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  2. Sindhis - Wikipedia

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    In Pakistan, Sindhi is the first language of 30.26 million people, or 14.6% of the country's population as of the 2017 census. 29.5 million of these are found in Sindh, where they account for 62% of the total population of the province.

  3. History of Sindh - Wikipedia

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    The Talpur dynasty (Sindhi: ٽالپردور‎; Urdu: سلسله تالپور‎) succeeded the Kalhoras in 1783 and four branches of the dynasty were established. [99] One ruled lower Sindh from the city of Hyderabad , another ruled over upper Sindh from the city of Khairpur , a third ruled around the eastern city of Mirpur Khas , and a ...

  4. Culture of Sindh - Wikipedia

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    The roots of Sindhi culture go back to the distant past. Archaeological research during the 19th and 20th centuries showed the roots of social life, religion, and culture of the people of the Sindh: their agricultural practises, traditional arts and crafts, customs and traditions, and other parts of social life, going back to a mature Indus Valley Civilization of the third millennium BC.

  5. List of Sindhi tribes - Wikipedia

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    Most Sindhi tribes, clans and surnames are a modified form of a patronymic and typically end with the suffix - ani, Ja/Jo, or Potra/Pota, which is used to denote descent from a common male ancestor. One explanation states that the -ani suffix is a Sindhi variant of 'anshi', derived from the Sanskrit word 'ansh', which means 'descended from'. [9 ...

  6. Sindh - Wikipedia

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    Sindh (/ ˈ s ɪ n d / SIND; Sindhi: سِنْڌ ‎; Urdu: سِنْدھ, pronounced; abbr. SD, historically romanized as Sind) is a province of Pakistan.Located in the southeastern region of the country, Sindh is the third-largest province of Pakistan by land area and the second-largest province by population after Punjab.

  7. Ethnic groups in Pakistan - Wikipedia

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    The Sindhis are an Indo-Aryan ethnolinguistic group who speak the Sindhi language and are native to the Sindh province of Pakistan. Sindhis are predominantly Muslim , but have a minority Hindu population, making up the largest Hindu minority population in Pakistan. [ 19 ]

  8. Pathans of Sindh - Wikipedia

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    Sindhi Pathan (Sindhi: پٺاڻ) or Pathans in Sindh are the name of ancestral Pashtun communities living in Sindh for centuries that have adopted the norms and culture of Sindh. Many bear the tribes Tareen, Naghar, Agha, and Kakar. The vast majority of Sindhi Pathans originate from Quetta and southern Afghanistan, and a few come from Khyber ...

  9. List of Pakistani family names - Wikipedia

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    The following are some of the tribal names in Pakistan. Naming system Pakistani surnames are divided into three categories: Islamic naming convention , cultural names and ancestral names.