tyab in A Sentence

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    On one occasion Tyab Ali put this confidence to a severe test.

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    Well, having made his money, how did Tyab Ali proceed to spend it?

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    Perhaps it is not quite right to say that Tyab Ali' s domestic habits did not change with his changing mental vision.

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    Tyab Ali had an enormous respect for learning, and it must be admitted that it was not always the mere erudition of the average Muslim scholar of the time that he admired.

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    It seemed to Tyab Ali that, as long as his family spoke only Gujarati, they would remain Gujaratis; while if they spoke Urdu, they would become, in a sense, citizens of the whole country.

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    Tyab Ali' s plan of schooling his sons in their mother tongue, giving them a grounding in Arabic until they were ten or eleven years old before exposing them to English studies, was something of which modern educationists would have approved.

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    It is true that a fluent command of English was of great worldly advantage it opened the door to success and prosperity, but there is no doubt that Tyab Ali had much more than this in mind when he insisted on his sons acquiring an English education.

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    Of course it is true that many Indian families today too find themselves, almost without any conscious intention, using English instead of their actual mother tongue, and it might seem that Tyab Ali' s switch over to Urdu was not harder than our switch over to English.

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    However, the change did have its desired effect, because in time to come, all Tyab Ali' s sons and grandsons always thought of themselves primarily as citizens of India, and only secondarily as members of any religious or regional group- Many of Tyab Ali' s traits were imbibed by his son Badruddin, who was to become an important figure in Indian public life.

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