File 04: Munawar Sabir

Portrait of Sharaf Din.

Photograph of Lady Mary Baring with the board of prefects, Government Asian High School in Nairobi, Kenya. Sitting, left to right: P. S. Benawra (Head Prefect), Mr. R. V. Bales (A.D.C.), G. S. Amar (Principal), The Lady Mary Baring, Miss Janisch (Asst. Director of Ed.), Rev. J. Gillett (P.E.O.), Mr. R. C. Patel (Vice-Principal). Standing first row, left to right: Zaheer-ud-din, Aftab Butt, Dharam… more

Photograph of the Urdu Literary Society, Government Asian High School in Nairobi, Kenya. Sitting, left to right: Teja Singh (Vice President), Mr. J. Paul (President), Mr. G. S. Amar (Principal), Mr. R. C. Patel (Vice Principal), Mr. M. S. Lone, Mukhtar Beg (Secretary). Standing first row, left to right: Waheed Sheikh, Raheem Sheikh (Leader Sol.), Zaheer-ud-deen (Leader Mars), Mohd Muneer, Moh… more

Speer's Chemical Society of Forman Christian College, Lahore, Pakistan. more

Portrait of Munawar Sabir, early university years. Munawar Sabir was born in Nairobi, Kenya in 1935 to Sardaran Khanum and Ghulam Sabir. Ghulam Sabir worked as a clerk with the British railway in Nairobi, and with his university education was able to move up into management, human resources, and finally, an accounting position. He was soon promoted to bursar and would travel by train, provided… more

Group photograph of Ahmed family.

Photograph of two unidentified individuals.

Portrait of Munawar Sabir in Nairobi, Kenya.

Ghulam Sabir and Sardaran visited Munawar and Eva Sabir in Canada in 1983. Left to right, back row: Sureya (Munawar's sister), Sureya's husband, Eva Sabir, Ghulam Sabir, and Sardaran Sabir. Front row: Roxanna, Laila, Shamma, and Sarah. more

Photograph of two unidentified individuals.

Photograph of Munawar Sabir revisiting his childhood home in Nairobi, Kenya. Munawar Sabir was born in Nairobi, Kenya in 1935 to Sardaran Khanum and Ghulam Sabir. Ghulam Sabir worked as a clerk with the British railway in Nairobi, and with his university education was able to move up into management, human resources, and finally, an accounting position. He was soon promoted to bursar and would… more

Photograph of Munawar Sabir and family revisiting childhood home in Nairobi.

Photographs of the Nairobi Railway Station. Sharaf Din built the station in [?].

Photograph of Munawar Sabir revisiting his childhood school in Nairobi, Kenya. Munawar Sabir was born in Nairobi, Kenya in 1935 to Sardaran Khanum and Ghulam Sabir. Ghulam Sabir worked as a clerk with the British railway in Nairobi, and with his university education was able to move up into management, human resources, and finally, an accounting position. He was soon promoted to bursar and would… more

Identification card of Munawar Sabir[?].

A colonial history of displacement written by Dr. Sarah Beaulieu, originally published in A Social History of South Asians in British Columbia.