Raza Hyder’s name is an allusion to the despotic “maharaja”(king) of Mysore, Hyder Ali who ruled over the south Indian state of present-day Karnataka, and also refers more generally to the British rule.
Iskandar Harappa - The surname ‘Harappa’ glosses the archaeological site of the ‘Harappan
civilization that borders Bhutto’s family estate in the Sind province and is a ‘subtle reference to Bhutto’s reign of terror’.
‘Iskander’ alludes to ‘Alexander the Great’, a figure both powerful and profligate who ‘invaded the part of India that is now Pakistan in 326 BC’, but it also refers to ‘the real-life ex-major-general Iskander Mirza’ as a way of casting aspersions on Bhutto’s democratic credentials.
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