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The British conquest of Sindh was a successful British military campaign and conquest of Sindh into the British India from the rule of the Talpurs.The East India Company, supported by the British Army and Royal Navy, in India oversaw the campaign between February and March of 1843—two major battles were fought namely Battle of Hyderabad and Battle of Miani.
Commissioner in Sindh was the Chief Officer of province at that time therefore Commissioner Office was entrusted with the responsibility to collect all important records. The records since 1820 onward were preserved at record room. The Commissioner's Record Branch was originally located in a bungalow situated within the cantonment limits.
Sindh came to be at the forefront of the Khilafat Movement. [109] Although Sindh had a cleaner record of communal harmony than other parts of India, the province's Muslim elite and emerging Muslim middle class demanded separation of Sindh from Bombay Presidency as a safeguard for their own interests.
In 1839, British Invaded the Sind. On 1843's annexation Sind was merged into Bombay Presidency and form a division of Bombay Presidency.. Districts and Divisions were both introduced in Sind as administrative units by the British when Sind became a part of British India, and ever since then, they have formed an integral part in the civil administration of the Sind.
Estimates of the total Sindhi population in the UK range from 15,000 to 30,000. [2] [3] According to Ethnologue, there are over 25,000 Sindhi-speakers in the country. [4]Some Sindhis are notable businesspeople, such as Sonu Shivdasani and the Hinduja family. [5]
Sind (sometimes called Scinde, Sindhi: سنڌ ) was a province of British India from 1 April 1936 to 1947 and Dominion of Pakistan from 14 August 1947 to 14 October 1955. . Under the British, it encompassed the current territorial limits excluding the princely state of Khairp
Raja Dahir of Sindh had refused to return Arab rebels from Sindh [6] [7] and Meds and others. [8] Med pirates shipping from their bases at Kutch , Debal and Kathiawar [ 8 ] during one of their raids had kidnapped Muslim women traveling from Sri Lanka to Arabia , thus providing a casus belli [ 8 ] [ 9 ] against Sindhi King Dahir . [ 10 ]
Kokoda is a station town in the Oro Province of Papua New Guinea. It is famous as the northern end of the Kokoda Track , site of the eponymous Kokoda Track campaign of World War II . In that campaign, it had strategic significance because it had the only airfield along the Track.