Tando Bago | |
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  Tando Bago Location in Sindh  Tando Bago Tando Bago (Pakistan) | |
| Coordinates: 24°46′56″N 68°58′17″E / 24.78222°N 68.97139°E | |
| Country | Pakistan |
| Region | Sindh |
| District | Badin |
| Taluka | Tando Bago |
| Population (2017)[1] | |
| • Total | 17,546 |
| Time zone | UTC+5 (PST) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+6 (PDT) |
Tando Bago (Sindhi: ٽنڊو باگو) is a town and union council in Badin District, Sindh, Pakistan. The Tehsil (township) of Tando Bago had a population of 321,818 in 2008.[2] The Sindh government operates approximately 589 schools in Tando Bago.[3]
As of 2017, the town of Tando Bago has a total population of 17,546 people, in 3,663 households.[1]
Tando Bago is located on the left bank of the Shadiwah canal and is connected by road with Hyderabad (via Tando Muhammad Khan), Wanga Bazar, Khairpur, Pangrio, Badin, and Nindo Shahr.[4] The area around Tando Bago is crisscrossed by many small seasonal drainage channels, which mostly derive from the Shahdadpur branch of the Indus, although some come from branches further west.[5]
Tando Bago is home to a prominent Sheedi community, which retains a distinct identity but is also relatively impoverished, mostly living in the ghetto area of Kandri Paro and working as lowly labourers.[6] Kandri Paro's houses are generally small and in disrepair and lack the courtyards found in other parts of town.[6] One notable member of Tando Bago's Sheedi community was Mussafir (a pen name; his given name was Muhammad Siddiq), who Sheedis throughout Sindh venerate as a hero for working to advance the position of Sheedis in society.[6] Mussafir's father Bilal was born in Zanzibar around 1793 and was sold into slavery; eventually he was sold to a stonemason who had just been contracted to build a fort in Tando Bago for the ruling Talpurs.[6] Mussafir himself was born in 1879, when his father was 86 years old.[6] He was childhood friends with Mir Ghulam Muhammad, the heir of the main Talpur ruling family, and Mussafir later got him to help with founding a high school for Sheedis in the old Talpur fort.[6] This school was the first in Pakistan to offer education to Sheedi girls.[6] Mussafir died in Tando Bago and his blue-and-white tomb is an important site for Sheedis in Sindh.[6]
- ^ a b Population and household detail from block to tehsil level (Badin District) (PDF). 2017. p. 42. Retrieved 10 January 2022.
- ^ "Population Welfare Department, Badin District". Population Welfare Department, Government of Pakistan. 2018.
- ^ Schools, Tando Bago. "Tando Bago Schools". SchoolingLog. Archived from the original on 7 September 2014. Retrieved 8 November 2013.
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- ^ a b c d e f g h Albinia, Alice (2010). Empires of the Indus: The Story of a River. New York: W.W. Norton & Company. pp. 68–76. ISBN 978-0-393-33860-7. Retrieved 10 January 2022.