On 3 June 1925, Chaudry Muhammad Hussain had a dream. Normally, such dreams would quickly evaporate, leaving no trace, but this one had startled him, its sharpness etched in his memory. The date also lodged in his mind – it was an offi cial holiday, the birthday of the Emperor of India, the British King George V. Otherwise, daily life in the market town of Jhang in the Indian province of Punjab continued much as it had done for centuries. Mains electricity and other modern prerequisites had not yet arrived. In the surrounding fi elds, gaunt oxen plodded in circles to drive wooden wheels that slopped water into irrigation channels. Unhitched from the wheels, the same animals pulled overloaded carts along potholed roads. In front of their mud houses, women cooked on open fi res fuelled by dried cow dung, which they had moulded by hand into cakes and left to dry in the sun. There were a few creaking bicycles. [download]
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