10 They sat in the library’s majlis, which was connected to the Public Majlis on one side, while the other side was accessible from Sheikh Sultan’s bedroom. While my father and uncle talked, I wandered into the library, where I found a book that my uncle had been reading, left open. At the age of nine, I could read well and eagerly tried to decipher the page in front of me. Suddenly, my uncle, Sheikh Sultan, walked in. Seeing I was trying to read, he said to me, “This book is not for children like you to read. Your father is leaving.” Several months later, Sheikh Sultan fell ill and was sent to Bombay for treatment in May 1949. He was then transferred to London on February 8, 1951,
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