the Indian Army to take over this former Princely State. Munshi’s reply was just two sacred words: Jai Somanatha! 

The name of the Dewan of the demented Nawab of Junagadh was Shahnawaz Bhutto, a slick and oily opportunist who had inherited a vast ancestral fiefdom in Sindh and had wielded great power in the tribalistic Muslim politics of the region during pre and post partition days. For about two decades, Shahnawaz Bhutto had been a strident champion of Sindh separatism until Jinnah subsumed his ambition within the larger Pakistan project. 

The ceding of Junagadh was Shahnawaz Bhutto’s hour of lasting shame. He never recovered from it. His boss, the former Nawab’s cowardly flight to Pakistan, had forced Bhutto to officialise and thereby immortalise his shame, in a letter to Buch……….”

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