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Most Hindus in Belize today are Sindhi Hindus with few of the original descendants of the Indian indentured laborers retaining Hinduism and Islam. [9] In 1907, the Canadian Government made an unsuccessful attempt to transfer Indian independence activists residing in the province of British Columbia to Belize (then known as British Honduras). A ...
The Sindhi diaspora (Sindhi: ٻاهري ملڪي سنڌي) consists of Sindhi people who have emigrated from the historical Sindh province of British India, [1] as well as the modern Sindh province of Pakistan, [2] to other countries and regions of the world, as well as their descendants.
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.
The following is a list of notable Sindhi people who have origins in the Sindh province. [ 1 ] This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
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 ...
Sindhi [156] is an Indo-Aryan language spoken by about 30 million people in the Pakistani province of Sindh, where it has official institutional status and has plans to being promoted further. [157] It is also spoken by a further 4.8 million people in India, where it is a scheduled language , without any state-level official status.
B. Sunny Balwani; Battle of Chelhar; Battle of Talti; Bawarij; Qadir Bux Bedil; Mirza Qaleech Baig; Muhammad Mohsin Bekas; Tajal Bewas; Bhagat Kanwar Ram; Mai Bhagi
Belizeans are people associated with the country of Belize through citizenship or descent. Belize is a multiethnic country with residents of Ethnic groups of Amerindian, African, European, Asian and Middle-eastern descent or mixed race with any combination of those groups.