Welcome to Lekhraj Aziz Library

After the partition (1947-48) of India, Hindu Sindhi's were mercilessly forced to leave Sindh, their native place. Now Sindh is part of Pakistan because of geographical location. As the partition was not well planned, all 20 lakh (two million) refugees were scattered all over India without considering their religion, caste, language, literature, and culture.

At that time, the "AKHIL BHARAT SINDHI BOLI SAHITYA SABHA" NGO was formed by a progressive group of highly-educated persons under the banner of the Communist Party of India. They worked in refugee camps, especially in the field of education and literature, with the help of government agencies; they encouraged refugees to open schools and colleges. Sabha also helps in the preparation of textbooks in the Sindhi language in different states.

Initially, Sabha helped to establish library to save the language and literature at that time authors published their books, no proper concept of a library was there, a library was only a collection of books from different sources. There were no government grants, no place to keep books systematically.

They operated library in school, college, etc. Slowly they were forced to vacate the place. Lastly, in 1984, we got the Aziz Library unconditionally from then-secretary Shri Teckchand Rewani Mast, who was general secretary of the Sabha. There were about 1,500 to 2,000 Sindhi books.

As Aziz was very popular among poets, we agreed to continue the same name. Prof. Ram Panjwani, who was ambassador among refugees, and Prof Popati Hirandnani inaugurated the library at sindhu youth circle.

Slowly authors started sending books, etc. CHD and NCPSL listed this library in their mailing list. Good encouragement was received from Prof. Popati Hiranandnai, Motiram Ramwani, Teckchand Mast, Kirat Babani, Hari Motwani, Nand Chhugani, Dr. Narayan Bharti, Hiro Shewkani, Rochiram Khanwani, Dr. Jagdish Lachhani, and Jaiveer (Veeru Jaisinghani).

As of today, we have 27,130 (Twenty Seven Thousand One Hundred Thirty) books, a mixed lot based on stories, novels, fiction, poetry, biography, autobiography, dictionaries, etc., well arranged in cupboards in the building of the Sindhu Youth Circle. Since the last two years, the Rekhta Foundation, New Delhi & Prof. Mrs. Neelam Motwani, are helping in the digitalization process of books by modern methods. Sindhu Youth Circle is very thankful to them. Every book in the library is scanned and kept in the software for easy accessibility and reading.

Now we can say it is a library, a collection of books organized in index form with the names of books and author wise. It is purely a social work job. No employee is appointed for this purpose. Nand Chhugani was the Hon. Librarian for the last 50 years and did a BLIS. He is a retired bank manager. Mr. Ramesh Motwani joined him in 2006, and they worked together to keep books in proper format by giving Serial numbers, titles of books in A, B, and C of Sindhi under the Arabic script. Now anyone can search and find the books in a few seconds with the help of the digitalization of books.

Shri Sunder Dangwani, Chief Executive Trustee of Sindhu Youth Circle, who helps a lot in upgrading the library and helps in generating the resources and solving our problems.